x-twitter-viral-radar

x-twitter-viral-radar is a skill for Codex from agentrhq/agent-automation-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (3,050 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A local scheduled tool that scans an authenticated X/Twitter For You timeline, scores posts for signs of rapidly spreading attention, and sends alerts to a webhook destination.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up, checking, tuning, troubleshooting, or removing scans that send selected X/Twitter alerts to Discord, Slack, or another webhook.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to watch the timeline manually and records delivered posts so repeated alerts can be avoided.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for setting up, checking, tuning, troubleshooting, or removing scans that send selected X/Twitter alerts to Discord, Slack, or another webhook.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentrhq/agent-automation-skills/x-twitter-viral-radar
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add agentrhq/agent-automation-skills --skill x-twitter-viral-radar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentrhq/agent-automation-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,050 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00112 $0.03050
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01525
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00305

Measured 12d ago against content hash a2d670b152ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

x-twitter-viral-radar scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/viral-timeline-template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 600 ~/.viral-radar/config.env
skills/x-twitter-viral-radar/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

X/Twitter Viral Radar

X/Twitter Viral Radar installs a user-owned cron job on this machine. Everything under ~/.viral-radar/ belongs to the user, and the scheduled runs execute plain local Python only — they never invoke an LLM, an agent, or this skill. Your job is to set that automation up correctly (or inspect, tune, and remove it), then get out of the way.

Files the automation uses:

Path Purpose
~/.viral-radar/viral-timeline.py The scan script (copied from scripts/viral-timeline-template.py)
~/.viral-radar/config.env Settings + webhook URL (mode 0600)
~/.viral-radar/state.sqlite3 Delivery log used for deduplication
~/.viral-radar/output/ One JSON evidence file per run
~/.viral-radar/logs/ viral-radar.log (stdout) and viral-radar.err (stderr)

Route by what the user needs:

  • Set it upInstall
  • "Is it working?"Verify
  • Change schedule, thresholds, or destinationUpdate
  • Errors, missed alerts, duplicates, cron not firing → read references/troubleshooting.md
  • UninstallRemoval

How detection works

Understanding the detector lets you explain alerts and tune thresholds with the user instead of treating the numbers as magic.

Each run fetches up to VIRAL_RADAR_LIMIT posts from the For You timeline and keeps those newer than VIRAL_RADAR_CUTOFF_HOURS. Each post gets an engagement score weighted toward signals that indicate genuine conversation:

engagement = likes + 3*retweets + 9*replies + 7*quotes + 5*bookmarks
normalized_score = engagement / views ^ VIRAL_RADAR_VIEW_EXPONENT

Dividing by views^exponent rewards posts whose engagement is high relative to reach — a fast-moving post from a small account outranks a celebrity post with passive views. A post alerts when its normalized score exceeds VIRAL_RADAR_THRESHOLD. Posts younger than VIRAL_RADAR_FRESH_HOURS are all eligible; if none qualify, only the single newest older qualifier is sent, so a backlog never floods the webhook.

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 257 lines · 112 tokens per session scan B a2d670b152ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

x-twitter-viral-radar is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentrhq/agent-automation-skills (2 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 3,050 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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