bird-fast

bird-fast is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (2,317 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A terminal tool for reading, searching, and posting on X/Twitter using an existing browser login.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to post tweets and replies, read or analyze threads, search content, and monitor mentions from scripts or the command line.
Why use it?
It lets scripts work with X/Twitter without setting up API keys or OAuth. It also avoids manually handling browser sessions for each task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to post tweets and replies, read or analyze threads, search content, and monitor mentions from scripts or the command line.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/bird-fast
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill bird-fast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,317 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.
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 $0.00049 $0.02317
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01158
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00232

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5255f973de85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bird-fast 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 11d 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.

skills/bird-fast/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bird CLI

A command-line interface for X/Twitter that authenticates via your existing browser session — no API keys or OAuth setup required.

Overview

bird is a TypeScript-based CLI that uses Twitter's internal GraphQL API with automatic query ID management. It extracts authentication cookies from Safari, Chrome, or Firefox.

Key Features:

  • Zero-config authentication via browser cookies
  • Full tweet lifecycle: post, reply, read, search
  • Media uploads (images, GIFs, videos) with alt text
  • Multiple output formats (human-readable, JSON, plain)
  • Automatic GraphQL query ID refresh and REST API fallback

When to Use

  • Posting tweets or replies from scripts or automation
  • Reading and analyzing tweet threads programmatically
  • Searching for mentions or specific content
  • Monitoring Twitter activity from the CLI

Prerequisites

  • Node.js >= 22 OR Homebrew (for standalone binary)
  • Browser login: Must be logged into x.com in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox

Installation

# npm
npm install -g @steipete/bird

# pnpm
pnpm add -g @steipete/bird

# bun
bun add -g @steipete/bird

# Homebrew (macOS — standalone binary, no Node.js required)
brew install steipete/tap/bird

# One-shot execution (no install)
bunx @steipete/bird whoami
npx @steipete/bird whoami

Authentication

bird uses a three-tier priority chain:

Priority Source How to Set
1 (highest) CLI flags --auth-token, --ct0
2 Environment variables AUTH_TOKEN, CT0 (or TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN, TWITTER_CT0)
3 (default) Browser cookies Auto-extracted from Safari → Chrome → Firefox

Verify authentication:

bird whoami    # Shows authenticated user
bird check     # Shows credential source

Quick Start

# Post a tweet
bird tweet "Hello from the terminal!"

# Read a tweet
bird read https://x.com/user/status/1234567890123456789

# Reply to a tweet
bird reply 1234567890123456789 "Great point!"

# Search tweets
bird search "from:elonmusk" -n 20

# View your mentions
bird mentions

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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. 11d ago First seen · 335 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5255f973de85

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bird-fast is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,317 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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