x-collect

x-collect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kangarooking/x-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,376 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for collecting current topics and source material for posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. It uses several rounds of web searches to expand, explore, and organize a subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, find trends and supporting sources, expand search queries, and gather material for creating X posts.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding relevant material and helps broaden research beyond the first obvious search results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to research a topic, find trends and supporting sources, expand search queries, and gather material for creating X posts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kangarooking/x-skills/x-collect
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 kangarooking/x-skills --skill x-collect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kangarooking/x-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,376 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.
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 $0.00070 $0.01376
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00688
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00138

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3f83c893a797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-collect 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 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.

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.

x-collect/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

X Collect

Collect trending topics and research materials for X content creation using a systematic 4-round web search strategy.

Prerequisites

  • WebSearch tool available
  • Internet connection

Optional State (ContextStore)

If available, leverage user preference state to improve search quality:

  • State dir: ~/.claude/skills/x-create/state/
  • Positive samples: liked_topics.json (preferred topics/entities/sources)
  • Negative samples: rejected_topics.json (avoid low-value/repetitive topics)

If state files don't exist, proceed normally.

Workflow

Input

User provides:

  • Topic (required): The subject to research (e.g., "AI Agent最新进展", "Claude 4 发布")
  • Language (optional): Output language, defaults to Chinese (zh-CN)

4-Round Search Strategy

Simulate human research thinking process with progressive depth.

Query expansion rules (lightweight):

  • Start with user topic
  • Add 2-5 query variants based on:
    • User profile (domains/persona if known)
    • liked_topics.json high-frequency keywords/entities (if available)
  • Keep ~20% queries as exploration (cross-domain / adjacent keywords) to avoid information bubble

Dedup & clustering (at the end of each round):

  • Merge near-duplicate URLs/titles
  • Group materials into topic clusters (rough tags are fine)

Round 1: Official Sources (权威信息)

Search: "{topic} 官方文档"
Search: "{topic} GitHub"
Search: "{topic} official announcement"

Goal: Get authoritative first-hand information

Round 2: Technical Analysis (技术解析)

Search: "{topic} 详细介绍"
Search: "{topic} 教程 tutorial"
Search: "{topic} how it works"

Goal: Understand technical details and mechanisms

Round 3: Comparison & Reviews (对比评测)

Search: "{topic} vs {competitor}"
Search: "{topic} 评测 review"
Search: "{topic} pros cons"

Goal: Get different perspectives and comparisons

Round 4: Supplementary Verification (补充验证)

# Analyze gaps from previous rounds
missing_info = analyze_gaps(previous_results)
Search: "{missing_info}"
Search: "{topic} 最新 latest 2024 2025"

Goal: Fill information gaps and get latest updates

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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 · 197 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 3f83c893a797

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x-collect is a skill published in the GitHub repository kangarooking/x-skills (325 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,376 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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