Video knowledge extractor

Skill mahmoud20138/Tradecraft/plugins/tradecraft/skills/video-knowledge-extractor

Extract knowledge from any YouTube video and automatically inject it into the most relevant skill files. USE FOR: "watch this video and add to skills", "extract and save", "learn from video", "add video knowledge to skills", "youtube to skill", "update skills from video", "extract and route knowledge", or any YouTube URL shared by the user. This skill ORCHESTRATES: fetch video → extract content → identify related skills → inject knowledge.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill video-knowledge-extractor

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One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

2.7 KB, 540 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Video → Knowledge → Skills Pipeline

When to Trigger

User shares a YouTube URL
User says "add to skills", "learn from this", "extract and save"
Any video about trading, AI, development, or any topic matching existing skills

Full Pipeline

YouTube URL
    │
    ├── 1. FETCH METADATA  (yt-dlp / oEmbed API)
    │       title, channel, duration, chapters
    │
    ├── 2. EXTRACT CONTENT (3-tier fallback)
    │       ├── youtube-transcript-api  (fastest)
    │       ├── yt-dlp subtitle download
    │       └── WebSearch for summaries/articles about the video
    │
    ├── 3. SYNTHESIZE KNOWLEDGE (Claude)
    │       ├── Core concepts & definitions
    │       ├── Key formulas / code examples
    │       ├── Practical applications
    │       ├── Structured tables & comparisons
    │       └── Trading/domain relevance
    │
    └── 4. ROUTE TO SKILLS (auto-inject)
            ├── Scan skill files for topic overlap
            ├── Append knowledge block to matching skill(s)
            └── Report: "Added to [skill-file] → [section]"

Skill Routing Map

Video Topic	Target Skill File	Section
Markov chains, statistics, time series, probability	`trading.md`	quant-backtesting / statistics-timeseries
ICT, SMC, order flow, liquidity, FVG	`trading.md`	ict-smart-money
Risk, drawdown, Kelly, Monte Carlo	`trading.md`	risk-and-portfolio
Backtesting, quant, ML, RL, neural nets	`trading.md`	quant-backtesting
Macro, news, sentiment, regime	`trading.md`	market-intelligence
Price action, patterns, Elliott Wave	`trading.md`	price-action-chart-analysis
MT5, EA, MQL5, automation	`trading.md`	mt5-trading-tools
Options, futures, crypto, forex	`trading.md`	asset-classes
Claude Code, AI agents, MCP, hooks	`claude-ai-tools.md`	—
Web dev, UI, architecture, testing	`development.md`	—
YouTube, video, web scraping	`media-web.md`	—

Knowledge Block Format

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What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.