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youtube from cowork-os/cowork-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cowork-os/cowork-os/youtube@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cowork-os/cowork-os
- Path
resources/skills/youtube/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 24, 2026
- Size
- 2,102 bytes
- Repository stars
- 496
- License
- MIT
Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation.
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 ## Purpose Fetch transcripts, metadata, and captions from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, extract key points, compare videos, or pull quotes with timestamps. Supports auto-generated and manual captions, multiple languages, and translation. ## Routing - Use when: User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts - Do not use when: User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files - Outputs: Video transcripts with timestamps, summaries, key quotes, metadata, chapter breakdowns - Success criteria: User receives accurate transcript content with timestamps and clear formatting ## Trigger Examples ### Positive - Use the youtube skill for this request. - Help me with youtube. - User shares a YouTube link, asks to summarize a video, wants to know what a video says, asks to extract information from a YouTube video, or needs video transcripts - YouTube: provide an actionable result. ### Negative …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cowork-os/cowork-os/youtube@sha256:6347322d56646486The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qvltys2wmeuef47v)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Feb 24, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 69 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-19 | 832b400 | 2,102 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-20 | 5431817 | 2,033 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260228.c985184 | 2026-02-28 | c985184 | 1,950 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260224.ba2317e | 2026-02-24 | ba2317e | 6,774 B | B | 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 (2102 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
cowork-os/cowork-os · 496 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qvltys2wmeuef47v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cowork-os/cowork-os/youtube GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6347322d5664648681e16306c9f7ab5ea5c89c10f36171cfb7cdfbb51e31f2c9
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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.
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