Skill community research
Risk level
medium
40/100

YouTube Transcript Downloader

YouTube Transcript Downloader is a community-maintained skill from michalparkola. Anomity scores its risk at 40 out of 100 (medium).

network:outbound

Analysis summary

YouTube Transcript Downloader is a community-maintained skill from michalparkola. Anomity scores its risk at 40 out of 100 (medium).

Retrieves and processes transcripts from YouTube URLs so an agent can work with the contents of a talk or tutorial as text instead of being told to watch a video it cannot watch.

Outbound network access is its only capability, making it a low-risk utility. The standard retrieval caveat applies and is easy to forget with video: a transcript is text an unknown person wrote, and an agent that summarises it is processing untrusted input. Video feels less like a document than a web page, which is precisely why it is a convenient injection surface.

Why this entry scored 40 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is community-maintained, trust adjusts the score by -10. The entry declares no high-risk capabilities on its own, so capabilities add nothing. It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 40, placing it in the medium band.

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Findings

  • Established community project Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.