I gave Claude 300 Huberman episodes. Now he's my health coach.

Open Claude Code in the desktop app + start a project

Grab the Claude desktop app from claude.com/download and sign in with your Pro or Max account.

Inside the app, click + New chat, then find Claude Code in the sidebar and click Add project. When it asks for a folder, pick or create one called coach in your home directory. That folder is where everything lives — Claude reads and writes here.

Paste this — Claude installs everything for you

You don't need to know what these tools are. Claude will install them, verify they work, and tell you if anything failed. In your fresh Claude Code chat, paste:

› Install everything I need to run the notebooklm-coach skill:
  1. uv (the Python package manager)
  2. the notebooklm-mcp-cli tool
  3. the notebooklm-py tool with browser support
  4. the Chromium browser playwright needs
  
  Then verify each is installed and tell me what you see.

Claude will run the install commands one by one in your terminal, ask you to allow each, and report back. If anything errors, paste the error message back in and ask it to fix.

Paste this — log in to NotebookLM (the only hands-on bit)

Logging in opens browser windows that Claude can't click for you. But Claude runs the commands and guides you through what to do in each browser window. Paste:

› Help me log in to NotebookLM. There are two CLIs that need
  separate logins (nlm and notebooklm). Walk me through both,
  make sure I'm using the SAME Google account on each, then
  verify both logins worked before we move on.

Paste this — Claude installs the skill

The skill itself is a folder on GitHub. Claude clones it into the right place and tells you to restart the app so it picks up the new skill:

› Install the notebooklm-coach skill from
  https://github.com/artemnovitckii/notebooklm-coach
  into my Claude Code skills directory, then tell me how to
  restart the app so it picks up the skill.

Once you restart the desktop app and open your coach project again, type /skills in chat to confirm notebooklm is listed.

Paste this — load your expert into a notebook

Now the fun part. Pick your channel (Huberman, Lenny, whoever) and paste:

› Load this YouTube channel into a new NotebookLM notebook
  called "huberman health":
  https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab
  
  I'm on free NotebookLM, so only load the 50 most recent
  episodes. (If you have Plus/Pro, say "load the 300 most
  recent episodes" instead.)

Claude scrapes the channel, creates the notebook, and bulk-uploads the episodes (~3–8 min). It'll narrate progress and tell you when to wait for NotebookLM to finish indexing (~5 more min after upload).

Paste this — Claude interviews you and writes your protocol

Tell Claude your goal in plain English. It queries the notebook with your situation, runs an interview, and writes a 4-week protocol with experiments you can track. Paste:

› I want to improve my HRV. Interview me using the huberman
  notebook, then build me a 4-week protocol with experiments
  I can track. Cite every recommendation back to a specific
  episode so I can verify it.

What comes back:

• Cited interview — every question Claude asks links to the exact episode + passage it came from. You can click and verify.
• 4-week protocol — your goal split into weekly experiments with measurable outcomes.
• Experiment files — one markdown file per move in your coach folder, with start date, end date, source episode, check-in cadence.

Once you have the protocol, keep going: "rewrite assuming I can only train 3x/week", "what does Huberman say specifically about cold exposure for HRV?", "merge in my whoop data and adjust".

(Optional) Drop in your Whoop or Apple Health data — protocol gets personal

The protocol from step 06 is built on the expert's research alone. To make it actually yours, feed in your real biometrics — recovery scores, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, workouts. Claude reads them straight from a file in your coach folder.

Whoop — export from whoop.com/account/data (Account → My Data → Export). You get a zip with CSVs. Unzip it and drop the folder into your coach project.

Apple Health — on iPhone, open the Health app → tap your profile (top right) → Export All Health Data. Share the resulting export.zip to your Mac (AirDrop is easiest). Unzip and drop the folder into your coach project too.

Then paste:

› I just dropped my Whoop export (or Apple Health export)
  into this project. Read the last 30 days of recovery, sleep,
  and HRV data, summarize my baseline + trends, then rewrite
  my 4-week protocol so each weekly experiment targets the
  biggest gap you see in my data. Cite the Huberman episode
  behind each adjustment.

Claude finds patterns you'd miss in the noise — mine surfaced "HRV consistently tanks the day after Zyns past 2pm" from cross-referencing the daily logs with Huberman's episode on nicotine + sleep.

(Optional) Paste this — set up the morning check-in with Obsidian

The basic loop works without Obsidian — Claude writes experiment files into your coach folder either way. But Obsidian + the morning-routine skill turns it into a coach that checks in on you daily.

Install Obsidian and open your coach folder as a vault. Then paste:

› Set up the morning-routine skill from the notebooklm-coach
  repo and wire it into my Obsidian vault. Make sure the
  Dataview plugin is enabled. Then explain how I trigger the
  daily check-in.

After that, every morning you just type "morning check-in" in Claude Code. It pulls your Whoop / Oura data (if connected), asks how the day went, updates the experiments, writes a daily log.