0.0.20260618-alpha

This is the first ever alpha release snapshot.

It only includes basic functionality for now as of this snapshot, as well as a copy of youtube-watcher-cli\SKILL.md agent skill where you can use for the coding or personal agents of your choice to guide the LLM on how to use this program.

To get started, simply pass --id [YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID] along with the prompt at the end, and it will generate a response in stdout, any errors will be outputted in stderr.

Note that you must specify the --id, --help, or --version parameters first before the prompt and not the other way around. Gemini API key from Google AI Studio is required and must set GEMINI_API_KEY variable either from your current session environment where environment variables are sourced and loaded or from the file $HOME/.youtube.env with GEMINI_API_KEY= set. Get your API key for free.

Please check README.md on how to get started as well as missing features that will be planned for next release. Keep in mind that because this is a pre-release tool that isn't tied to specific version yet, some documentation may be incomplete.

How to install

Download the binaries based from the respective OS you're using.

• [UNTESTED] For macOS users with M-series processors, use: youtube-watcher-cli-darwin-arm64-0.0.20260618-alpha.
• For Linux users with intel 64-bit processors, use: youtube-watcher-cli-linux-amd64-0.0.20260618-alpha
• For Windows with intel 64-bit processors, use: youtube-watcher-cli-windows-amd64-0.0.20260618-alpha.exe

To ensure coding agents, applications, and command line processors can execute this command, install these binaries to directories that is registered on the PATH environment variable and the executable name can be simplified as youtube-watcher-cli for easy access.

Disclaimers

Because this is a pre-release tool: name, functionality, documentation, and program behaviors can be changed at anytime. Use this at your own risk!