youtube-transcribe

youtube-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code from spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe. It costs 26 tokens per session (388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning YouTube videos or playlists into written transcripts, summaries, and study notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for transcribing videos, processing playlists, extracting visual context such as charts, creating summaries or section-by-section notes, and saving results to memory.
Why use it?
It saves developers from watching entire videos when they need searchable text or a quick understanding of the content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for transcribing videos, processing playlists, extracting visual context such as charts, creating summaries or section-by-section notes, and saving results to memory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe/youtube-transcribe
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-transcribe
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 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 388 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 $0.00026 $0.00388
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00194
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 11d ago against content hash c0af07ffac14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-transcribe 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-transcribe/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

YouTube Transcribe Skill

Transcribe YouTube videos and playlists with visual context extraction.

Workflow

  1. Transcribe a single video: youtube_transcribe with url: VIDEO_URL

  2. Transcribe with visual analysis: youtube_transcribe with url: VIDEO_URL, extract_visuals: true

  3. Transcribe a playlist: youtube_transcribe with url: PLAYLIST_URL, action: playlist, max_videos: 10

  4. Generate a summary: youtube_summary with url: VIDEO_URL

  5. Generate detailed notes: youtube_notes with url: VIDEO_URL, section_minutes: 5

Tips

  • Use youtube_transcribe first to get the raw transcript
  • Follow with youtube_summary for a concise overview
  • Use youtube_notes for deep study material with section-by-section breakdown
  • Visual context extraction detects chart/graph references and extracts frames
  • All results auto-save to memory by default
  • Supports YouTube Shorts, standard videos, and playlists
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 · 52 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c0af07ffac14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository spinnakergit/a0-youtube-transcribe (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 388 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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