notebooklm

This skill enables interaction with Google NotebookLM for retrieval-augmented generation through the third-party notebooklm-mcp-cli tool (the nlm CLI). It lets an agent programmatically manage research notebooks, add sources, run contextual queries against curated knowledge bases, and retrieve generated artifacts such as audio podcasts, video explainers, reports, quizzes, and mind maps. The problem it addresses is grounding agent work in documentation that lives in NotebookLM rather than in memory.

The workflow verifies the CLI is installed and authenticated, identifies the target notebook (by list, alias, or ID), and then performs the requested operation: querying sources, managing notebooks (create, list, rename, delete), adding sources (URLs, text, files, YouTube, Google Drive), generating studio content, downloading artifacts, and running web or Drive research with polling. A reference file documents the full command surface, including aliases, configuration keys, output formats, MCP server setup for various clients, and diagnostics. Authentication is handled by the upstream tool via nlm login, which extracts Google session cookies through Chrome; the skill documents that this relies on internal Google APIs, that cookies expire roughly every two to four weeks, and that the free tier has an approximate 50-queries-per-day limit.

It targets developers and researchers who maintain knowledge bases in NotebookLM and want agent-driven querying and content generation. The skill declares Bash, Read, and Write tools and orchestrates an external CLI; credentials are managed by that official tooling for the user's own Google account rather than being collected or exfiltrated by the skill.