---
title: NotebookLM Rule Categories
version: 1.1.0
spec-version: "2025-11-25"
---

# Rule Categories

## 1. Setup (setup) — HIGH — 1 rule

Authentication, MCP configuration, and session management for notebooklm-mcp-cli.

- `setup-quickstart.md` — Auth, MCP config, session lifetime, verification

## 2. Workflows (workflow) — HIGH/MEDIUM — 5 rules

Patterns for using NotebookLM as an external knowledge tool.

- `workflow-second-brain.md` — Decision documentation, project hub, agent interop
- `workflow-research-offload.md` — Research synthesis, codebase onboarding, token savings
- `workflow-knowledge-base.md` — Debugging KB, security handbook, grounded queries
- `workflow-studio-content.md` — All 10 studio artifact types, video formats/styles, multilingual generation, download, export
- `workflow-batch-pipelines.md` — Cross-notebook queries, batch ops, pipeline, tag (v0.6.1+, label management v0.6.0+)

## 3. Research (research) — HIGH/MEDIUM — 2 rules

Discovery, collaboration, and sharing patterns.

- `workflow-research-discovery.md` — Web/Drive research async flow (start -> status -> import)
- `workflow-sharing-collaboration.md` — Public links, collaborator invites, batch sharing, access control

## 4. Release (release) — HIGH — 1 rule

Per-release knowledge management.

- `workflow-versioned-notebooks.md` — Versioned notebooks with changelog, skill diffs, migration guides
