extract-wisdom

A process for extracting useful ideas and practical lessons from videos, articles, blog posts, or text files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding key ideas, advice, and actionable conclusions in supplied content.
Why use it?
It turns long source material into focused takeaways without losing the main insights.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/sammcj/agentic-coding/extract-wisdom
Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill extract-wisdom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,025 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 $0.00043 $0.04025
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02013
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00805
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00402

Measured yesterday against content hash 7112cd255fef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extract-wisdom 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/transcribe.py, scripts/wisdom.py), 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/extract-wisdom/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wisdom Extraction

Script paths below use ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} to refer to this skill's directory. Default location for Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/extract-wisdom/

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Source and Acquire Content

Determine the source type and read the corresponding reference file:

  • YouTube URL (contains youtube.com or youtu.be): Read references/source-youtube.md and follow its instructions.
  • Web URL or local file: Read references/source-web-text.md and follow its instructions.

After acquiring the source content, return here for Step 2. If the user provided additional instructions about the level of detail or focus areas, apply those throughout the analysis.

Step 2: Analyse and Extract Wisdom

IMPORTANT: Avoid signal dilution, context collapse, quality degradation and degraded reasoning for future understanding of the content. Keep the signal-to-noise ratio high. Preserve domain insights while excluding filler or fluff.

Perform analysis on the content, extracting:

1. Key Insights
  • Identify the main ideas, core concepts, and central arguments
  • Extract fundamental learnings and important revelations
  • Highlight expert advice, best practices, or recommendations
  • Note any surprising or counterintuitive information
  • Diagram(s) to explain complex relationships, workflows or concepts
2. Notable Quotes
  • Extract memorable, impactful, or particularly well-articulated statements
  • Include context for each quote when relevant
  • Focus on quotes that encapsulate key ideas or provide unique perspectives
  • If the content itself quotes other sources, ensure those quotes are also captured
  • If you are adding quotes do not add more than 3-5 quotes unless requested by the user
  • Preserve the original wording exactly, except correct American spellings to Australian English
3. Structured Summary
  • Create hierarchical organisation of content
  • Break down into logical sections or themes
  • Provide clear section headings that reflect content structure
  • Include high-level overview followed by detailed breakdowns
  • Note any important examples, case studies, or demonstrations

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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. yesterday First seen · 357 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 7112cd255fef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

extract-wisdom is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (158 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,025 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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