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youtube-transcribe-skill

Extract subtitles/transcripts from YouTube videos. Triggers: "youtube transcript", "extract subtitles", "video captions", "视频字幕", "字幕提取", "YouTube转文字", "提取字幕".

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Quality

91%

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

92%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A tightly written, highly actionable skill with clear sequencing and strong validation/feedback loops across its CLI and browser-automation paths. The main gap is structural: all content lives inline in SKILL.md with no progressive disclosure to offload the lengthy fallback path.

Suggestions

Move the Step 3 browser-automation fallback (including the JS extraction snippet) into a reference file such as references/browser-fallback.md, leaving a one-line pointer from Step 3 so SKILL.md stays a lean overview.

Consider extracting the VTT/SRT-to-plain-text conversion logic (Step 2.4) into a small script under scripts/ and invoking it, which would both shorten the body and make the conversion reproducible.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean and command-driven with no over-explanation of concepts Claude already knows; the few prose lines (BUFFERING retry rationale, the JS-vs-snapshot justification) each earn their place rather than padding.

3 / 3

Actionability

It provides complete, copy-paste-ready yt-dlp commands with flags, a fully executable JavaScript DOM-extraction function, and specific named Chrome DevTools MCP tool calls.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps are clearly sequenced (Step 1-3 with sub-steps) and include explicit validation checkpoints: tool-availability checks, exit-code branching, BUFFERING retry up to 3 attempts, and a CLI-to-browser fallback feedback loop.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The ~115-line skill is entirely inline with no external references and exceeds the 50-line simple-skill exemption; the detailed browser-automation fallback (Step 3) and the JS snippet could be split into a reference file to keep SKILL.md an overview. It is not a 1 because sections are well-organized with no nested references.

2 / 3

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Passed

Description

90%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A concise, well-targeted description that clearly states its single capability and supplies explicit bilingual trigger terms. Its only limitation is naming one action rather than enumerating multiple concrete capabilities.

Suggestions

Optionally enumerate a second concrete action (e.g., '...and save them as timestamped text files') to lift specificity from a single named action to multiple.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain (YouTube videos) and one concrete action ('Extract subtitles/transcripts'), matching the 'names domain and some actions' anchor; it is not a 3 because only a single action is listed rather than multiple specific concrete actions.

2 / 3

Completeness

It states what the skill does ('Extract subtitles/transcripts from YouTube videos') and provides explicit when-guidance via a 'Triggers:' clause, satisfying both the what and when requirement; not capped at 2 because explicit trigger guidance is present.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Triggers:' list covers natural user phrasing in both English and Chinese ('youtube transcript', 'extract subtitles', 'video captions', '视频字幕', 'YouTube转文字'), giving good coverage of terms users would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The YouTube transcript niche with dedicated bilingual triggers is clearly distinguishable and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
feiskyer/claude-code-settings
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