Watching technical tutorials on YouTube usually ends the same frustrating way. You pause the video, copy code off the screen by eye, alt-tab to your editor, realize your setup does not match the presenter's, and lose the thread entirely. Most video collateral is sitting there inert. Someone watches it, and that is the end of the transaction.
Prompt Track changes that. It turns ordinary YouTube videos into structured, interactive courseware by attaching a timestamped sidecar of authored cues directly to the footage.
As the video plays, it automatically pauses itself at key moments to hand you the exact steps, code snippets, notes, or quizzes designed for that moment. Even better, it connects directly to Claude. That gives the AI full awareness of where you are in the video, what is on screen right now, and what setup choices you have made.
Instead of guessing, you can simply ask Claude mid-watch:
"What step am I on?" "Why does this command use that flag?" "Give me this snippet in Python instead." "Quiz me on what we just covered."
The core design philosophy is total friction reduction. Everything is packaged into a single MCPB file, which installs into Claude Desktop with little more than a single click. There are no API keys to configure, no cloud accounts to link, no Node environments to manage, and zero Docker setup required. You install the MCPB file, open a browser tab, select a script to run, hit play, and Claude Desktop talks straight to the local player running on your machine.
I have bundled a complete demonstration track built around the Spaceballs 2 teaser into the repo. It comes complete with branching paths, custom AI personas, and live quizzes to show you everything the schema can do.
I have even included an LLM installation and usage prompt. Instead of following lengthy written instructions, get an LLM to talk you through installation and usage at your pace.
Prompt Track is an open-source tool built to turn passive video into an active, instructed course. Grab the file, run through a track, and let me know how it works for you.