notebooklm-setup

notebooklm-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robinsadeghpour/content-workflow. It costs 87 tokens per session (789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a new machine by installing pipx, notebooklm-py, Playwright Chromium, and the /notebooklm skill.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of installing the command-line tool, browser support, login dependencies, and Claude Code integration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robinsadeghpour/content-workflow/notebooklm-setup
Any agent
npx skills add robinsadeghpour/content-workflow --skill notebooklm-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robinsadeghpour/content-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 789 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00087 $0.00789
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4505dcf627f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

  1. 4d 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 (55 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 789 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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