social-fetch

social-fetch is a skill for Claude Code from jedi4ever/social-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (5,927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for fetching and searching content from social networks, developer sites, video platforms, newsletters, academic-paper sites, RSS feeds, and ordinary web articles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read posts and articles, search supported platforms, ask research questions, and retrieve timelines from services such as Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, arXiv, and X.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a consistent way to gather online information as clean Markdown or structured data across many sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is # Batch from a file → one .md file per URL in ./out/.

Part of the social-skills plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to read posts and articles, search supported platforms, ask research questions, and retrieve timelines from services such as Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, arXiv, and X.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jedi4ever/social-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jedi4ever/social-skills/social-fetch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install social-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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-fetch

README.md
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Your own site
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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-fetch

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,927 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 $0.00136 $0.05927
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.02964
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00593

Measured 12d ago against content hash bd70fb261ed8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-fetch 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 12d 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.

**Trust the CLI.** It is the authority for every fetch and search supported by this skill. Always shell out to `social-fetch` — never reimplement fetching with WebFetch, curl, custom parsers, or hand-rolled API calls, ev
extensions/claude-code/skills/social-fetch/SKILL.md · 399 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 399 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

social-fetch skill

Wraps the social-fetch Go binary on the user's PATH (install separately — see the plugin README).

Trust the CLI. It is the authority for every fetch and search supported by this skill. Always shell out to social-fetch — never reimplement fetching with WebFetch, curl, custom parsers, or hand-rolled API calls, even if the binary returns empty results or an error you find surprising. If a fetch comes back empty, surface that to the user and (if appropriate) re-run with --log - to see audit lines, but do not try to "fix it" by going around the CLI.

Before invoking any provider, run social-fetch list to see which platforms are usable in this environment. Each provider is tagged with one of three states:

  • [ok] — fully configured, fire away
  • [!auth] — required env var not set; the row's suffix names which one (e.g. → missing BRAVE_API_KEY). Do not use these providers — pick a different one in the same category. Suggesting the user configure the missing key is fine only if they explicitly ask how; don't proactively nag them about every unset key.
  • [bridge] — needs the local browser bridge (LinkedIn / Medium / Substack / linkedin search & timeline). Only use after social-fetch bridge status reports connected.

The auto provider chains (-p auto) already skip unconfigured providers, so they're safe — but when an explicit provider name is needed (e.g. the user asks "search Twitter"), check list first to confirm [ok] status before invoking. For the MCP shape see social_fetch_list_providers — same data, structured as {name, status, missing} per category.

For platform-specific quirks, run social-fetch hints (no argument — dumps every platform's hints in one shot) before a search/fetch you haven't done recently. Captures things like "X recent search caps at 7 days strictly", "LinkedIn temp-bans accounts that scrape too fast", "Reddit anonymous search has worse relevance than tavily site:reddit.com". Pass a specific platform name to scope the output (e.g. hints x).

Read the full file on GitHub · 399 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. 12d ago First seen · 399 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A bd70fb261ed8

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social-fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository jedi4ever/social-skills (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 5,927 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.