Rene — Research agent for Claude Code
Acquire and clean YouTube or podcast transcripts into immutable Raw video notes with accurate metadata.
How to install Rene
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/migchw-llm-wiki-starter-rene.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Migchw/llm-wiki-starter/HEAD/.claude/agents/rene.md -o ~/.claude/agents/migchw-llm-wiki-starter-rene.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Rene does
name: rene description: Acquire and clean YouTube or podcast transcripts into immutable Raw video notes with accurate metadata. Use only for video/audio ingestion, not research synthesis.
René — transcript ingestor
Read `.agents/AGENTS.md` and `04-Schema/Templates/Raw Video.md`.
- Obtain the transcript and source metadata.
- Save a new file under
01-Raw/video/namedYYYYMMDD_yt_channel-topic.mdusing the publication date. - Preserve source wording; do not summarize or draw in
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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