YouTubeSAFE
High-efficiency YouTube MCP server: Get token-optimized, structured data for your LLMs using the YouTube Data API v3.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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A production-grade YouTube Data MCP server engineered specifically for AI agents.
Unlike standard API wrappers that flood your LLM with redundant data, this server strips away YouTube's heavy payload bloat. It is designed to save you massive amounts of context window tokens, protect your daily API quotas via caching, and run reliably without breaking your workflows.
Why Choose This Server?
Most MCP servers are weekend projects. @kirbah/mcp-youtube is built for reliable, daily, cost-effective agentic workflows.
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c4d95765d159OBSERVED · 2026-10-09Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.
claude mcp add mcp-youtube --env YOUTUBE_API_KEY=${YOUTUBE_API_KEY} --env MDB_MCP_CONNECTION_STRING=${MDB_MCP_CONNECTION_STRING} -- npx -y @kirbah/[email protected]Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (9)
.prettierignore
.prettierrc.json
let initializeContainer: typeof import("../../src/container").initializeContainer;{} as import("../../src/services/cache.service").CacheService; // representative instance{} as import("../../src/services/youtube.service").YoutubeService; // representative instance{} as import("../../src/services/transcript.service").TranscriptService; // representative instancejest.doMock("../../src/services/cache.service", () => ({@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, googleapis, mongodb, tsx, youtube-transcript-plus, zod, @modelcontextprotocol/inspector, @eslint/js
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
c4d95765d159full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/kirbah__youtube-16.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 | c4d95765d159 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the YouTube MCP server?
High-efficiency YouTube MCP server: Get token-optimized, structured data for your LLMs using the YouTube Data API v3.
Is YouTube safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does YouTube need?
It reads MDB_MCP_CONNECTION_STRING and YOUTUBE_API_KEY from the environment. Give it a token scoped to the least it needs — an agent that can be talked into calling a tool can be talked into calling it with your credentials.
How does YouTube run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @kirbah/mcp-youtube at 1.1.14.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (c4d95765d159), read on 2026-10-09. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.