web-fetch SKILL.md skillA
web-fetch from archibate/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add archibate/agent-skills/web-fetch@git:20261004.16d6d0aPins git:20261004.16d6d0a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- archibate/agent-skills
- Path
skills/web-fetch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261004.16d6d0a, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 3, 2026
- Size
- 2,817 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Fetch page content as agent-readable markdown — articles, docs, READMEs, blogs, social posts, and academic papers. Use this skill WHENEVER you want to read text content from an URL or link. Also use when curl returns noisy, truncated, or refused results.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Web Fetch Work down this fallback ladder in order. Each step is only tried when prior steps don't apply or fail. ## Fallback ladder 1. **Raw `.md` / `.txt` / plain-text URL** → `curl -sL <url>` (already clean, no HTML to strip) 2. **Route lookup** → search `references/routes.md` with `rg` for the full hostname or its parent-domain suffixes. For an identifier, recognized platform, or requested extraction operation, search by route key (for example `RFC`, `DOI`, `MediaWiki`, `Discourse`, `WordPress`, or `Gitea/Forgejo`). Use the matching route before falling through 3. **Docs page** → try `curl -sL <url>.md`. Mintlify and other docs platforms serve clean markdown on the `.md` route — if the response is `text/markdown`, you're done; otherwise fall through 4. **Blog / newsletter / multi-post index** → try RSS first: `curl -sL <url>/feed` (also `/rss`, `/feed.xml`, `/atom.xml`, `/index.xml`). Most static-site generators and CMS platforms expose one; RSS gives you clean `<content:encoded>` or `<summary>` bodies without chrome 5. **Site that you know how to fetch elegently** → try it → append to `references/routes.md` after verified working …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add archibate/agent-skills/web-fetch@sha256:293a07ebb3ee008aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.16d6d0a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_am5xsotrspibr57l)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261004.16d6d0a latest | 2026-10-04 | 16d6d0a | 2,817 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.3da3d16 | 2026-10-03 | 3da3d16 | 2,994 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2817 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
archibate/agent-skills · 16 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_am5xsotrspibr57l GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=archibate/agent-skills/web-fetch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/293a07ebb3ee008a69a711bc0c4e04d18e4b8ae48a6589bfd131864f586aeb16
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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