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Best Summarization Skills for AI Agents
56 Summarization skills for AI coding assistants — ranked by popularity.
This collection provides modular summarization skills for AI agents, specifically curated for tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. These skills allow your agent to process information from diverse sources, including academic databases, YouTube transcripts, internal meetings, and professional news feeds. Whether you need to conduct a literature review, capture actionable items from a team discussion, or extract insights from a lengthy video, these specific configurations automate the heavy lifting. Each skill acts as a specialized instruction set that dictates how your agent parses, categorizes, and summarizes raw data. These tools are built for developers who need to turn hours of content into concise, usable notes without constant manual intervention. By integrating these skills, your development environment gains the ability to filter noise and focus on critical takeaways, keeping your technical research and project management workflows moving efficiently.
Top Summarization skills
literature-review
K-Dense-AI
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
meeting-minutes
github
Generate concise, actionable meeting minutes for internal meetings. Includes metadata, attendees, agenda, decisions, action items (owner + due date), and follow-up steps.
nlm-skill
jacob-bd
Expert guide for the NotebookLM CLI (`nlm`) and MCP server - interfaces for Google NotebookLM. Use this skill when users want to interact with NotebookLM programmatically, including: creating/managing notebooks, adding sources (URLs, YouTube, text, Google Drive), generating content (podcasts, reports, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, slides, infographics, videos, data tables), conducting research, chatting with sources, or automating NotebookLM workflows. Triggers on mentions of "nlm", "notebooklm", "notebook lm", "podcast generation", "audio overview", or any NotebookLM-related automation task.
youtube-wisdom
sammcj
Extract wisdom, insights, and actionable takeaways from YouTube videos. Use when asked to analyse, summarise, or extract key learnings from YouTube content. Downloads transcripts only (no video files), performs comprehensive analysis including key insights, notable quotes, structured summaries, and actionable takeaways, then saves the analysis to a markdown file.
summarize
openclaw
Summarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
read-arxiv-paper
karpathy
Use this skill when when asked to read an arxiv paper given an arxiv URL
knowledge-synthesis
anthropics
Combines search results from multiple sources into coherent, deduplicated answers with source attribution. Handles confidence scoring based on freshness and authority, and summarizes large result sets effectively.
transcribe
openai
Transcribe audio files to text with optional diarization and known-speaker hints. Use when a user asks to transcribe speech from audio/video, extract text from recordings, or label speakers in interviews or meetings.
youtube-summarizer
sickn33
Extract transcripts from YouTube videos and generate comprehensive, detailed summaries using intelligent analysis frameworks
executive-briefing
anthropics
Transforms research findings into executive-ready briefings. Automatically activated when user mentions 'executive', 'briefing', 'C-suite', 'board', 'leadership', or 'presentation'.
arxiv-to-md
solatis
Convert arXiv papers to LLM-consumable markdown. Invoke when user provides an arXiv ID or URL, or when syncing academic papers from a PDF folder to a markdown destination.
video-report
remotion-dev
Generate a report about a video
arxiv-viewer
actionbook
View, search, and download academic papers from arXiv. Supports API queries, web scraping via Actionbook, and HTML paper reading via ar5iv. Use when user asks about arxiv papers, academic papers, research papers, paper summaries, latest papers, or wants to search/download/read papers.
user-file-ops
trpc-group
Simple operations on user-provided text files including summarization.
meeting-minutes-taker
daymade
Transforms raw meeting transcripts into high-fidelity, structured meeting minutes with iterative review for completeness. This skill should be used when (1) a meeting transcript is provided and meeting minutes, notes, or summaries are requested, (2) multiple versions of meeting minutes need to be merged without losing content, (3) existing minutes need to be reviewed against the original transcript for missing items, (4) transcript has anonymous speakers like "Speaker 1/2/3" that need identification. Features include: speaker identification via feature analysis (word count, speaking style, topic focus) with context.md team directory mapping, intelligent file naming from content, integration with transcript-fixer for pre-processing, evidence-based recording with speaker quotes, Mermaid diagrams for architecture discussions, multi-turn parallel generation to avoid content loss, and iterative human-in-the-loop refinement.
pi-share
mitsuhiko
Load and parse session transcripts from shittycodingagent.ai/buildwithpi.ai/buildwithpi.com (pi-share) URLs. Fetches gists, decodes embedded session data, and extracts conversation history.
youtube-digest
team-attention
This skill should be used when the user asks to "유튜브 정리", "영상 요약", "transcript 번역", "YouTube digest", "영상 퀴즈", or provides a YouTube URL for analysis. Extracts transcript, generates summary/insights/Korean translation, and tests comprehension with 9 quiz questions across 3 difficulty levels. Optional Deep Research for web-based follow-up.
deep-reading-analyst
ginobefun
Comprehensive framework for deep analysis of articles, papers, and long-form content using 10+ thinking models (SCQA, 5W2H, critical thinking, inversion, mental models, first principles, systems thinking, six thinking hats). Use when users want to: (1) deeply understand complex articles/content, (2) analyze arguments and identify logical flaws, (3) extract actionable insights from reading materials, (4) create study notes or learning summaries, (5) compare multiple sources, (6) transform knowledge into practical applications, or (7) apply specific thinking frameworks. Triggered by phrases like 'analyze this article,' 'help me understand,' 'deep dive into,' 'extract insights from,' 'use [framework name],' or when users provide URLs/long-form content for analysis.
twinmind-core-workflow-a
jeremylongshore
Execute TwinMind primary workflow: Meeting transcription and summary generation. Use when implementing meeting capture, building transcription features, or automating meeting documentation. Trigger with phrases like "twinmind transcription workflow", "meeting transcription", "capture meeting with twinmind".
comprehensive-research-agent
muratcankoylan
Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks with multiple tool calls
research-synthesis-workflow
lofcz
A step-by-step guide to synthesizing research from multiple sources into a coherent summary.
history-insight
team-attention
This skill should be used when user wants to access, capture, or reference Claude Code session history. Trigger when user says "capture session", "save session history", or references past/current conversation as a source - whether for saving, extracting, summarizing, or reviewing. This includes any mention of "what we discussed", "today's work", "session history", or when user treats the conversation itself as source material (e.g., "from our conversation").
perplexity-core-workflow-b
jeremylongshore
Execute Perplexity secondary workflow: Core Workflow B. Use when implementing secondary use case, or complementing primary workflow. Trigger with phrases like "perplexity secondary workflow", "secondary task with perplexity".
analyzing-text-sentiment
jeremylongshore
Execute this skill enables AI assistant to analyze the sentiment of text data. it identifies the emotional tone expressed in text, classifying it as positive, negative, or neutral. use this skill when a user requests sentiment analysis, opinion mining, or emoti... Use when analyzing code or data. Trigger with phrases like 'analyze', 'review', or 'examine'.
How to choose a Summarization skill
When selecting a skill, evaluate the source compatibility and the output format you require. Look at the maintenance activity of the repository to ensure it remains compatible with your specific agent architecture. Consider the scope: do you need a highly specialized tool for academic research, or a general-purpose aggregator for AI industry news? Check if the skill produces structured data like markdown or plain text, as this determines how easily you can incorporate the output into your existing codebase or documentation projects.