Agent skill

Notebooklm CLI

by ItamarZand88 in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB

Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic…

MITAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install Notebooklm CLI

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill notebooklm-cli -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB notebooklm-cli --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/notebooklm/agent-harness/cli_web/notebooklm/skills .claude/skills/notebooklm-cli && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
notebooklm-cli
GitHub stars
231
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
189 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic…

  • Asks about NotebookLM
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Commands, Agent Patterns and Notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Wants to create notebooks

What it does

Notebooklm CLI is an agent skill from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB. Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic, data table). Invoke this skill whenever the user asks about NotebookLM, wants to create notebooks, add sources to a notebook, ask a notebook questions, generate study materials, create presentations, podcasts, or manage NotebookLM content programmatically. Always prefer cli-web-notebooklm over manually browsing…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Knowledge Management, covering Source-grounded notebooks and Slides and decks. It works with NotebookLM. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code plugin that generates production-grade Python CLIs for any web app. 20 CLIs and counting. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks about NotebookLM
  • Wants to create notebooks
  • Add sources to a notebook
  • Ask a notebook questions

Example prompts

  • “/notebooklm-cli”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 931e201. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • notebooklm.google.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Notebooklm CLI loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 135 tokens; SKILL.md has 189 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~135
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB at commit 931e201, republished under its MIT licence (© ItamarZand88). 189 words, ~1,407 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/notebooklm-cli/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
notebooklm-cli
description
Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic, data table). Invoke this skill whenever the user asks about NotebookLM, wants to create notebooks, add sources to a notebook, ask a notebook questions, generate study materials, create presentations, podcasts, or manage NotebookLM content programmatically. Always prefer cli-web-notebooklm over manually browsing NotebookLM.

cli-web-notebooklm

CLI for Google NotebookLM. Installed at: cli-web-notebooklm.

Quick Start

bash
# Auth (required — Google account)
cli-web-notebooklm auth login

# List notebooks
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks list --json

# Set context (no need to pass --notebook after this)
cli-web-notebooklm use <notebook-id>

# Ask a question
cli-web-notebooklm chat ask --query "What are the main topics?" --json

# Generate artifact
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type mindmap --json

Always use --json when parsing output programmatically.


Commands

Context (persistent across sessions)
bash
cli-web-notebooklm use <notebook-id>        # Set current notebook
cli-web-notebooklm status --json            # Show context + auth

Once set, --notebook is optional on all notebook-scoped commands.

Notebooks
bash
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks list --json
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks create --title "My Research" --json
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks get <notebook-id> --json       # partial ID OK
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks rename <notebook-id> --title "New Title" --json
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks delete <notebook-id> --confirm --json

Output fields: id, title, emoji, source_count, is_pinned, created_at, updated_at

Sources
bash
cli-web-notebooklm sources list --json                        # uses context
cli-web-notebooklm sources add-url --url https://example.com --json
cli-web-notebooklm sources add-text --title "Notes" --text "..." --json
cli-web-notebooklm sources get <source-id> --json             # partial ID OK
cli-web-notebooklm sources delete <source-id> --confirm --json

Output fields: id, name, type (url/text), url, char_count, created_at

Chat
bash
cli-web-notebooklm chat ask --query "Summarize the key findings" --json

Output fields: notebook_id, query, answer

Artifacts
bash
# Generate any artifact type
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type <type> --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type briefing --wait --output briefing.md --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type audio --wait --json

# List all artifacts with status
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts list --json

# Download a completed artifact
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts download <artifact-id> -o output_file --json

# Other
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate-notes --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts list-audio-types --json

Types: audio, video, mindmap, study-guide, briefing, faq, quiz, infographic, slide-deck, data-table

Flags: --wait (poll until complete), --retry N (rate limit retries), --output file

Download formats by type:

TypeDownloadFormat
briefing / study-guidemarkdown.md
audioaudio file.mp4
videovideo file.mp4
slide-deckPDF or PPTX.pdf / .pptx
data-tableCSV.csv
quiz / faqJSON with questions.json
mindmapinline JSON (no download needed)—
Auth
bash
cli-web-notebooklm auth login                  # Browser login (Python playwright)
cli-web-notebooklm auth login --cookies-json cookies.json  # Import from file
cli-web-notebooklm auth status --json           # Check validity
cli-web-notebooklm auth refresh                 # Re-extract tokens
User
bash
cli-web-notebooklm whoami --json

Agent Patterns

bash
# Create notebook, add sources, generate presentation
cli-web-notebooklm notebooks create --title "Research" --json
cli-web-notebooklm use <id-from-above>
cli-web-notebooklm sources add-url --url https://example.com --json
cli-web-notebooklm sources add-url --url https://docs.example.com --json
sleep 10  # Wait for source processing

# Ask questions
cli-web-notebooklm chat ask --query "What methodology was used?" --json

# Generate all study materials
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type briefing --wait --output briefing.md --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type study-guide --wait --output guide.md --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type slide-deck --wait --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts generate --type audio --wait --json

# Download completed artifacts
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts list --json  # Get IDs
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts download <slide-id> -o slides.pdf --json
cli-web-notebooklm artifacts download <audio-id> -o podcast.mp4 --json

Notes

  • Auth: Required (Google account). Run cli-web-notebooklm auth login first.
  • CI/CD: Set CLI_WEB_NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_JSON env var with cookies JSON.
  • Errors: --json mode returns {"error": true, "code": "AUTH_EXPIRED", "message": "..."}.
  • Rate limiting: Google batchexecute API. Use --retry N on generation commands.
  • Protocol: Google batchexecute RPC (not REST).
  • Audio/video generation takes 5-10 minutes. Use --wait to poll automatically.
  • Sources need processing time after adding (5-10 seconds for URLs).

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Files

Just SKILL.md in notebooklm/agent-harness/cli_web/notebooklm/skills of ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 931e201

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Questions about Notebooklm CLI

What does Notebooklm CLI do?

Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic…. Notebooklm CLI is an agent skill from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB. Use cli-web-notebooklm to interact with Google NotebookLM — create notebooks, add sources, ask questions, generate artifacts (audio, video, slides, mindmap, study guide, quiz, briefing, infographic, data table).

When should I use Notebooklm CLI?

Notebooklm CLI fits situations like: asks about NotebookLM; wants to create notebooks; add sources to a notebook; ask a notebook questions.

How do I install Notebooklm CLI in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill notebooklm-cli -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (notebooklm/agent-harness/cli_web/notebooklm/skills in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB) into .claude/skills/notebooklm-cli in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Notebooklm CLI in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill notebooklm-cli -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (notebooklm/agent-harness/cli_web/notebooklm/skills in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB) into .agents/skills/notebooklm-cli in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Notebooklm CLI in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill notebooklm-cli -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/notebooklm-cli, .gemini/skills/notebooklm-cli, .github/skills/notebooklm-cli and .opencode/skills/notebooklm-cli in your project.

What does Notebooklm CLI need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Notebooklm CLI is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Notebooklm CLI access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: notebooklm.google.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Notebooklm CLI safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Notebooklm CLI use?

Notebooklm CLI is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Notebooklm CLI use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Notebooklm CLI?

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Who maintains Notebooklm CLI?

ItamarZand88 (a GitHub user) maintains it in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB, which has 231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 1, 2026.

Source: ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.