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Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and

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Claude Code

$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill youtube --agent claude-code

SKILL.md

youtube.SKILL.md
name: youtube
description: "Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation."
version: "1.0.0"
metadata:
  author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>

YouTube

Purpose

Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.

Routing

  • Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
  • Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
  • Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns
  • Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the youtube skill for this request.
  • Help me with youtube.
  • User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts
  • YouTube: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files
  • Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside youtube scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description | | ---- | ------ | -------- | ----------------------------- | | url | string | No | YouTube video URL or video ID |

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../youtube.json`.
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