video-digest

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · media · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Transcript, links and repository-applicability recommendations from one public YouTube or X (Twitter) video. Use when the user gives a youtube.com, youtu.be, x.com or twitter.com video URL or asks to watch or digest a video or talk, to fetch only its transcript, to queue videos for later, or to resume a digest. Auth-walled courses go to /knowledge:course-digest.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 10 places.

plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 111node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/video-digest/extraction/run.mjs" --data-dir "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" transcript/run-transcript.js "<url>"
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 138node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/video-digest/extraction/run.mjs" --data-dir "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" acquisition/preflight-metadata.js "<url>" ["<url>"...]
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 160node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/video-digest/extraction/run.mjs" --data-dir "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" watch/run-watch.js "<url>" [--skip-research] [--target <r

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plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 207node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/video-digest/extraction/run.mjs" --data-dir "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" watch/run-resume.js "<slice-slug>"
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 350uv venv <dir> --python 3.13 # prereq-ok: user-run recipe; the skill never runs uv
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/scripts/build-menu-view.test.sh, line 24import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/scripts/build-menu-view.test.sh, line 84const cli = spawnSync(process.execPath, [builderPath], { input: JSON.stringify(model), encoding: "utf8" });
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/scripts/build-menu-view.test.sh, line 86check("invalid JSON exits 2", spawnSync(process.execPath, [builderPath], { input: "{", encoding: "utf8" }).status === 2);
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/scripts/build-menu-view.test.sh, line 88check("--check accepts a builder page", spawnSync(process.execPath, [builderPath, "--check", `${work}/page.html`]).status === 0);
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/scripts/build-menu-view.test.sh, line 90check("--check flags a hand-written page", spawnSync(process.execPath, [builderPath, "--check", `${work}/hand.html`]).status === 1);

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 5 places.

plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 288(Windows), `brew install yt-dlp` (macOS), `pip install -U "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"` or
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 344**Faster-whisper install recipe.** A default Python that refuses `pip install --user` (PEP 668,
plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/SKILL.md, line 351uv pip install --python <dir> faster-whisper nvidia-cublas-cu12 nvidia-cudnn-cu12 "av<19" # prereq-ok: user-run recipe; the skill never runs uv

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plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/extraction/transcript/proper-noun-repair.test.js, line 13"Claude Code now ships MySkills — run npx via the CLI, model large-v3, by @anthropic #DevTools",
plugins/knowledge/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, line 77"description": "Path to the Python interpreter that imports faster_whisper, probed before python, python3 and py on PATH (video-digest's optional ASR rung). Use

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 1 place.

plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest/extraction/harvesting/fetch-deck-attachments.test.js, line 23const fetchTransport = (url, address) => fetch(url, { redirect: "manual", address });

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (media) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'video-digest' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'video-digest' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named video-digest already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/knowledge/skills/video-digest' ~/.agents/skills/'video-digest' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'video-digest' ~/.claude/skills/'video-digest' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`677e798`	77
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	82