notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code from roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for asking questions of Google NotebookLM notebooks, which contain documents uploaded by the user, and managing their sources and generated materials. Answers are limited to notebook sources and include citations to the passages used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query notebooks and manage sources or generated reports, audio, videos, presentations, tables, flashcards, quizzes, and mind maps.
Why use it?
It helps produce traceable answers grounded in a defined collection of documents instead of relying on general web knowledge or unsupported recollection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the notebooklm plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to query notebooks and manage sources or generated reports, audio, videos, presentations, tables, flashcards, quizzes, and mind maps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/notebooklm
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.

Any agent
npx skills add roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp --skill notebooklm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install notebooklm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,067 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00118 $0.01067
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00534
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00107

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8921fc61ca50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/nblm.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/notebooklm/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM

Overview

NotebookLM answers questions only from the sources uploaded to a notebook, with inline citations to the exact passages used — no open-web knowledge, so answers are hallucination-resistant and fully traceable. This skill drives the @roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp engine to query notebooks, manage sources, and generate Studio content, and encodes the patterns that make NotebookLM usable at research scale (citation formats, the ~50-queries/day quota, batch-to-cache).

Choosing the transport

Two ways reach the same engine — pick per what the session already has:

  1. notebooklm MCP tools — if tools such as notebook_ask / source_add / server_health (or mcp__notebooklm__*) are available in the session, call them directly. This is the preferred path and needs no server.
  2. HTTP REST API — otherwise, use the bundled scripts/nblm.sh, which talks to a running NotebookLM MCP server (default http://localhost:3000, override with NOTEBOOKLM_SERVER_URL). If no server is reachable, ask the user to start one (npm run start:http from a clone) or to install the MCP.

Both are backed by the same account and session, so the choice is purely about which is already wired up.

Prerequisite: one Google login

NotebookLM needs a signed-in Google session (saved once, reused across runs). Verify with nblm.sh health (or the server_health tool) — look for authenticated: true. If not authenticated, run the interactive login in a terminal (a visible Chrome window opens):

notebooklm-mcp-setup-auth          # global install
# or:  scripts/nblm.sh auth

Run the login in a terminal rather than through an in-client tool: interactive Google login can take minutes and a stdio client's tool-call timeout may cut it off.

Core tasks

Use scripts/nblm.sh for the REST path (or the equivalent MCP tool):

scripts/nblm.sh health                       # reachability + auth status
scripts/nblm.sh notebooks                     # list notebooks (id + name)
scripts/nblm.sh ask "<question>" <notebook_id>   # citation-backed answer (JSON citations)
scripts/nblm.sh generate <notebook_id> report   # audio|report|video|infographic|presentation|data_table|flashcards|quiz|mind_map

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 91 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 8921fc61ca50

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notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp (174 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,067 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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