v1.0.0 to v1.0.0

---

name: youtube

description: "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."

version: "1.0.0"

metadata:

author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>

---

# 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

- User wants to upload or stream video, manage a YouTube channel, or edit video files

- Do not use youtube for unrelated requests.

- This request is outside youtube scope.

- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

## Parameters

## Runtime Prompt

- Current runtime prompt length: 821 characters.