glim

glim is a skill for Claude Code from glim-sh/glim-mcp. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hosted service that gives coding agents live information from sites such as Twitter/X, Reddit, GitHub, Amazon, YouTube and public Telegram channels. It connects through one MCP endpoint, a standard way for tools to communicate with agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with web research, finding posts and comments, reading pages, searching GitHub code and pull requests, checking Amazon products, reading YouTube transcripts and detecting AI-written text.
Why use it?
It avoids building and maintaining separate connections, searches and API credentials for each data source. Agents can retrieve current online information when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Part of the glim plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It helps with web research, finding posts and comments, reading pages, searching GitHub code and pull requests, checking Amazon products, reading YouTube transcripts and detecting AI-written text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glim-sh/glim-mcp/glim
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 glim-sh/glim-mcp --skill glim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glim-sh/glim-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install glim, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,306 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.
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 $0.00095 $0.01306
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00653
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00131

Measured 10d ago against content hash b062ca2a4ae3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glim 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 10d 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.

Every tool is also a plain REST endpoint under `https://glim.sh/api/v1/`, gated by the same x402/MPP payment challenges. Full spec: [glim.sh/openapi.json](https://glim.sh/openapi.json). Use `npx x402-proxy <url>` as a pa
plugins/glim/skills/glim/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Glim

Glim is a hosted MCP server that gives agents live external data: Twitter/X, Reddit, web search and page extraction, GitHub, Amazon, YouTube transcripts, public Telegram channels, and AI-text detection. One endpoint, fourteen tools, pay per call. No API keys to provision or rotate.

If glim_* tools are already available in your session, skip to Tools and use them directly.

Connect

Add the endpoint to any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "glim": {
      "url": "https://glim.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add -s user -t http glim https://glim.sh/mcp

On first use the client runs a browser OAuth sign-in. Manage your balance and top up at glim.sh/app; every call is billed against that balance at the prices below.

Restrict the tool list per session with the ?tools= query parameter:

https://glim.sh/mcp?tools=glim_twitter_search,glim_web_fetch

Headless fallback: pay per call with a crypto wallet

No browser or account needed. Calls are paid from a local wallet via the x402 protocol (USDC on Base or Solana):

npx x402-proxy setup                              # one-time: generate or import a wallet
npx x402-proxy wallet info                        # show address + USDC balance
npx x402-proxy mcp add glim https://glim.sh/mcp   # register glim in your MCP client behind a paying proxy

Fund the address shown by wallet info with USDC on Base or Solana. Tool calls then auto-pay on HTTP 402 challenges. MPP (Tempo) is also accepted on the same endpoint.

Tools

Tool Price Use for
glim_twitter_search $0.005 Search tweets with advanced operators
glim_twitter_get $0.005 Tweet with thread context, or user profile, by URL/id/handle
glim_reddit_search $0.01 Search Reddit posts
glim_reddit_get $0.015 Post + comments, subreddit feed, or user activity
glim_web_search $0.01 Semantic web search (Exa)
glim_web_fetch $0.002 Clean page extraction (handles SSR, SPA shells, PDFs)
glim_github_search $0.002 Search GitHub repos, conversations, or code
glim_github_get $0.002 Repo metadata, files, history, PRs, issues
glim_amazon_search $0.005 Search Amazon listings with prices, ratings, ASINs
glim_amazon_get $0.01 Amazon product detail by ASIN
glim_youtube_get $0.01 YouTube subtitles/transcript by video id
glim_telegram_search $0.01 Discover public Telegram channels by name or topic
glim_telegram_get $0.005 Channel posts, in-channel history search, or post + discussion comments
glim_detect_ai from $0.06 Score text for AI authorship, segment by segment

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 10d ago First seen · 98 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A b062ca2a4ae3

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glim is a skill published in the GitHub repository glim-sh/glim-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,306 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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