YouTube Skills for AI Agents 🎬

Drop-in skills that let a coding or chat agent pull YouTube transcripts, run searches, walk channels and export whole playlists.

An Agent Skill is a folder of instructions an agent loads when the task matches. The 12 skills in this repo cover YouTube end to end. Each one names its endpoint, shows the exact request, lists every parameter with defaults and limits, and maps every error code to a recovery, so the agent makes the right call on the first try instead of guessing. No yt-dlp, no headless browser, no Google Cloud project. One HTTPS request per answer.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Cline, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and anything else that reads the Agent Skills format.

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⚡ Quick start

npx skills add artemchuikin/youtube-skills --skill youtube-full

Then ask the agent something it previously had to refuse.

What does this talk actually claim? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The first run also takes care of the API key, without leaving the chat. The agent asks for your email, a 6-digit code arrives in your inbox, you read it back, and a fresh sk_ key lands in your shell or agent config. The account behind it is free, starts with 100 credits and never asks for a card.

Other install paths

Hermes Agent

hermes skills install skills-sh/artemchuikin/youtube-skills/skills/youtube-full

All 12 skills at once

npx skills add artemchuikin/youtube-skills

Manual (git clone)

git clone https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-skills.git
cp -r youtube-skills/skills/youtube-full ~/.claude/skills/

OpenClaw (ClawdBot/Moltbot). Copy a folder from clawhub/ into your skills directory. The clawhub/ tree carries the same 12 skills with bash-style examples.

No terminal at all. Paste this into the agent and let it do the work.

Install the youtube skills from this GitHub repo: https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-skills
I want to get YouTube transcripts, search YouTube, and browse channel videos from my agent.
Set everything up for me.

Installing skills and creating the API key are both things these skills teach the agent to do.

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💬 What you can ask

Every row is something you can say to the agent word for word. The skill turns it into the right API call.

Ask for	For example
A transcript	"What does this video actually say? [URL]"
A summary or quote	"Pull the three strongest quotes from this talk"
Subtitles as files	"Export this video's subtitles as SRT"
A YouTube search	"Find recent talks about Rust async and pick the best three"
A channel's news	"Anything new on @kurzgesagt this week?"
A channel's catalogue	"List everything @3blue1brown has ever uploaded"
Search inside a channel	"Find every Fireship video that mentions Postgres"
A whole playlist	"Turn this lecture course into study notes"
A bulk export	"Queue transcripts for all 800 videos on this channel"
RAG-ready chunks	"Fetch this playlist's transcripts in ~1000-character segments for my index"

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🧰 Which skill to install