Agent skill · software engineering · pedronauck
kb-yt-channel
Create and maintain Karpathy KB topics from YouTube channels through scaffolding, bulk transcript ingestion, validation, and indexing. Excludes single videos, general summaries, and other sources.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a custom Python script for bulk ingesting YouTube channel transcripts into a Knowledge Base, which includes specific configurations and optimizations not commonly found in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires curl_cffi, ffmpeg, kb, yt-dlp installed locally. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-01. 564 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
KB YouTube Channel Use the native kb ingest channel for channel resolution, transcripts, dedup/resume, retries, and pacing. The bundled scripts/ingest-channel.py adds topic organization under yt-channels/, metadata, indexes, validation, and a run report. 1. Resolve the vault, channel/playlist URL, topic slug/title/domain, video selection (--limit N or --all), and transcript policy (captions, auto, or stt) from the request. Ask only for choices that cannot reasonably be inferred. 2. Check required tools once, reusing current evidence: kb, yt-dlp, qmd when indexing, and ffmpeg plus the configured provider when STT is requested. Do not install optional networking dependencies as a default preflight. 3. Run python3 <kb-yt-channel-dir>/scripts/ingest-channel.py with --vault, --channel-url, --topic-slug, --title, --domain, selection, and --transcribe. Resolve the helper from this skill directory. Native-language captions are the default; override --sub-langs only when needed. --no-index defers indexing; --embed requests embeddings. 4. A preview is optional. The existing --dry-run creates/updates the topic skeleton and metadata, then lists the ingest plan without transcripts; it is not a read-only preview. Use it only within authorized topic creation/update. Do not require preview followed by a repeated full preflight. 5. Inspect the helper's JSON summary and failures. Reuse its completed topic-info/lint/index validation; run additional checks only for missing evidence. When searchability is part of the task, verify one representative kb search in the topic/collection after indexing. 6. Report actual ingested/skipped/failed counts and the report path. Compile wiki articles only if the task includes synthesis; transcript ingestion alone does not imply compilation. Failures and references Start with the existing network configuration and native bounded retries/backoff. On rate limits, honor server guidance, lower concurrency, or increase pacing. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills pedronauck/kb-yt-channel