readable-stackoverflow

A guide for retrieving Stack Overflow questions and answers through the Stack Exchange API. Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer site where developers discuss programming problems and solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a user provides a Stack Overflow question link and you need to read its question, answers, or voting order.
Why use it?
It provides the question body and answers in a consistent form while accounting for API limits and required source attribution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow
Any agent
npx skills add yamadashy/agent-readable --skill readable-stackoverflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yamadashy/agent-readable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 377 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00085 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 29e9de8d4f46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readable-stackoverflow 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 yesterday.

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.

curl -s --compressed \
skills/readable-stackoverflow/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Stack Overflow Question Reader

Uses the public Stack Exchange API. Anonymous usage is rate-limited to ~300 requests per IP per day.

Steps

1. Extract the question ID

From a URL like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345678/some-slug, the ID is 12345678.

2. Fetch the question body

curl -s --compressed \
  "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/{id}?site=stackoverflow&filter=withbody"

3. Fetch the answers

curl -s --compressed \
  "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/{id}/answers?site=stackoverflow&filter=withbody&sort=votes&order=desc"

The response uses gzip; the --compressed flag is required by the API.

4. Honor backoff

If a response includes a backoff field, do not call the API again for that many seconds.

Attribution

Stack Exchange content is licensed under CC BY-SA. When surfacing answers, include the question URL and note the source as Stack Overflow.

Reference

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. yesterday First seen · 45 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 29e9de8d4f46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readable-stackoverflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository yamadashy/agent-readable (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 377 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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