The guide · paste into Claude Code
Turn any expert into your AI coach.
A Claude Code skill that bulk-loads any expert's YouTube channel into NotebookLM, runs a personalised interview about your goal, and writes a protocol with experiments tracked in Obsidian. Every recommendation cites the exact episode — no hallucinations, verifiable, not vibes. I gave Claude 300 Huberman episodes and it became my health coach; the same pipeline works for any expert, in any domain.
The full setup — 8 paste-in prompts
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Four reasons this beats just chatting with the videos
Bulk-load entire channels
NotebookLM's UI won't let you add a YouTube channel — only one video at a time. The skill bulk-loads up to 300 episodes from a single command. Huberman, Lenny, Tim Ferriss, anyone.Every answer is cited — no hallucinations
Claude can't make things up because every recommendation has to come back as a quote from a real transcript passage with a working episode link. If a citation isn't there, the answer didn't get made. Verifiable, not vibes.Saves your context window
300 episodes of transcripts would blow past Claude's context window 100x over. The transcripts stay in NotebookLM as the long-term brain; Claude only pulls the 3–5 cited passages relevant to your question. Cheaper runs, longer chats.Personal protocol, not advice
Claude interviews you about your goal, queries the notebook for what the expert actually said about your specific situation, and writes a protocol with experiments you run in Obsidian.The stack — three tools
A free Google account is enough to start.
| Role | Tool | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Agent | Claude Code | Runs the skill. Drives the interview and writes the protocol. |
| Notebook | NotebookLM | Stores the 300 episodes. Free Google account works (50-source cap). |
| Vault | Obsidian | Where the cited protocol, experiments, and daily logs land. |
| Bonus | Whoop / wearable | Optional — feed daily metrics in for personalised adjustments. |
Setup — 8 prompts
Don't learn the commands. Just paste the prompts. You don't need to know what uv or nlm login means. Open Claude Code in the desktop app, paste each prompt below in order, and Claude figures out what to install, where, and how. If anything fails, paste the error back in and ask it to fix — that's the workflow. Want the full technical reference (free vs. NotebookLM Plus caps, how to repair failed sources, fork details)? It's in the README on the repo.
01 · Open Claude Code in the desktop app + start a project
Grab the Claude desktop app from claude.com/download and sign in with your Pro or Max account. Inside the app, click + New chat, then find Claude Code in the sidebar and click Add project. When it asks for a folder, pick or create one called coach in your home directory. That folder is where everything lives — Claude reads and writes here.
New to Claude Code? Walk through the content brain setup first — it shows the same flow with screenshots.
02 · Paste this — Claude installs everything for you
You don't need to know what these tools are. Claude will install them, verify they work, and tell you if anything failed. In your fresh Claude Code chat, paste:
Claude will run the install commands one by one in your terminal, ask you to allow each, and report back. If anything errors, paste the error message back in and ask it to fix.
03 · Paste this — log in to NotebookLM (the only hands-on bit)
Logging in opens browser windows that Claude can't click for you. But Claude runs the commands and guides you through what to do in each browser window. Paste:
One trap to avoid: both logins must land on the same Google account. Claude will check this for you — if they don't match, follow its instructions to fix.
04 · Paste this — Claude installs the skill
The skill itself is a folder on GitHub. Claude clones it into the right place and tells you to restart the app so it picks up the new skill:
Once you restart the desktop app and open your coach project again, type /skills in chat to confirm notebooklm is listed.
05 · Paste this — load your expert into a notebook
Now the fun part. Pick your channel (Huberman, Lenny, whoever) and paste:
Claude scrapes the channel, creates the notebook, and bulk-uploads the episodes (~3–8 min). It'll narrate progress and tell you when to wait for NotebookLM to finish indexing (~5 more min after upload).
Free vs. Plus: free NotebookLM caps at 50 sources per notebook; Plus / Pro is 300. If you ask for 300 on free, the extra ~250 show up as failed sources. Match the count to your plan.
06 · Paste this — Claude interviews you and writes your protocol
Tell Claude your goal in plain English. It queries the notebook with your situation, runs an interview, and writes a 4-week protocol with experiments you can track. Paste:
What comes back:
- Cited interview — every question Claude asks links to the exact episode + passage it came from. You can click and verify.
