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youtube-transcribe

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Transcribe a YouTube video and do something with the transcript. Wraps youtube-to-signal. Use when a YouTube URL appears and the user wants to work with its content — summarize, analyze, extract quotes, review, or anything else.

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 7 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 2

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 1

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Read the resulting transcript file from /tmp/youtube-transcribe/ (it will be the most recently created .md file there).

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  2. Distinctive:

    If the caller provided instructions beyond the URL, follow them — the transcript is now in your context.

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  3. Distinctive:

    If no instructions were provided, present a brief summary of the video (title, channel, duration) and ask what the user wants to do with …

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 7 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

YouTube Transcribe

Transcribe a YouTube video, then follow the caller's instructions for what to do with the transcript.

Usage

/youtube-transcribe <youtube-url> [instructions for what to do with the transcript]

Workflow

1. Transcribe

Extract the URL from the arguments. Run:

~/.local/bin/youtube-to-signal "<url>" --model small --output-dir /tmp/youtube-transcribe

This downloads the audio, transcribes via Whisper, and saves a markdown file to /tmp/youtube-transcribe/.

Read the resulting transcript file from /tmp/youtube-transcribe/ (it will be the most recently created .md file there).

2. Follow Instructions

If the caller provided instructions beyond the URL, follow them — the transcript is now in your context. Summarize, analyze, extract, review, whatever was asked.

If no instructions were provided, present a brief summary of the video (title, channel, duration) and ask what the user wants to do with the transcript.

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