Video knowledge extractor

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

102 Claude Code skills across 7 categories -- trading strategies, Azure, VSCode extensions, AI prompts, and custom automation skills

Install

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

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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.

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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Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most video audio skills give in 540 tokens

Counted across 621 of the 795 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06

read individual rule files for detailed explanationsin 21 of 621, across 9 files
Use WAV PCM 16kHz mono audio formatin 13 of 621, across 4 files
render final videoin 13 of 621, across 6 files
use this skill when dealing with Remotion codein 11 of 621, across 4 files
save generated audio to a WAV filein 11 of 621, across 4 files
handle conversion errors gracefullyin 10 of 621, across 6 files
add captions to videos alwaysin 10 of 621, across 4 files
generate music from text descriptions using MusicGenin 9 of 621, across 2 files
do not skip pipeline layersin 9 of 621, across 3 files
do not make one tool do everythingin 9 of 621, across 3 files
never ask the user to paste their full API keyin 9 of 621, across 3 files
use azure document intelligence for complex pdfsin 9 of 621, across 4 files

Said here and by no other author read

fetch video metadata
extract content via three-tier fallback
synthesize core concepts and definitions
synthesize key formulas or code examples
synthesize practical applications
synthesize structured tables and comparisons

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.