- 4-week protocol — your goal split into weekly experiments with measurable outcomes.
- Experiment files — one markdown file per move in your
coachfolder, with start date, end date, source episode, check-in cadence.
Once you have the protocol, keep going: "rewrite assuming I can only train 3x/week", "what does Huberman say specifically about cold exposure for HRV?", "merge in my whoop data and adjust".
07 · (Optional) Drop in your Whoop or Apple Health data
The protocol from step 06 is built on the expert's research alone. To make it actually yours, feed in your real biometrics — recovery scores, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, workouts. Claude reads them straight from a file in your coach folder.
Whoop — export from whoop.com/account/data (Account → My Data → Export). You get a zip with CSVs. Unzip it and drop the folder into your coach project.
Apple Health — on iPhone, open the Health app → tap your profile (top right) → Export All Health Data. Share the resulting export.zip to your Mac (AirDrop is easiest). Unzip and drop the folder into your coach project too.
Then paste:
Claude finds patterns you'd miss in the noise — mine surfaced "HRV consistently tanks the day after Zyns past 2pm" from cross-referencing the daily logs with Huberman's episode on nicotine + sleep.
Privacy note: the data stays in your local coach folder. Nothing leaves your machine except the relevant snippets Claude sends to Anthropic to think about your question.
08 · (Optional) Set up the morning check-in with Obsidian
The basic loop works without Obsidian — Claude writes experiment files into your coach folder either way. But Obsidian + the morning-routine skill turns it into a coach that checks in on you daily. Install Obsidian and open your coach folder as a vault. Then paste:
After that, every morning you just type "morning check-in" in Claude Code. It pulls your Whoop / Oura data (if connected), asks how the day went, updates the experiments, writes a daily log.
Pro move: after a week of check-ins, ask Claude "review my logs and tell me which moves are actually correlating with HRV improvement". It cross-references your daily logs against the protocol so you find out which advice was real and which was noise.
Same pipeline, different brain
Swap the channel, get a different coach. The expert-interview pattern is the same regardless of domain.
Health coach (Huberman)
Sleep, recovery, stress, supplements. Feed in your Whoop or Oura data and ask why your HRV is tanking. Mine surfaced "no Zyns after 2pm" cited to a specific episode.Business coach (Hormozi)
Offers, pricing, lead-gen, acquisition. Load Acquisition.com plus the 100M Offers / 100M Leads content. Ask why your sales calls aren't closing and get the move with the cited timestamp.Life coach (Naval)
Long-term thinking, decision-making, leverage, happiness. Cited to actual Naval episodes and tweetstorms — no Reddit-paraphrased nonsense in the answers.Things people ask first
Do I need NotebookLM Plus?
Not to start. Free Google accounts cap at 50 sources per notebook — fine for most channels' top episodes. Plus/Pro raises it to 300. If you load 300 on a free account the extra ~250 show up as failed (red) rows, which looks like a bug but is the tier limit. The skill defaults to 300; pass --count 50 on free.
Why not just chat with the videos directly in NotebookLM?
Because NotebookLM is a notebook, not a coach. It answers what you ask. The skill turns it into a coach: Claude does the asking based on YOUR goal, runs the whole interview, builds a protocol, writes experiments into Obsidian, and a separate morning-routine skill checks in on you daily. NotebookLM is the brain; Claude is the personal trainer.
Does it work for non-health channels?
Yes — same pipeline, any YouTube channel. Health was the demo because Huberman has 400+ episodes and a clear protocol layer. Lenny's Podcast → product coach. My First Million → business coach. Same loader, same interview pattern.
What if I don't use Obsidian?
The protocol and experiments still get written — just to plain markdown files in your project folder. You can read them in any editor. Obsidian just makes the experiment-tracking and daily-check-in flow smoother because of Dataview.
Run it on Huberman. Run it on your favourite product podcaster. Run it on your company's internal Looms. If a workflow breaks or you want a feature added, open a PR on GitHub.
Original guide by Artem Novitckii. More from him on Instagram, in the Skool community, and across his resource library.