What is youtube-video-research?

A research workflow for public YouTube videos using video details, transcripts, related videos, and channel information. It separates recorded facts from transcript statements and the researcher's own conclusions.

Writing briefs and summaries, extracting facts and timed moments, studying video formats, and making evidence-backed comparisons.

It collects the relevant parts of a video and its context in one workflow, so you do not have to inspect each source separately.

youtube-video-research — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by tubealfred

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 tubealfred/mcp --skill youtube-video-research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tubealfred/mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 497 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00046	$0.00497
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00199
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00099
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00050

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c48f320f08db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-video-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 2mo 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-video-research/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube video research with TubeAlfred

Use the hosted read-only MCP server at https://mcp.tubealfred.com/. Authenticate through OAuth when the client supports it, or use a TubeAlfred API key in a developer MCP client. TubeAlfred never modifies the user's YouTube account.

Choose the smallest useful workflow

If the user supplied an unfamiliar YouTube URL, call youtube_url_resolve before selecting another tool.
Call youtube_video_get for title, description, channel identity, publication time, duration, and public engagement metadata.
Call youtube_video_transcript only when the task needs spoken content, quotations, timestamps, claims, chapters, or a content outline.
Call youtube_related_videos only when the user asks for competitors, adjacent topics, recommendation context, or follow-up ideas.
Call youtube_channel_get only when channel-level context changes the answer.

Do not use the deprecated youtube_video_transcript_full compatibility alias for new work.

Evidence discipline

Separate video metadata from transcript statements and your own inference.
Preserve transcript timestamps when citing a moment.
State clearly when captions are unavailable, incomplete, translated, or auto-generated.
Do not infer private analytics, revenue, audience identity, viewer journeys, or YouTube Studio retention from public data.
Do not describe a missing transcript as a tool failure when TubeAlfred reports an unavailable-data outcome.

Pagination and retries

Related-video pages can return continuation tokens. Fetch another page only when the user's requested breadth requires it. Respect Retry-After on rate limits and transient failures. TubeAlfred tools are read-only, but repeated successful calls can still consume credits, so avoid speculative calls and duplicate retries.

Recommended output

Return a concise answer with:

the video and channel identity;
the evidence used, including transcript timestamps when applicable;
the requested summary, brief, comparison, or extracted facts;
any unavailable data or uncertainty;
a short source list naming each TubeAlfred tool used.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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.

2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A c48f320f08db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-video-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tubealfred/mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 497 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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