NotebookLM Skill for Claude Code

A Claude Code / Agent Skill that lets your AI agent query your Google NotebookLM notebooks — citation-backed, source-grounded answers from your own documents, plus notebook / source / Studio management. Zero hallucinations: answers come only from your sources.

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This skill drives the @roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp engine — the fastest, most complete NotebookLM automation (dual internal-RPC + browser transport, 59 REST endpoints, full Studio generation, multi-account). It works two ways, whichever your session already has:

• notebooklm MCP tools if configured, or
• the engine's HTTP REST API via the bundled scripts/nblm.sh.

What it enables

• Citation-backed Q&A — ask a notebook a question, get an answer grounded in your sources with the exact cited passages.
• Studio generation — audio overview, report, video, infographic, presentation, data table, flashcards, quiz, mind map.
• Source discovery — web/Drive research to find and import new sources.
• Research at scale — the batch-to-cache pattern: ingest once with NotebookLM, then retrieve offline, unlimited.

Coming from PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill?

That skill was archived on 10 September 2026 — no updates, no fixes, no support. It still works today and may for a while, but it cannot absorb the next change Google makes to NotebookLM, and there have been several (the product was rebranded in July 2026).

This skill is maintained, and the engine behind it grew out of the same author's MCP server — he is credited first in its licence. Differences worth knowing before you switch:

• It generates more than audio: report, video, infographic, presentation, data table, flashcards, quiz and mind map.
• It can run without an MCP client through the engine's REST API, which is what makes the batch patterns possible.
• It needs a fresh login: NotebookLM sessions are tied to a browser profile and cannot be copied across.

Migration detail for the MCP server itself — including the one environment variable that means something different in each project — is in the migration guide.

Install

As a plugin (recommended — gets the skill and the MCP server):

/plugin marketplace add roomi-fields/claude-plugins
/plugin install notebooklm@roomi-fields

Or just the skill — copy skills/notebooklm/ into your skills folder:

git clone https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-skill.git
cp -r notebooklm-skill/skills/notebooklm ~/.claude/skills/

Then log in to Google once (a visible Chrome window opens):

notebooklm-mcp-setup-auth

Use

Just ask your agent things like:

"Ask my Thesis notebook what the main critiques of the framework are, with citations."

The skill handles auth checks, transport selection, citation formatting, and the quota-aware batch pattern. See skills/notebooklm/SKILL.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Built by @roomi-fields.