youtube-transcript

youtube-transcript is a skill for Claude Code from saajunaid/caddis-plugin. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,320 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for downloading transcripts or captions from YouTube videos when you provide a YouTube link. A transcript is the written version of the spoken content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch YouTube transcripts for research, notes, summaries, or content preparation.
Why use it?
It saves you from transcribing a video by hand and gives you text that can be searched or reused.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to fetch YouTube transcripts for research, notes, summaries, or content preparation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript
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 saajunaid/caddis-plugin --skill youtube-transcript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saajunaid/caddis-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for youtube-transcript

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for youtube-transcript

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saajunaid/caddis-plugin/youtube-transcript.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.03320
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01328
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00664
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00332

Measured 1mo ago against content hash db5552609817, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

youtube-transcript scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y yt-dlp
.github/skills/media/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md · 417 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed MIT

The repository is licensed MIT, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 417 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B db5552609817

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository saajunaid/caddis-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,320 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.