youtube-research

youtube-research is a skill for Claude Code from spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe. It costs 24 tokens per session (365 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool for YouTube videos that turns video transcripts into summaries, detailed notes, or full text. It can also work through playlists, which are collections of videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study talks, tutorials, interviews, and other videos; create timestamped notes; inspect full transcripts; or research a playlist on a topic.
Why use it?
It saves you from watching or manually transcribing long videos when you only need their main points or specific details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to study talks, tutorials, interviews, and other videos; create timestamped notes; inspect full transcripts; or research a playlist on a topic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe/youtube-research
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 spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe --skill youtube-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 365 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.
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 $0.00024 $0.00365
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 11d ago against content hash 653abe277472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-research 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 11d 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.

skills/youtube-research/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

YouTube Research Skill

Use YouTube tools to extract knowledge from video content.

Workflow

  1. Quick summary of a video: youtube_summary with url: VIDEO_URL

  2. Detailed study notes with timestamps: youtube_notes with url: VIDEO_URL, section_minutes: 5

  3. Full transcript for deep analysis: youtube_transcribe with url: VIDEO_URL

  4. Research a playlist on a topic: youtube_transcribe with url: PLAYLIST_URL, action: playlist Then youtube_summary on each video of interest

Tips

  • Start with youtube_summary for a quick overview
  • Use youtube_notes with smaller section_minutes for more granular notes
  • Visual references (charts, graphs) are automatically detected and annotated
  • All content auto-saves to memory for future reference
  • Chain tools: transcribe first, then summarize or generate notes from the transcript
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. 11d ago First seen · 50 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 653abe277472

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 365 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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