nlm-skill

Expert guide for the Gemini Notebook (formerly Google NotebookLM) CLI (`nlm`) and MCP server - interfaces for Gemini Notebook. Use this skill when users want to interact with Gemini Notebook programmatically, including: creating/managing notebooks, adding sources (URLs, YouTube, text, Google Drive), generating content (podcasts, reports, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, slides, infographics, videos, data tables), conducting research, chatting with sources, or automating Gemini Notebook workflows. Triggers on mentions of "nlm", "notebooklm", "Gemini Notebook", "podcast generation", "audio overview", "refactor document", "critique draft", or any Gemini Notebook-related automation task.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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

The body is highly actionable and well-structured with strong workflows and excellent progressive disclosure into verified reference files. Its main weakness is conciseness: the length and repetition of safety/status reminders push it below the lean anchor.

Suggestions

Consolidate repeated auth-status definitions and REPL ('nlm chat start') warnings into a single authoritative section and reference it, rather than restating each in multiple categories.

Trim verb-first alias callouts to one summary line per command group instead of repeating both 'source rename' and 'rename source' forms throughout.

Move the long server-configuration / conversation-cache env-var tables (section 16) into a dedicated reference file, keeping only the essentials inline.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient command tables and code blocks, but at ~980 lines it carries notable repetition (auth-status explanations, REPL warnings, and verb-first aliases each restated several times) and some prose that restates upstream behavior, fitting the 'could be tightened' anchor rather than the lean one.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides extensive copy-paste-ready nlm CLI commands with concrete flags, MCP tool call examples, and a per-artifact options table — fully executable guidance covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A decision tree plus numbered Common Patterns give a clear sequence, and destructive/batch operations have explicit validation checkpoints (ALWAYS ASK USER BEFORE DELETE, --confirm gates, poll studio_status) with feedback loops for error recovery.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references — six real reference files (studio-prompting-guide, studio-prompt-examples, command_reference, troubleshooting, workflows, remote-mcp) confirmed present and listed in an Advanced Reference section — with bulk detail appropriately split out.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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

The description is strong across all dimensions: it states concrete capabilities, provides explicit 'when to use' guidance with natural trigger terms, and occupies a distinct niche. It is dense but every clause carries useful trigger or capability information.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists many concrete actions across the domain — creating/managing notebooks, adding sources (URLs/YouTube/text/Drive), generating podcasts/reports/quizzes/flashcards/mind maps/slides/infographics/videos/data tables, research, and chatting — giving comprehensive coverage rather than vague abstraction.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (CLI and MCP interfaces for Gemini Notebook with enumerated capabilities) and 'when' ('Use this skill when users want to interact with Gemini Notebook programmatically') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural user-facing terms and product-name synonyms — 'nlm', 'notebooklm', 'Gemini Notebook', 'podcast generation', 'audio overview', 'refactor document', 'critique draft' — covering the ways users actually phrase these requests.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Targets a clear, product-specific niche (the nlm CLI / Gemini Notebook MCP server) with distinct triggers, so it is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

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

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (983 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: jacob-bd/notebooklm-mcp-cli
Path: src/notebooklm_tools/data/SKILL.md
Commit: 42634c3

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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