Who it's for
You want the materials, not the membership.
The worksheets, the templates, the three lessons you'll come back to. Save them, cancel when you're done, and keep what you paid for.
You can't watch it all before the renewal.
Twelve hours of video is three weekends. The takeaways for every lesson take an evening to read.
You already know half of it.
Every lesson gets a verdict: watch, skim or skip. You open the few videos that show something the notes can't.
What it found on a real course
I ran it on a paid community I'm a member of: a sales and agency program sold as four classrooms. The creator stays unnamed; the numbers are as measured.
- 184 lessons, 12.1 hours of video
- 6 videos worth opening: 69 minutes
- 4 classrooms in the same community
- 3 were the same videos, repackaged (97 to 100%)
- 61 resources attached to lessons
- 23 saved as files; 38 only links; 5 with affiliate codes
The course wasn't bad. Most of what the videos said was already in the written notes under each lesson, and three of the four classrooms were the same videos under new names. The six worth opening were the ones where the screen showed something the notes couldn't: a build, a dashboard, a template being filled in.
Most of a course is already in its notes. The skill finds the part that isn't.
What you end up with
A folder you can open in a year without the login. Plain text and PDFs, so any editor, any search, and any AI can read it.
<community>/
CATALOG.md every classroom, and what overlaps with what
<classroom-name>/
STUDY_GUIDE.md every lesson, key points first. Start here.
MATERIALS.md files saved, and the links to copy before access ends
report.html what's worth your time, and why
lessons/ write-up, takeaways, materials, transcript
materials/ worksheets as PDF, sheets, images
audio/ video/ if you chose videoEvery lesson opens with its takeaways. Here's the shape of one, with a lesson made up for this page:
012 · Following up without being annoying
Watch the video? Skip: a talking head, nothing beyond these notes.
Four follow-ups over twelve days, each one adding something new instead of checking in.
- Send them on days 2, 5, 9 and 12 after the first message.
- Each carries a new reason to reply: a result, a question, something useful.
- After the fourth, stop and move the lead to a monthly list.
Do this: write all four as templates before you send the first.
How it runs
Install it once
You need Claude Code and the Claude in Chrome extension, with Chrome logged in to the community. Then move the skill folder to where Claude Code looks for skills, and start Claude Code with Chrome connected. The download link comes by email.
Install, in a terminal
# unzip the download, then: mv ax-skool-harvest ~/.claude/skills/ # start Claude Code with Chrome connected claude --chrome
That's all you install. The skill also needs yt-dlp, ffmpeg and mlx-whisper for downloading and transcribing. On its first run it checks for them, tells you what's missing, and installs it once you say yes.
Give it the classroom
Open the classroom in Chrome, logged in, and copy the address. Any lesson in it works, even one halfway through. Then, in Claude Code:
Run it
/ax-skool-harvest https://www.skool.com/<community>/classroom/<id>
It asks one question first: audio only, or the videos too. Audio is enough for everything you read. Pick video if you want to rewatch offline.
It reads the classroom in your Chrome
Through the Claude in Chrome extension, Claude opens the classroom in your own Chrome, where you're already logged in, and reads it lesson by lesson: about two seconds a lesson. No password, no cookies, nothing for you to paste. In Codex, which can't drive Chrome, you paste two short snippets into the browser console instead.
One Chrome quirk: it allows a single automatic download per site. On your second classroom it may block the export. Click the blocked-download icon in the address bar, choose Allow multiple files, and the skill carries on. It tells you when this happens.
Let it work
It downloads the audio, transcribes it on your Mac, saves the materials, and writes takeaways for every lesson. Then it checks that every transcript and file belongs to the lesson it's filed under. If you've already saved another classroom from the same community, it matches the videos and skips everything it has seen.
Read the study guide, open the few videos
Start with STUDY_GUIDE.md: every lesson in order, key points first, the videos worth opening listed at the top. In Claude the report is published as a private page; anywhere else, report.html opens in any browser.
Then MATERIALS.md. Anything listed as a link lives on someone else's account. If you need it, make your own copy before your access ends.
Ready to run it?
Enter your email and the download link is in your inbox in a minute, with the setup written out.
First to know when a new guide, tool or skill drops.
What it needs
- The agent
- Claude Code, in your terminal. It doesn't run in the Claude app. Codex works too, with one manual step in the browser.
- The browser
- Chrome with the Claude in Chrome extension, logged in to the community.
- The tools
- yt-dlp and ffmpeg to download, mlx-whisper to transcribe. You don't install them yourself: on the first run the skill checks, tells you what's missing, and installs it once you say yes.
- The machine
- A Mac with Apple Silicon. Transcription runs on it, and nothing leaves it.
- Disk
- About half a gigabyte per 12 hours of course. Four with the videos.
- Time
- Around an hour and a half for a 12-hour course, most of it transcription. You don't sit with it.
The rules it keeps
- Only communities you pay for. It works through your own logged-in browser, so it can't open anything you can't.
- One classroom per run, never the whole community.
- It never asks for your password and never reads your cookies.
- It's for your own study. Don't share or resell what you download; the course is still the creator's work. Some communities forbid downloads in their terms, and their rules apply.
Questions
Does it still work after I cancel?
The archive does: it's plain files on your machine, text, PDFs and audio. Running the skill needs access, so run it before your last day.
Do I need to download the videos?
No. Audio is enough for the transcripts and the takeaways, and it's an eighth of the size. You can add the videos later; it picks up where it stopped.
What does the AI actually read?
Each lesson's written notes and its transcript. It writes the takeaways in its own words, gives the verdict with a reason, and says so when the course contradicts itself: numbers that don't add up, or two lessons that disagree.
What about the worksheets and links?
Images and Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are saved as files when the creator shared them by link. Miro boards, Canva templates and custom GPTs can't be saved as files, so they're listed, with the lessons that use them, for you to copy while you still have access.
Will it work on my classroom?
It has been run on four classrooms in one community, with Vimeo and Loom videos. Skool changes, and every community is set up a little differently. If yours breaks, reply to the email the skill came in with what it said.
Keep what you paid for
The skill, free, by email. Run it on the classroom you're paying for this month.
First to know when a new guide, tool or skill drops.
That's one job handed to an agent: hours of watching, done while you do something else. What else AI takes off your plate, level by level, is on the map.