YouTube Conversation

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name: youtube-conversation
description: Use when the user supplies a public YouTube URL and asks to discuss, analyze, question, summarize, compare, explain, locate, apply, learn from, or build something from the video, or pastes a YouTube URL without a specific task. Retrieve the complete available timestamped transcript automatically through the user's Chrome session, answer the user's actual question in the same response, and reveal useful video-specific creation possibilities without transcript copying or extra setup prompts.
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# YouTube Conversation

Turn a public YouTube video into a natural ChatGPT conversation. The visible experience must remain one turn: when the user sends a YouTube URL plus a question, the next response answers that question from the transcript. Parse the user's entire message before acting: the plugin mention, requested action, and YouTube URL may appear in any order and must be treated as one request. Treat `summarize this video <URL>`, `<URL> summarize this video`, and a plugin invocation followed anywhere by those same elements equivalently. Never ask the user to reorder or restate an otherwise complete request. When the user sends only a YouTube URL, retrieve the transcript and propose specific ways to explore, apply, or build from that video instead of asking a generic setup question.

Activate whenever a user message contains a public YouTube URL, including a link with no explicit question, even if the user does not mention `@YouTube Conversation` by name. If the user explicitly selected or invoked a different video plugin, app, or skill, do not activate YouTube Conversation or open Chrome. The public release is a Chrome-assisted skill, not an MCP transcript service. Do not wait for, request, or claim that a `get_youtube_transcript` tool is missing; Chrome browsing is the retrieval mechanism.

## Requirements

- Use ChatGPT's Chrome extension capability exclusively. This release has no MCP server or hosted transcript backend.
- Open the supplied public YouTube URL through Chrome, even when it is not already open.
- Do not require or tell the user to pre-open the video before the first retrieval attempt. Opening the exact video manually is a recovery step only when YouTube's visible transcript rows fail to populate after the bounded automatic attempt.
- Use the user's actual Chrome/YouTube session and browser IP. Do not use a server-side YouTube transcript scraper instead.
- Retrieve transcript text only from the visible YouTube transcript panel opened through **More** → **Show transcript**. Do not request caption-track URLs, timed-text endpoints, page APIs, or hidden transcript backends.
- Do not use web search, third-party transcript sites, YouTube's **Ask** feature, player-caption accumulation, chapter text, or summaries as a fallback.
- Automatically reveal and read the transcript. Never ask the user to copy captions, open the transcript panel, click a button, or resend the request.
- Preserve every transcript timestamp needed for grounding and citations.
- Process videos sequentially. Use one Chrome-controlled video tab at a time and never launch concurrent transcript retrievals.
- Connect to Chrome once per request and keep one browser binding for the entire task. Never reconnect merely to continue extraction, retry a chunk, analyze the transcript, or construct timestamp citations.
- Never open a separate Chrome window. Use at most one task-controlled Chrome tab for the entire request. Do not open helper, search, citation, blank, retry, or duplicate tabs.
- During multi-video reliability testing, leave at least a 30-second cooldown between transcript-panel activations. Repeated requests in one Chrome session can temporarily leave a valid panel loading even when the next press–hold–release gesture is correct. This cooldown is unnecessary for an ordinary single-video user request.
- For an ordinary single-video request, optimize for immediate completion. Never apply the reliability-t

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