youtube-topic-research SKILL.md skillA
youtube-topic-research from moonlight-lupin/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/youtube-topic-research@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- moonlight-lupin/agent-skills
- Path
research/youtube-topic-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 11,920 bytes
- Repository stars
- 119
- License
- MIT
Use when a topic is best explained by YouTube videos — find and summarize YouTube videos for topics where visual explanation, demos, tutorials, talks, walkthroughs, or screen recordings are useful. Can run standalone, or export transcript-backed video source notes into notebooklm-mode vaults for grounded research.
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 Topic Research Skill ## When to Use Use when the user wants to **find and summarize YouTube videos on a specific topic** — not when they already have a URL (use a transcript extraction skill for that). This skill searches, filters, fetches transcripts, and returns the top relevant videos with summaries. **Examples:** - "Find YouTube videos on Python async programming" - "Show me recent videos about LLM fine-tuning" - "What are the best tutorials for React Server Components?" - "Research this topic through YouTube, then build a vault" → feeder mode ## Two Modes ### Standalone mode (default) Search YouTube, fetch transcripts, rank videos, and return the top recommendations with summaries, freshness indicators, and watch/skip guidance. ### NotebookLM feeder mode After the user approves videos, save each selected video as a source file compatible with `notebooklm-mode`, including metadata, URL, transcript extracts, visual/demo notes, summary, and freshness status. **Trigger phrases for feeder mode:** - "add these to notebooklm" - "make a source vault from these videos" - "research this through YouTube first, then build a vault" - "use videos as sources" ```bash …
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How to install
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/youtube-topic-research@sha256:5896b004d183c16fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 44 days.
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | a776a92 | 11,920 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-13 | 090474f | 11,871 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-07-08 | 52f1cb9 | 11,855 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 (11920 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
moonlight-lupin/agent-skills · 119 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i5qcy747iplfabym GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/youtube-topic-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5896b004d183c16f3b9c9bb92d33afe4b2c81a684b79e08af2d95c2adadb68b5
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