read-x-articles SKILL.md skillA
read-x-articles from jpeetz/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/read-x-articles@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpeetz/agent-skills
- Path
skills/documentation-content/read-x-articles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 5,290 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- none declared
Use this skill when a user drops an x.com or twitter.com URL (especially an X Article like /i/article/ID) and expects it read, or says "read this X post/article/thread" in any AI coding agent. Resolves the canonical /i/article/ID URL (which serves plain text) instead of giving up on the login/JS wall that hits profile and /status/ pages. Includes browser-tool and API fallbacks.
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
# Read X (Twitter) Articles Turn any X link a user shares into the full article text. Do NOT default to "I can't read X" — X long-form Articles DO extract cleanly via the right URL. ## When to Use - A user drops an `x.com/...` or `twitter.com/...` link and expects you to read it. - The link is an X **Article** (long-form essay/interview) — canonical path `/i/article/<ID>`. - You need primary source text from an X essay/thread as material for work (e.g. writing, video scripts, analysis). - Anyone claims "X content can't be read" — that is the signal to trigger, not capitulate. ## The core insight (learned 2026-08-12) - X **Articles** are readable end-to-end at the canonical **`https://x.com/i/article/<ID>`** **when fetched by a JS-executing web-extractor / browser tool** — that returns the FULL body, not a snippet. - **Bare HTTP fetch (`urllib`/`curl`) of the article often returns a login/JS shell.** The canonical URL is necessary but a plain request is NOT sufficient — you need a render-capable tool. This is why `web_extract` (SE/agent-grade) succeeds where `curl` fails. - **`/status/<id>` posts and profile pages** are JS-rendered and hit the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/read-x-articles@sha256:6e5f3196d0acdb02The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_mqufo7u2aoaqxhrw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-28 | e711966 | 5,290 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-14 | 5722530 | 5,358 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-31 | 945bdcc | 5,357 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 (5290 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
jpeetz/agent-skills · 16 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mqufo7u2aoaqxhrw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpeetz/agent-skills/read-x-articles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6e5f3196d0acdb021511f23020f1b0863e36363ae5485100820366a9cc44370e
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.