YouTube Notes

Turn a video into something citable. The bundled script does the mechanical work — fetching captions, aligning them to the uploader's chapters, merging caption slivers into readable blocks — so your job is synthesis and judgment.

Fetch

One TypeScript file, run directly by Node with no build step. The --help output is the authoritative flag reference:

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/youtube-notes/scripts/fetch_video.ts --help

It shells out to uvx for youtube-transcript-api (captions) and yt-dlp (metadata, chapters). Both run on demand; nothing is installed globally. If uvx is missing the script exits 2 and tells the user to brew install uv.