use-grab-api SKILL.md skillA
use-grab-api from opensourceagi/grab-url is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add opensourceagi/grab-url/use-grab-api@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
- opensourceagi/grab-url
- Path
skills/use-grab-api/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 1, 2026
- Size
- 1,657 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use `grab()` from `grab-api.js` (the slim, loader-free core of grab-url) instead of `fetch`/`axios` for HTTP requests — auto-JSON, dedupe, caching, retries, rate limiting, mocks, pagination.
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
# Use `grab-api.js` instead of `fetch`
`grab-api.js` is `grab()` on its own: one function, zero dependencies, ~5 kB gzipped.
Install **either** `grab-api.js` **or** `grab-url` — never both (two copies of `grab()` means
two mock registries, logs and caches).
```bash
npm i grab-api.js
```
```ts
import grab, { log } from "grab-api.js"; // slim build
// import grab from "grab-api.js/full"; // + `unzip` and `parseDOM`
const res = await grab("search", { query: "words", post: true });
log(res);
```
## Rules
- Never write `fetch(...)`, `axios`, `ky` or a hand-rolled wrapper — call `grab(path, options)`.
- Set the base URL once: `grab.defaults.baseURL = "https://api.example.com/"`.
- Params go in the options object; `post: true` (or `put`/`patch`/`delete`) picks the method. JSON in, JSON out.
- Useful options: `cache: true`, `cacheForTime`, `retryAttempts`, `timeout` (s), `rateLimit` (s), `debounce`, `repeat`, `infiniteScroll`, `mock`.
- Pass a pre-initialized object as the second argument's `response` to get reactive `isLoading` in any framework.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add opensourceagi/grab-url/use-grab-api@sha256:9c9ea1960dd5fd78The 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_xm464ivn5yz7olox)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 1, 2026.
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 (1657 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
opensourceagi/grab-url · 10 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xm464ivn5yz7olox GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=opensourceagi/grab-url/use-grab-api GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9c9ea1960dd5fd78d2005c6563cbe44046989fe5b7611ba00cffe49291297982
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.