hacker-news

hacker-news is a skill for Claude Code from unifapi-agent/agents. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,529 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for researching public Hacker News data. Hacker News is a website where people discuss technology, startups, and software, with sections for stories, questions, projects, and jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Hacker News feeds, read discussion threads, inspect story details, check user information, and assess how a launch was received.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to inspect stories, comments, user details, and discussion activity without posting or changing anything.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the unifapi plugin — 47 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review Hacker News feeds, read discussion threads, inspect story…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unifapi-agent/agents/hacker-news
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 unifapi-agent/agents --skill hacker-news
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/unifapi-agent/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install unifapi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 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 hacker-news

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unifapi-agent/agents/hacker-news.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/unifapi-agent/agents/hacker-news)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/unifapi-agent/agents/hacker-news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/unifapi-agent/agents/hacker-news.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,529 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 $0.00116 $0.01529
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00764
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00153

Measured 7d ago against content hash c054dd08dace, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hacker-news 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 7d 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.

skills/hacker-news-agent/hacker-news/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hacker-news

The deterministic read path for public Hacker News data through UnifAPI. This is a Data Skill: it does not run a marketing job on its own — it names the concrete hacker-news/... operations, response shapes, and gotchas so any launch-reception or listening workflow for dev/infra/startup categories reads from one known recipe instead of rediscovering the surface each time.

Read-only — eyes, not hands. It researches public HN data and returns cited records; it never posts stories or comments, and UnifAPI never holds HN credentials.

Use the unifapi skill for live evidence

Connect once through the shared unifapi skill (OAuth MCP), then call the operations below. Story feeds take a {feed} of top, new, best, ask, show, or jobs. Keep any billing metadata so the output can state record cost.

Response contract

Single-entity endpoints return the object in data:

{
  "request_id": "unif_...",
  "data": {},
  "billing": { "records_charged": 1, "balance_remaining": 99 }
}

List endpoints return an array in data plus pagination:

{
  "request_id": "unif_...",
  "data": [],
  "pagination": { "has_more": false, "next_cursor": null },
  "billing": { "records_charged": 1 }
}

When pagination.has_more is true, pass pagination.next_cursor as the next request's cursor (limit sets page size). Always preserve billing.

Core operations

Need Operation
Story feed (hydrated) hacker-news/stories/{feed}/items
Story feed (ids only) hacker-news/stories/{feed}
Item (story / comment) hacker-news/items/{id}
User profile + karma hacker-news/users/{id}
Recently changed hacker-news/updates
Highest item id (scan bound) hacker-news/max-item

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 132 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A c054dd08dace

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hacker-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository unifapi-agent/agents (559 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,529 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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