helpers: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md

text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 13 tokens per session (376 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for summarizing a Hacker News discussion from its URL, including the linked article and selected comments. Hacker News is a technology news site with user discussions below submitted links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a five-point article summary and five thoughtful comment summaries, then check the result with the project’s text linter.
Why use it?
It turns a long article and comment thread into a short set of useful points while filtering out repetitive or low-effort reactions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

This is causify-ai/helpers's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on helpers itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything helpers configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to causify-ai/helpers. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/causify-ai/helpers/master/.claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 376 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00013 $0.00376
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 09304e0e79e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 1mo 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • Summarize a Hacker News discussion for a given topic
  • Follow the bullet point formatting rules in .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Workflow

Read the Input

  • Given a pointer to a discussion on HackerNews in the form of a URL
    • E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Summarize the Article

  • Summarize the main article in 5 bullet points
    # The peril of laziness lost
    - ...
    - ...
    

Summarize the Comments

  • Analyze the Hacker News comment section for the linked article

  • From all comments, summarize the 5 most interesting ones based on the following criteria:

    • Thought-provoking or insightful
    • Presents a unique perspective or uncommon knowledge
    • Sparks discussion or debate
    • Technically informative or educational
    • Controversial but well-argued
    • Do not print the name of the commenter
  • Avoid selecting comments that are:

    • Simple jokes or memes
    • Very short reactions
    • Repetitive or low-effort

Write the Output

  • Do not output any comment on screen
  • Output the result in a file hn.txt without bold or other markdown formatting
  • Run the command:
    > lint_text.py -i hn.txt
    
  • Run the command:
    > cat hn.txt
    

Verification

  • Confirm hn.txt was created and contains no bold or markdown formatting
  • Confirm lint_text.py -i hn.txt completed without errors
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. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +2 tokens per session 09304e0e79e0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A b77ee68ab872

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text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 376 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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