What is notebooklm-setup?

A setup tool for installing notebooklm-py, an unofficial command-line interface for Google NotebookLM, and connecting it to Claude Code.

It helps prepare a new machine by installing pipx, notebooklm-py, Playwright Chromium, and the /notebooklm skill.

It removes the manual work of installing the command-line tool, browser support, login dependencies, and Claude Code integration.

How robinsadeghpour/content-workflow configures Claude Code

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Borrowing it

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Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robinsadeghpour/content-workflow/main/.claude/skills/notebooklm-setup/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robinsadeghpour/content-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 789 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00087	$0.00789
Opus 5.5	$0.00035	$0.00316
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00158
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00079

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4505dcf627f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/notebooklm-setup/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Setup

Install notebooklm-py — an unofficial Python CLI for Google NotebookLM — and register its Claude Code skill.

What gets installed

Component	Purpose
pipx	Isolated Python app installer (if not already present)
notebooklm-py	CLI for NotebookLM (`notebooklm` command)
Playwright chromium	Headless browser used for Google OAuth login
Claude Code skill	`~/.claude/skills/notebooklm/SKILL.md` — enables `/notebooklm` and natural language automation

Setup steps

Run each step in order. Check the output before proceeding — if a step fails, troubleshoot before continuing.

1. Install pipx

pipx manages Python CLI tools in isolated virtual environments, avoiding conflicts with system Python.

which pipx || brew install pipx

If Homebrew isn't available, fall back to python3 -m pip install --user pipx.

2. Install notebooklm-py

The [browser] extra pulls in Playwright, which is needed for the login flow.

pipx install "notebooklm-py[browser]"

If already installed, upgrade instead:

pipx upgrade notebooklm-py

Verify the CLI is available:

notebooklm --version

3. Install Playwright chromium

Playwright needs its own bundled Chromium binary. Install it inside the notebooklm-py virtualenv:

~/.local/pipx/venvs/notebooklm-py/bin/playwright install chromium

On Linux, you may also need system dependencies: playwright install-deps chromium.

4. Install the Claude Code skill

This copies the skill file into ~/.claude/skills/notebooklm/:

notebooklm skill install

5. Authenticate with Google

This step requires user interaction — a browser window opens for Google OAuth. Tell the user to run this themselves:

notebooklm login

After login, verify auth works:

notebooklm auth check

Troubleshooting

Problem	Fix
`externally-managed-environment` error from pip	Use pipx instead of pip
`playwright: command not found`	Use the full venv path: `~/.local/pipx/venvs/notebooklm-py/bin/playwright`
Auth errors after setup	Re-run `notebooklm login`
Skill not showing in Claude Code	Re-run `notebooklm skill install`, then restart Claude Code session
`notebooklm: command not found` after pipx install	Run `pipx ensurepath` and restart your shell

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 4505dcf627f2

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notebooklm-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository robinsadeghpour/content-workflow (54 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 789 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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