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.
npx agentmods add skills/itamarzand88/cli-anything-web/hackernews-clinpx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEBWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00105 | $0.00878 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.00439 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00176 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00088 |
Grade A, and why
hackernews-cli 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
cli-web-hackernews
Hacker News on the command line: browsing and search need no auth; voting, submitting, commenting, favoriting, and hiding need login.
Install: pip install cli-web-hackernews
Commands
Browse (no auth)
stories top|new|best|ask|show|jobs— story feeds. Options:-n/--limit N(default 30)stories view STORY_ID— story + comment tree. Options:-n/--limit N(comments, default 10),--no-commentssearch stories QUERY/search comments QUERY— Algolia search. Options:-n/--limit N(default 20),--page N(0-indexed),--sort-date(by date instead of relevance)user view USERNAME— public profile (karma, member since, about)
Account actions (auth required)
upvote ITEM_ID— upvote a story or commentsubmit -t TITLE [-u URL] [--text BODY]— submit a link, or omit-ufor Ask HNcomment PARENT_ID TEXT— comment on a story or reply to a commentfavorite ITEM_ID/hide ITEM_ID— save / hide a storyuser favorites|submissions|threads [USERNAME]— your activity (or another user's, where public). Options:-n/--limit Nauth login(username/password prompt),auth login-browser,auth status,auth logout
Examples
# Front page, top 10
cli-web-hackernews stories top -n 10 --json
# A story with its first 5 comments
cli-web-hackernews stories view 47530330 -n 5 --json
# Search recent stories about Rust
cli-web-hackernews search stories "rust" --sort-date -n 10 --json
# Submit an Ask HN (requires login)
cli-web-hackernews submit -t "Ask HN: Best CLI tooling?" --text "Looking for recommendations" --json
# Upvote then favorite a story
cli-web-hackernews upvote 47530330 --json && cli-web-hackernews favorite 47530330 --json
JSON output
Add --json for structured output. Stories: {id, title, url, score, by, descendants, age, domain}. Search results: {objectID, title, url, author, points, num_comments}. Users: {id, karma, member_since, about_plain, total_submissions}. Actions: {success, item_id, action}. Errors: {"error": true, "code": "...", "message": "..."}.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 62 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A c1e13034309f
hackernews-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB (216 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 878 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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