Master Hacker News: AI Agent Skill for Claude & Codex

Master Hacker News: AI Agent Skill for Claude & Codex

Master Hacker News is an AI agent skill designed for seamless integration with Claude Code and Codex. This skill enables users to interact with Hacker News, allowing them to search, retrieve, and analyze content such as stories, comments, and user profiles through official key-less APIs.

What this skill does

• Accesses and reads Hacker News using official APIs (Algolia HN Search and Firebase API) without the need for an API key.
• Searches stories or comments with filters for points, comment-count, date, and author.
• Retrieves Hacker News sections like the front page, newest, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job lists in their native order.
• Provides entire comment trees threaded and ranked for individual stories or comments.
• Displays user information, including karma and recent posts.
• Outputs results in multiple formats, including text, Markdown, JSON, or as bare article links.

Who it is for

• Developers using Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex who require timely access to Hacker News content for research or development purposes.
• Technical teams interested in monitoring Hacker News for discussions related to AI, tech news, and industry trends.

Use cases

• Developers looking to identify trends or community sentiment about specific technology or industry topics by searching for related terms on Hacker News.
• Teams wanting to monitor the reception of a product by finding threads associated with its domain or URL.
• Researchers requiring a comprehensive view of all comments related to a particular Hacker News story for analysis.
• Users interested in fetching the latest top stories or engaging content from the Hacker News front page.

Technical details

• Utilizes the Algolia HN Search API for full-text search capabilities and retrieving complete comment threads.
• Incorporates the Firebase API for accessing live lists and visiting user profiles.
• Ensures output is available in preferred formats such as text, Markdown, JSON, or simple links.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by zedxter (zedxter/utility-belt) and distributed under MIT. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, provided the original copyright and licence notice are retained.

Your purchase covers curation, licence verification, packaging, documentation and instant delivery. It does not grant exclusive rights to the underlying open-source code, which remains available under its original licence.

Delivery & Support

• Delivery: instant — a secure download link is emailed to you as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
• Support: support@mcpcart.com — we aim to reply within 2 business days.
• Updates: updates are included only where stated on this page.

Refunds

This is a digital product delivered immediately after purchase. By completing your order you request immediate delivery and acknowledge that, once the download has been accessed, the statutory right to cancel no longer applies to the extent permitted by law. Refund requests are handled in accordance with our published Refund Policy.

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