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Download

Downloads YouTube videos to your ~/Downloads folder using yt-dlp.

What it does

• Takes a YouTube URL as input
• Downloads the best available quality (video + audio merged to MP4)
• Saves to ~/Downloads with the video title as filename

Usage

{baseDir}/download.sh "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Or just give me the URL and I'll run it for you.

Requirements

• yt-dlp must be installed: brew install yt-dlp
• On first run, if yt-dlp is missing, the skill will prompt you to install it