itchio-new-game-hunt

itchio-new-game-hunt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kennyzir/7deer_skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (5,179 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding newly released browser-playable games on itch.io, a platform for independent games. It ranks candidates for building search-oriented websites around them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Crawling itch.io’s newest games, filtering playable releases, checking demand, assessing competitors, and producing a shortlist.
Why use it?
It narrows a large stream of new games by checking browser playability, search interest, and competition.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Crawling itch.io’s newest games, filtering playable releases, checking demand, assessing competitors, and producing a shortlist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kennyzir/7deer_skills/itchio-new-game-hunt
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 kennyzir/7deer_skills --skill itchio-new-game-hunt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kennyzir/7deer_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,179 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.05179
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.02072
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00518

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b45aa63c051a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

itchio-new-game-hunt 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 1mo 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.

itchio-new-game-hunt/SKILL.md · 423 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

itch.io New Game Hunt → SEO Arbitrage Discovery

核心理念

itch.io 新游套利的黄金窗口:游戏刚上线 → Google 索引不完整 → 搜索竞争低 → 第一时间建站截获流量。本 skill 专注发现环节:从 itch.io 新游列表中筛选出「有 SEO 套利价值」的游戏。

筛选漏斗(4 层)

itch.io /newest (36/page)
    ↓ 第 1 层: Play in browser
~20 games
    ↓ 第 2 层: 详情页信号扫描 + 评分
~5-8 games
    ↓ 第 2.5 层: Google Trends 搜索需求验证
~3-5 games(砍掉搜不到的)
    ↓ 第 3 层: 竞品度评估
1-3 高价值候选

Phase 1:列表页批量发现

目标 URL

https://itch.io/games/newest/platform-web/free

注意:itch.io 有 Cloudflare 安全验证。如果被拦截,回退到 /games/newest 然后靠 CSS 选择器过滤 "Play in browser"。

提取方法

在 /games/newest 页面的浏览器 console 执行:

(() => {
  const cells = document.querySelectorAll('.game_cell');
  return [...cells].map(cell => {
    const titleEl = cell.querySelector('.title, .game_title');
    const title = titleEl ? titleEl.textContent.trim() : '';
    const link = cell.querySelector('a[data-action="game_grid"], a.thumb_link');
    const url = link ? link.getAttribute('href') : '';
    const dataText = cell.querySelector('.game_cell_data')?.textContent || '';
    const hasPlayInBrowser = /Play in browser/i.test(dataText);
    const genreEl = cell.querySelector('.game_genre');
    const genre = genreEl ? genreEl.textContent.trim() : '';
    const authorEl = cell.querySelector('.game_author a');
    const author = authorEl ? authorEl.textContent.trim() : '';
    const imgEl = cell.querySelector('img');
    const thumbUrl = imgEl ? (imgEl.src || imgEl.getAttribute('data-lazy_src') || '') : '';
    return { title, url, author, genre, thumbUrl, hasPlayInBrowser };
  }).filter(g => g.hasPlayInBrowser && g.title);
})()

关键过滤:

  • ✅ hasPlayInBrowser === true → 才能建站内嵌
  • ❌ 游戏名为空 → 跳过
  • ❌ 标题含 [WIP]/[Demo]/[Prototype] → 未完成品,跳过
  • ⚠️ 标题是非英语(如纯中文/阿拉伯语)→ 英语搜索流量有限,标注 NON_EN

输出: 第一轮筛选列表(通常 15-22 个/页)


Phase 2:详情页信号扫描(逐个)

对 Phase 1 的每个候选游戏,进入详情页提取信号。

重要:避免每次点击 Embed 按钮

Embed 按钮触发 modal dialog,太低效。改用以下方式:

方法 A:直接拼接 embed URL(推荐)

itch.io game_id 在页面 HTML 中有多处出现:

// 在详情页 console 提取 game_id
const embedLink = document.querySelector('a[href*="/embed/"]');
const dataGameId = document.body.getAttribute('data-game_id');
const pageScripts = [...document.querySelectorAll('script')]
  .find(s => s.textContent.includes('"id":'))?.textContent;
const idMatch = pageScripts?.match(/"id":(\d+)/);
const gameId = dataGameId || (embedLink?.href?.match(/\/embed\/(\d+)/)?.[1]) || (idMatch?.[1]);
// embed URL = `https://itch.io/embed/${gameId}`

Read the full file on GitHub · 423 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. 1mo ago Changed · -5 lines b45aa63c051a
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 428 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 2de5491cdc4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

itchio-new-game-hunt is a skill published in the GitHub repository kennyzir/7deer_skills (336 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 5,179 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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