social-data

social-data is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop. It costs 19 tokens per session (935 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for searching and retrieving public posts from Twitter/X, Reddit, and Hacker News, including Hacker News search through Algolia.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find stories, comments, discussions, authors, links, scores, and comment counts about programming or other topics on these platforms.
Why use it?
It avoids building separate requests and response handling for each social platform. Some sources need API keys, while Hacker News and public Reddit data can be accessed without one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find stories, comments, discussions, authors, links, scores, and comment counts about programming or other topics on these platforms.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data
About the project

Bitterbot is a local-first personal AI agent that runs on a user’s devices, keeps persistent memories, performs tasks, and can exchange reusable skills with other agents. It is intended for people who want a personal assistant that remains available across conversations and activities. The catalogue entries provide instructions and agents for working with Bitterbot.

Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop · 2,461 stars · on GitHub · bitterbot.ai

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 Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill social-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for social-data

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for social-data

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/social-data.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 935 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 83
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 100
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 107
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00019 $0.00935
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00467
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash 77ccc7f07eb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-data scanned grade A 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 9d ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" | head -c 200
skills/social-data/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Social Data

Access social media content from multiple platforms. Some require API keys, some are free.

Hacker News (free, no key)

Top Stories

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" | head -c 200

Returns array of item IDs. Fetch individual items:

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/12345678.json"

Search (via Algolia, free)

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=rust+programming&tags=story&hitsPerPage=10"
  • tags: story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, poll
  • numericFilters: created_at_i>1700000000 (Unix timestamp)
  • Response: hits[] array with title, url, author, points, num_comments

Front Page

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=30"

Reddit (free, no key for public data)

Subreddit Posts

curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/hot.json?limit=10" \
  -H "User-Agent: bitterbot/1.0"

Sort options: hot, new, top, rising For top: add ?t=hour|day|week|month|year|all

Search Reddit

curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=rust+async&sort=relevance&limit=10" \
  -H "User-Agent: bitterbot/1.0"

Post Comments

curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/POST_ID.json" \
  -H "User-Agent: bitterbot/1.0"

Response is array of two listings: [0] = post, [1] = comments tree.

User Profile (public)

curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/user/USERNAME/submitted.json?limit=10" \
  -H "User-Agent: bitterbot/1.0"

Twitter/X (requires API key)

Requires TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN env var (from X Developer Portal).

Search Recent Tweets

curl -s "https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/recent?query=from:elonmusk&max_results=10&tweet.fields=created_at,public_metrics" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN"

Query operators:

  • from:username — tweets by user
  • to:username — replies to user
  • #hashtag — hashtag search
  • "exact phrase" — exact match
  • -is:retweet — exclude retweets
  • lang:en — language filter
  • has:media — tweets with media

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 77ccc7f07eb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

social-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop (2,461 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 935 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

selfhost-emem-guard

Stand up an emem-guard verdict server, verify it against the conformance checks, and point any agent at it. Use when asked to self-host emem-guard, add a grounding gate to an agent on any model or framework, wire a checkpoint into Claude Code or Claude Enterprise or MCP, or run a signed allow/deny server for…

Vortx-AI/emem · 81 tokens

emem-field-tokens

Get a native-resolution raster field over an area from emem, or a field over time, as a signed, verifiable artifact rather than a set of per-cell scalars. Use when the user needs the actual grid of values over an area of interest (a world model input, an NDVI/band drape, change analysis over a scene window, exportable…

Vortx-AI/emem · 0 tokens

emem-a2a-collaboration

Join the agent-to-agent collaboration running on emem's signed ledger — find the standard, verify another agent's message offline (who wrote it, not just that it was stored), announce yourself, and hand facts to other agents as tokens. Use when the user wants agents to coordinate without a shared database or shared…

Vortx-AI/emem · 121 tokens

emem-find-similar

Given a place name or cell64, return the top-K most similar places on Earth by cosine similarity over the 128-D Tessera foundation embedding. Use when the user asks for analogues, look-alikes, or counterparts ("find cities like Bangalore", "where else looks like the Sundarbans", "show me places with a similar urban…

Vortx-AI/emem · 96 tokens

emem-locate-and-recall

Resolve a free-form place name to an emem cell64 and recall signed Earth-observation facts at that location. Use when the user asks about current weather, vegetation index, elevation, soil properties, or any other geospatial measurement at a named place ("what's the temperature in Bengaluru", "how high is Denali"…

Vortx-AI/emem · 109 tokens

emem-recall-polygon

Recall signed Earth-observation facts at every cell inside a user-supplied polygon. Use when the user asks about an extent rather than a point — "what's the average NDVI inside this watershed", "show me precipitation across the Western Ghats", "what's the elevation profile of this region". Accepts a polygon as [lng…

Vortx-AI/emem · 99 tokens