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YouTube Watcher — measured AI agent skill | DecimalAI

gooseworks-ai/youtube-watcher

NewSkillScoreMaintained

Fetch and read transcripts from YouTube videos. Use when you need to summarize a video, answer questions about its content, or extract information from it.

researchby gooseworks-ai

Links this skill to your agents and keeps it current with the author’s updates.

Automatic

Research pack

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install decimalai

2 · Get the skill — writes .claude/skills/gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher/SKILL.md

decimalai skills pull gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher --out .claude/skills/

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/gooseworks-ai-youtube-watcher.json ↗

In productionGlobal

how this skill behaves on real traffic · last 30 days

No production data for this skill yet — usage numbers appear here once agents start running it.

Anonymized aggregate across every org using this skill — proof from real production use, not a demo.

Does this skill help? · Benchmark: with vs. withoutsign in to run this on your agents

22 test cases from the publisher’s eval.yaml · each run twice on gemini-3.6-flash — with the skill injected, then without · last run 5h ago

—-22% tokens0% turns27% of whole cases pass with skill (6/22)

Test case	Without → With	Effect	Δ tokens	Δ turns
case-19	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-70%	0%
case-04	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	-10%	0%
case-05	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	50%	0%
case-06	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	2%	0%
case-17	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	-64%	0%

Showing 5 of 22 cases

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

gooseworks-ai / goose-skills

skills/research-tools/capabilities/youtube-watcher/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 1 file · scripts

Skill contents

scripts/

SKILL.md

YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

Usage

Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Examples

Summarize a video:

Get the transcript:

bash python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

Get the transcript.
Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Notes

Requires yt-dlp to be installed and available in the PATH.
Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.
If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.

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