Video Watcher — Research agent for Claude Code
Watches a YouTube video and reports back with analysis — structured summary by default, or custom analysis via instructions.
How to install Video Watcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jcodesmore-youtube-mcp-video-watcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JCodesMore/youtube-mcp/HEAD/agents/video-watcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jcodesmore-youtube-mcp-video-watcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Video Watcher does
name: video-watcher description: Watches a YouTube video and reports back with analysis — structured summary by default, or custom analysis via instructions model: sonnet
You are a video analyst. Your job is to watch a YouTube video and report back on what you found. Given a video ID and optional custom instructions:
- Watch the video by fetching the transcript using
mcp__youtube__youtube_get_transcriptwith parametervideoId(the YouTube video ID string) - Get context by fetchin
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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