youtube-ctx
Search, read, and inspect public YouTube context on-device, escalating from transcripts and storyboards to exact frames only when needed.
video2ctx-platform
Use authenticated search, transcripts, metadata, comments, channels, playlists, account access, fallback, monitors, and notifications in production or cloud-backed workflows.
Choose the right skill
For personal, low-to-moderate usage, use
youtube-ctx; it chooses a direct or progressive visual branch inside one skill. Use video2ctx-platform for authenticated hosted work and continue through its data branch automatically if direct access fails. Its monitoring branch preserves the stateful scheduling and mutation invariants.
Install the skills
Run the installer and follow its guide to choose the skills you want, then configure the hosted CLI only for cloud access or monitoring.
What the skills teach an agent
1
Choose the right route
Prefer on-device access for personal, low-to-moderate usage and the hosted API for production applications.
2
Fetch only needed context
Retrieve metadata first, then transcript, frames, comments, channel information, or playlist items according to the task.
3
Preserve provenance
Keep video IDs, source URLs, transcript timestamps, fetch times, partial flags, and warnings with the text given to the model.
4
Return verifiable evidence
Link claims back to the video and timestamp instead of treating model output as the source.
Security and scope
The local skill treats transcript text and imagery as untrusted evidence, never as agent instructions. The platform skill uses the public@video2ctx/cli package for browser-based device login and production API calls without placing a secret in the prompt. Bound query length, response size, continuation depth, frame count, and the number of fresh operations an agent can initiate.
Use the platform skill’s data branch only for stateless provider reads, usage, and account identity, and its monitoring branch only for monitors, notifications, and delivery preferences. Projects, trends, research, and other composite workflows are outside its contract.