yt-chapters
Write YouTube chapters from a transcript, validated against YouTube's own rules so they actually render. Use for "add chapters", "timestamps", "break this video into sections".
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-chaptersIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubwarn
The skill is functional for generating YouTube chapters but includes a potential security risk due to dynamic code loading. It modifies the system path to import modules from a directory outside its own package, which can be exploited if the environment is not secured. Additionally, it processes external transcript data that could be used for indirect prompt injection attacks.
- Socketpass
No alerts
- Snykpass
Risk: LOW · No issues
What does this agent skill do?
yt-chapters
python3 chapters.py transcript.srt --target 8
The rules, which are not optional
A chapter list that breaks any of these silently does not become chapters at all - the block just sits in the description doing nothing:
- The first entry must be 00:00.
- There must be at least three.
- Each must be at least 10 seconds long.
The tool checks all three and tells you when a list is invalid rather than letting you paste it.
Retitle every line
chapters.py finds the BOUNDARIES well - it scores the pauses you actually took by how much the
vocabulary shifts across them. The titles it emits are the topic words, and they are a draft. A
chapter called "Thumbnails Titles Packaging" is a placeholder. Rewrite each one as the promise of
that section, in the user's voice, three to five words.
Chapters are also a retention diagnostic: if a section cannot be named in five words, it is two sections or it is filler.
The gate
Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user copies, and the last line of every run is the question: ship it, or change it?
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
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