NotebookLM Cowork

notebooklm-cowork

A Claude Cowork plugin that gives Claude full control over Google NotebookLM. 39 tools. Notebooks, sources, AI queries, web research, studio artifacts, sharing, batch operations — all from conversation.

You say "query my research notebook for the top scaling strategies" and Claude calls the API, gets cited responses, brings them back into the conversation. No tab switching. No copy-paste. No manual orchestration.

What's New in v0.2.0

Updated for notebooklm-mcp-cli v0.7.7. Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

• Research auto-import — research_status accepts auto_import=True to import discovered sources into the notebook on completion. The default returns a next_action hint with the exact import call. Deep-research polling runs up to 15 minutes.
• Faster Drive listing — source_list_drive accepts skip_freshness=True for large notebooks, and freshness checks now run in parallel.
• Async queries for big notebooks — notebook_query_start plus notebook_query_status query notebooks with 50+ sources without hitting client timeouts.
• Reliable reads after add — source_get_content polls NotebookLM indexing states, so a source can be read right after it is added.
• Smarter auth — health checks separate stale (re-auth needed) from unverified (a transient network blip), and the auth gate is shared across tools.
• Connectivity — SOCKS proxy support via ALL_PROXY, plus NOTEBOOKLM_RPC_OVERRIDES for when Google rotates RPC IDs.

The bundled skill and 39-tool reference were updated to match, and the plugin version moved to 0.2.0.

What You Get

Notebooks — Create, rename, delete, describe, list, tag, and organize your NotebookLM notebooks without leaving Claude.

Sources — Add URLs, plain text, local files (PDF, DOCX, TXT), or Google Drive documents. Bulk-add multiple URLs at once. Sync stale Drive sources. Get AI summaries and keywords for any source.

AI Queries — Ask questions against your notebook sources and get cited answers. Filter by specific sources. Run follow-up conversations. Query across all notebooks at once with cross-notebook search.

Research — Run web or Google Drive research on any topic. Fast mode (~30s) or deep mode (~5min). Preview discovered sources and import the ones you want, or set auto_import=True to drop every result straight into the notebook on completion.

Studio Artifacts — Generate 9 types of rich output from your sources:

Type	Formats
Audio	Deep dive, brief, critique, debate — with length control
Video	Explainer, brief, cinematic — with style presets
Slide deck	Detailed or presenter format
Report	Briefing, study guide, blog post
Infographic	Configurable orientation and detail
Flashcards	Easy, medium, or difficult
Quiz	Configurable question count
Data table	Guided extraction with custom descriptions
Mind map	Auto-organized from sources

All artifacts support language selection, focus prompts, and source filtering. Download as files (WAV, PDF, PPTX, JSON, Markdown, HTML) or export to Google Docs/Sheets.

Sharing — Toggle public access, invite collaborators as viewers or editors, batch-invite multiple people.

Batch & Pipelines — Run queries, add sources, or create artifacts across multiple notebooks at once. Chain multi-step workflows for repeatable research-to-artifact processes.

Commands

Command	What it does
/notebook-list	List all notebooks with IDs and source counts
/notebook-create [title]	Create a notebook and walk through adding sources
/notebook-query [question]	Query one or all notebooks with AI, get cited answers
/notebook-research [topic]	Run web or Drive research, preview results, import into a notebook
/notebook-studio [type]	Generate a studio artifact (audio, video, slides, quiz, etc.)

Build an expert agent from YouTube

Turn any creator, course, or channel into an expert resource you can query at any time inside your project.

1. Install the YouTube to NotebookLM Chrome extension. One click sends YouTube videos, playlists, channels, or search results into a NotebookLM notebook.
2. Load a notebook with the material you want an expert on: a mentor's full channel, a course playlist, a stack of conference talks.
3. Query that notebook from Claude whenever you need it with /notebook-query. NotebookLM answers from the videos with citations, so the notebook behaves like an on-demand expert you consult without leaving your work.

Example: load a sales trainer's channel into a Sales notebook, then ask /notebook-query how do I handle a price objection on a $3k service? and get an answer grounded in their actual talks.

Setup