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name: notebooklm description: "Use the nlm CLI to talk to NotebookLM notebooks. Activate when the user mentions NotebookLM, notebook, knowledge base, or asks to chat with their notebooks."

NotebookLM CLI

Use nlm to list notebooks, select a target, and ask questions via generate-chat or chat.

Workflow

1. Verify CLI

   • command -v nlm (if missing, ask how they want to install)

2. Verify auth

   • Check ~/.nlm/env or env vars NLM_AUTH_TOKEN, NLM_COOKIES
   • If missing, run:
     • nlm auth --all --notebooks
     • If profiles are locked: NLM_USE_ORIGINAL_PROFILE=1 nlm auth --all --notebooks --debug
   • If auth still fails, fail fast and ask the user to complete browser login manually

3. Select notebook

   • nlm list (shows recent)
   • Ask user to pick an ID if not provided

4. Interact

   • Headless single question: nlm generate-chat <notebook-id> "<prompt>"
   • Interactive session: nlm chat <notebook-id>
   • Source-based transformations: ask for source IDs, then use summarize, explain, outline, faq, briefing-doc, timeline, toc

5. Guardrails

   • Always confirm before destructive operations: rm, rm-source, rm-note, delete-artifact, audio-rm
   • Confirm before privacy-impacting actions: share (public) and share-private

Quick commands

Copynlm list
nlm generate-chat <notebook-id> "Question about my knowledge base"
nlm chat <notebook-id>

Notes

• If user says "talk to my knowledge base", ask which notebook ID to use.
• No implicit state: do not assume a last-used notebook.