web-fetch SKILL.md skillA
web-fetch from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/web-fetch@v1.1.1Pins v1.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mathews-tom/armory
- Path
skills/web-fetch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.1, committed Apr 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 6, 2026
- Size
- 8,774 bytes
- Repository stars
- 341
- License
- MIT
Web content fetching via curl and WebFetch when a specific URL is provided. Covers HTTP GET/POST, JSON APIs, HTML, auth, cookies. Triggers on: "fetch this URL", "download HTML", "call this API", "curl this endpoint". NOT for search, use tavily.
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 All web content retrieval uses `curl` (Bash) or the built-in `WebFetch` tool. No MCP server needed — Claude Code's native tools cover every Fetch MCP operation with more control. ## Quick Reference | Fetch MCP Tool | Replacement | When to Use | | ---------------- | --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | `fetch_html` | `curl -s URL` | Raw HTML needed for parsing | | `fetch_json` | `curl -s URL \| jq '.'` | API responses, structured data | | `fetch_markdown` | `WebFetch` | Readable page content (default output is markdown) | | `fetch_txt` | `curl -s URL` or `WebFetch` | Plain text extraction | **Default choice:** Use `WebFetch` for general page content. Use `curl` when you need headers, authentication, POST bodies, or raw format control. --- ## WebFetch (Built-in Tool) The `WebFetch` tool fetches a URL and returns clean markdown content. It handles JavaScript-rendered pages, strips navigation and boilerplate, and returns readable text. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/web-fetch@sha256:8b510b35866f3875The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.1, 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_vi53onvcvrdbis4k)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 6, 2026 and Apr 11, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.1 latest | 2026-04-11 | 0aa221a | 8,774 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.1 | 2026-04-07 | b03849d | 9,337 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-27 | d46cf2e | 9,337 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-26 | 6fe71e6 | 8,547 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-06 | 2952d82 | 8,464 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 (8774 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
mathews-tom/armory · 341 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vi53onvcvrdbis4k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/web-fetch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b510b35866f3875a49f3bfe0e1704f6229e3596f7b9c8efa47535361694dc07
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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