notebooklm-research

Create or select a notebook, add your sources (URLs, text, Drive, or files), then run a notebook query or start a research job. The synthesis returned keeps every claim linked to its source, and unsourced gaps are flagged as coverage_gap.

Use the cross_notebook_query tool for federated search across several notebooks. List notebooks first with notebook_list to confirm targets exist, since running a cross-notebook query without target notebooks returns zero results.

Use NotebookLM research when you need multi-source synthesis with citations from documents you provide. For live scraping of a single web page, use a web-research approach such as firecrawl instead, since this Skill is a harness over the notebooklm MCP server.

The server must be probed in a live session before use; run notebook_list and check for status:success. If authentication fails, run nlm login in the terminal. In headless runs the server may be absent entirely.

Long-running jobs like research_status and studio_status are polled with a fixed maximum number of attempts. If the job never completes due to quota or timeout, the Skill reports a coverage_gap instead of blocking indefinitely.