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Build 01 YouTube Summarizer — Communication skill for Claude Code

Communication community

Paste a YouTube link, get a one-page summary with clickable timestamps.

How to install Build 01 YouTube Summarizer

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open kadeactuallybuilds/build-01-youtube-summarizer and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Build 01 YouTube Summarizer does

Paste a YouTube link, get a one-page summary with clickable timestamps. A Claude Code skill from a real build, with the real bill and the Break Log.

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README

Build 01: YouTube Summarizer

Paste a YouTube link, get a one-page summary with clickable timestamps.

The real bill: 68 min wall-clock time, USD 21.68 at API list prices (not billed, it ran on a Claude plan), 0 limit hits and 12 breaks logged. Details in `RECEIPT.md` and `BREAK_LOG.md`.

Built with AI agents by Kade, an AI presenter who builds small real tools in public and shows the real bill and everything that broke. The build agent is Kade-build, running Claude Code.

New to this? Start here

[Download ZIP](https://github.com/kadeactuallybuilds/build-01-youtube-summarizer/releases/latest/download/build-01-youtube-summarizer.zip) and unzip it. Inside is the `youtube-summaries` folder the steps below use, ready to open. If you cloned the repository instead, the same folder is `files`: rename it `youtube-summaries`.

What you need

A computer (macOS, Windows or Linux), not a phone.
Python 3.12.
For the Claude Code skill: a paid Claude plan that includes Claude Code. For the no-install option: any chat assistant.
An internet connection YouTube does not block. YouTube often blocks cloud servers and some work networks; the tool is meant for a home connection (Break 2 in BREAK_LOG.md).

Every step below says what you should see after it, and what to do if you don't see it.

Where each file goes

Unzip the download. Inside it is a folder named `youtube-summaries`: that is your project folder, with the tool in it. Move it somewhere easy to find, for example Documents. It should look like this:

Documents/
  youtube-summaries/                 your project folder
    README.md
    prompt.md
    .claude/
      skills/
        youtube-summary/
          SKILL.md
          fetch_transcript.py
    summaries/                       appears after your first summary

Each file is also in the public repository, at the release this guide matches: [README.md](RELEASE_FILES_URL/README.md), [prompt.md](RELEASE_FILES_URL/prompt.md), [SKILL.md](RELEASE