youtube-chapters-tags SKILL.md skillA
youtube-chapters-tags from naveedharri/benai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/youtube-chapters-tags@git:20260916.a3b1e15Pins git:20260916.a3b1e15 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naveedharri/benai-skills
- Path
plugins/all-skills/skills/youtube-chapters-tags/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.a3b1e15, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 11, 2026
- Size
- 7,182 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Stage 4 of the Ben AI publishing chain. Generates chapters with accurate timestamps and a tag string for a Ben van Sprundel video. Pulls the timestamped transcript out of YouTube through Claude in Chrome, finds where each topic actually starts, names chapters to Ben's measured style, flags every outbound video reference that needs a description link, and builds the tag list from the pattern measured across Ben's last 15 published videos. Needs the video to be Unlisted first, because a Studio…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# YouTube Chapters and Tags
Stage 4. Two deliverables from one video, run independently so either can be asked for alone.
1. **Chapters**: `MM:SS – Title` for the description and YouTube's chapter UI.
2. **Tags**: a tag string matching the pattern measured across Ben's recent videos.
## Precondition: the video has to be Unlisted
A Studio draft has **no caption track**. No captions means no timestamped transcript means no
chapters. YouTube generates captions only after the video is saved at a real visibility and its
checks finish. Private does not work either.
So `youtube-studio-setup` runs first. If the video is still a draft, or Unlisted but not yet
captioned, say so plainly and stop. Do not fake chapters from the script, the Notion card, or
the outline. Every timestamp has to come from the transcript.
Check for captions before anything else:
```js
const h = await (await fetch('/watch?v=VIDEO_ID')).text();
h.includes('captionTracks')
```
False means come back later. It usually clears within the same session for a video under 20
minutes.
## Workflow A: chapters
### 1. Pull the timestamped transcript
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/youtube-chapters-tags@sha256:968fadd4aa4e2fd9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.a3b1e15, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 11, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260916.a3b1e15 latest | 2026-09-16 | a3b1e15 | 7,182 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.3860544 | 2026-09-11 | 3860544 | 7,151 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7182 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
naveedharri/benai-skills · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_axbnxny5w5my45nw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naveedharri/benai-skills/youtube-chapters-tags GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/968fadd4aa4e2fd9651965a79dc689eb4e0622cb33d668d919e831abb0e5b9c4
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.