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x-hacker-news

v1.0.4

Fetch and analyze Hacker News (HN) content - the premier tech community for developers, AI researchers, and software engineers. Use when users need: (1) HN t...

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by@qiakai
MIT-0
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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Purpose & Capability
Name/description claim to fetch and analyze Hacker News; the SKILL.md only uses x-cmd (x hn, x jq) to list/filter HN stories and user info. Required file (~/.x-cmd.root/X) is consistent with needing the x-cmd environment.
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Instruction Scope
Instructions instruct the agent (and the user) to source ~/.x-cmd.root/X and then run x hn/x jq commands. This stays within the stated purpose, but sourcing that init script will execute arbitrary shell code in the user's environment — the skill does not provide the script itself, so the user must ensure the script is trusted.
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Install Mechanism
Instruction-only skill with no install spec or packaged downloads. No files are written by the skill itself, minimizing install-time risk.
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Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or unrelated config paths. The only required path is the x-cmd init script which is necessary for the x-cmd-based commands the skill uses.
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Persistence & Privilege
always is false and the skill does not request persistent system privileges or modify other skills. Autonomous invocation (model invocation enabled) is the platform default and not a special risk here.
Assessment
This skill is coherent for fetching and filtering Hacker News using x-cmd. Before using it, make sure you trust the x-cmd source and inspect the file ~/.x-cmd.root/X (it will be executed in your shell when sourced). If you don't trust that script, either install x-cmd from a verified source first or use direct HN API tools (curl/jq) instead. Note: the skill requests no secrets or credentials.

Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.

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License

MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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