YouTube Skills: skill pack for Hermes Agent

YouTube transcript, search, channel and playlist skills for agents including Hermes Agent and OpenClaw

What YouTube Skills does

The pack includes a combined youtube-full skill plus smaller focused skills such as transcript, youtube-search, youtube-channels and youtube-playlist. The README recommends youtube-full for most people and the smaller skills for those who want a smaller context for specific tasks. Requests go to TranscriptAPI, and the README says this avoids yt-dlp, headless browsers and extra binaries.

For Hermes Agent the README gives a hermes skills install command that pulls youtube-full from a skills-sh path. On first use the agent can register a free TranscriptAPI key by asking for your email address and an OTP code. In Hermes the key is stored in the Hermes secret store, with TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY declared through required_environment_variables in the skill frontmatter. Example tasks include summarizing a video from its URL, listing a playlist, getting captions in another language and checking a channel's recent uploads.

Key features

Fetches video transcripts with timestamps
Searches YouTube for videos and channels
Browses channel uploads and resolves @handles
Extracts every video in a playlist
Installs as one combined skill, as focused skills, or all 12 at once with npx skills add

When to use it

Summarizing a YouTube video by pasting its URL into a chat
Researching a topic by finding and summarizing several videos
Checking what a channel has posted recently

Who it is for: People who want their agent to read YouTube content without setting up scrapers or browsers.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It supports Hermes Agent among several runtimes, with a dedicated Hermes install command and secret-store handling for the API key.

How to install YouTube Skills

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

hermes skills install skills-sh/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/skills/youtube-full

Requirements: A TranscriptAPI key (free tier with 100 credits on signup, no credit card), exposed as TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY

Note: It depends on the third-party TranscriptAPI service, and the free tier gives 100 credits on signup.

FAQ

What is YouTube Skills?

YouTube Skills is a set of 12 agent skills for YouTube transcripts, video search, channel browsing and playlist extraction. It calls the TranscriptAPI service instead of running yt-dlp or a browser.

Does YouTube Skills work with Hermes Agent?

Yes, the README lists Hermes Agent as a supported runtime and provides a hermes skills install command for the youtube-full skill. The API key is kept in the Hermes secret store.

How do I install YouTube Skills?

On Hermes Agent, run hermes skills install skills-sh/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/skills/youtube-full. Other agents use npx skills add ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills.