v0.1.0

First public beta. Build a Claude Code advisor skill from any YouTube channel.

Added

• Two-action user UX: paste a channel + intent in chat → AI builds the advisor → invoke /<channel-slug>-advisor to ask questions.
• Three-tier transcript cascade: youtube-transcript-api (free YT captions) → yt-dlp VTT fallback → local Whisper via faster-whisper or scriba.
• Hybrid retrieval: BM25 + dense embeddings (fastembed with bge-small-en-v1.5 default, bge-m3 opt-in for multilingual) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion.
• Citation-first answer contract: every answer carries verbatim quotes with youtube.com/watch?v=ID&t=SECONDS deep-links.
• LLM-drafted SKILL.md and benchmark per advisor (when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set) — OR — handoff to the AI agent in chat via .pending-llm-draft.json when no API key is set (--no-llm mode, auto-detected).
• Incremental updates: saved selection filter is replayed on update, only new videos are fetched and indexed.
• Eval scaffolding: generated benchmark + runner with regression detection (--run-evals).
• Selection DSL: --channel, --playlist, --since, --until, --max, --title-include, --title-exclude, --ids.
• Anti-bot defaults: 1–5s randomized sleep between yt-dlp requests, exponential-backoff retries on HTTP 429.
• Live progress: bootstrap writes <advisor>/.progress.json on every stage change and per-video ingest; scripts/status.sh <advisor> (and youtube-advisor status <advisor>) print a one-line snapshot for a peek from a side terminal.
• YouTube JS-challenge solver: yt-dlp invocations now pass --remote-components ejs:github (auto-detected via yt-dlp --help probe — silently omitted on older yt-dlp builds without the flag) and --extractor-args youtube:formats=missing_pot to avoid HTTP 429s and PO-token errors. Requires deno on PATH at runtime; install.sh now warns if missing.
• Cookie support: --cookies-from-browser {chrome,firefox,safari,brave,edge,…}, --cookies <file>, env vars YOUTUBE_ADVISOR_COOKIES_BROWSER / YOUTUBE_ADVISOR_COOKIES_FILE, and auto-discovery of ~/.config/youtube-advisor/cookies.txt.
• OSS scaffolding: MIT license, scriba-style README, CONTRIBUTING, THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES, bash scripts/install.sh helper.
• Python package uses src/ layout (src/youtube_advisor/).
• 183 tests (unit + integration + E2E).

Known limitations

• Single channel per advisor (multi-channel rollups planned for v0.2).
• Length-based filtering (e.g. "interviews > 60 minutes") not yet a selection flag.
• LangDetect on update doesn't re-fire — corpus language persists from bootstrap.