5mghost-yonder

Standalone YouTube CLI for 5mghost workflows.

Quick Start

npm install -g @mkterswingman/5mghost-yonder
yonder setup
yonder check

yonder setup guides auth, YouTube cookie setup, and local readiness checks. yonder check verifies the current machine is ready to run yonder commands.

Shared first-party auth is stored at ~/.mkterswingman/auth.json, so logging in here also covers other first-party local tools on the same machine. YouTube cookies remain local to yonder state.

Commands

• setup — guided first-time setup
• clip — cut a YouTube input or local video file by start/end time and write an mp4
• check — inspect shared auth, local media readiness, YouTube cookies, and connectivity
• doctor — alias for check
• ensure — check package/runtime readiness; use --auto-update --json for AI sessions
• setup-cookies — open a dedicated Playwright browser profile for manual YouTube login and save cookies locally
• smoke — run yonder readiness smoke checks
• uninstall — remove local yonder config
• update — update the yonder package
• version — print the installed version

Clip a video

yonder clip "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" --start 30 --end 45
yonder clip ./source.mov --start 01:30 --end 01:45 --output ./clip.mp4

If --output is omitted, yonder writes an .mp4 under ~/Downloads/yt-mcp/clips/.

Notes

• yt-mcp may remain available as a legacy command alias during migration, but yonder is the v3 product command.
• Yonder v3 uses npm package distribution as the primary install path.
• Legacy 2.0 installer URLs are not the v3 install path.