Summarize
- 868 installs
- skills.volces.com
Summarize is an agent skill that reads long-form content and returns concise, structured summaries optimized for agent consumption.
About
Summarize is an agent skill that reads long-form content such as meeting notes, research findings, specifications, logs, or customer interviews and returns a concise, structured summary optimized for agent consumption. Solo builders and indie developers use it to stay focused, reduce context overload, and hand clean distilled information to Claude, Cursor, or other coding agents. It removes noise while retaining critical facts, decisions, and next steps so that subsequent agent tasks start from high-signal input instead of raw walls of text. The skill improves speed and reliability across the entire builder journey by making every follow-up prompt shorter and more effective.
- Condenses long documents and conversations into clear summaries
- Preserves key decisions, action items, and technical details
- Reduces token usage for downstream agent workflows
- Works across research, planning, review, and documentation tasks
Summarize by the numbers
- 868 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- +3 installs in the week ending Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
- Ranked #558 of 3,282 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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What it does
Quickly turn long transcripts, meeting notes, specs, or research into concise, actionable summaries that an agent can act on.
Who is it for?
Best when you regularly work with long documents, meeting notes, research, or verbose agent outputs and want to keep context tight.
Skip if: Projects that consist only of very short prompts or when the original text must be preserved verbatim without any condensation.
When should I use this skill?
Before feeding long documents or transcripts to an agent, or when context length needs to be reduced while preserving key information.
What you get
You receive a focused summary containing only the essential facts, decisions, and action items that can be directly fed into the next agent skill or coding task.
- Concise structured summary containing key facts and action items
By the numbers
- 853 installs
Files
Summarize
Fast CLI to summarize URLs, local files, and YouTube links.
Quick start
summarize "https://example.com" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "/path/to/file.pdf" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --youtube autoModel + keys
Set the API key for your chosen provider:
- OpenAI:
OPENAI_API_KEY - Anthropic:
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY - xAI:
XAI_API_KEY - Google:
GEMINI_API_KEY(aliases:GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY,GOOGLE_API_KEY)
Default model is google/gemini-3-flash-preview if none is set.
Useful flags
--length short|medium|long|xl|xxl|<chars>--max-output-tokens <count>--extract-only(URLs only)--json(machine readable)--firecrawl auto|off|always(fallback extraction)--youtube auto(Apify fallback ifAPIFY_API_TOKENset)
Config
Optional config file: ~/.summarize/config.json
{ "model": "openai/gpt-5.2" }Optional services:
FIRECRAWL_API_KEYfor blocked sitesAPIFY_API_TOKENfor YouTube fallback
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Summarize has 1 known copy in the catalog totaling 378 installs. They canonicalize to this original listing.
- modelscope.cn - 378 installs
How it compares
Use instead of ad-hoc chat summarization or manual copy-editing.
FAQ
Who is summarize for?
Developers who use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar agents and need to keep context concise while preserving important details.
When should I use summarize?
Use it after customer interviews, long research sessions, when processing verbose meeting notes, after an agent produces lengthy logs, before writing a spec from raw ideas, or when preparing documentation from scattered sources.
Is summarize safe to install?
Yes. Like any skill, users should review the Security Audits panel on this page before installing.