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AGENTS.md — Agent Developer Guide for twitter-cli

This file provides context for AI agents working in this repository.

Project Overview

• Project: twitter-cli — A CLI for Twitter/X (read timelines, bookmarks, search, post, reply, etc.)
• Language: Python 3.10+
• Package Manager: uv (recommended) / pip
• Repository: https://github.com/jackwener/twitter-cli

Build, Lint, and Test Commands

# Install all dependencies (including dev)
uv sync --extra dev

# Run ruff linter
uv run ruff check .

# Run mypy type checker
uv run mypy twitter_cli

# Run all tests (excludes smoke tests by default)
uv run pytest -q

# Run a single test
uv run pytest tests/test_cli.py::test_feed_command -v

# Run tests matching pattern
uv run pytest -k "test_parse" -v

Code Style

• Line length: 100 characters
• Python version: 3.10+
• Use from __future__ import annotations at top of all .py files
• Functions/variables: snake_case, Classes: PascalCase, Constants: UPPER_SNAKE_CASE
• Private functions: prefix with _
• Use @dataclass for data models (in models.py)
• Use Click framework for CLI commands
• Custom exceptions in exceptions.py, base: TwitterError(RuntimeError)

Project Structure

twitter_cli/
├── cli.py               # Click CLI entry point
├── client.py            # Twitter API client (HTTP)
├── auth.py              # Cookie extraction & auth
├── graphql.py           # GraphQL query IDs
├── parser.py            # Tweet/User parsing
├── models.py            # Dataclass models
├── formatter.py         # Rich table formatting
├── serialization.py     # YAML/JSON output
├── output.py            # Structured output helpers
├── config.py            # Config loading
├── filter.py            # Tweet ranking/scoring
├── constants.py         # Constants
├── exceptions.py        # Custom exceptions
├── cache.py             # Tweet caching
├── search.py            # Search utilities
└── timeutil.py          # Time utilities