readable-stackoverflow

readable-stackoverflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yamadashy/agent-readable. It costs 85 tokens per session (377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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

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

Good fit Use it when a user provides a Stack Overflow question link and you need to read its question, answers, or voting order.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow
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 yamadashy/agent-readable --skill readable-stackoverflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yamadashy/agent-readable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 readable-stackoverflow

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 readable-stackoverflow

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yamadashy/agent-readable/readable-stackoverflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
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. 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 $0.00085 $0.00377
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00151
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 29e9de8d4f46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

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. 1mo ago 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 (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 377 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

claude-md-improver

Audit and improve CLAUDE.md files in repositories. Use when user asks to check, audit, update, improve, or fix CLAUDE.md files. Scans for all CLAUDE.md files, evaluates quality against templates, outputs quality report, then makes targeted updates. Also use when the user mentions "CLAUDE.md maintenance" or "project…

anthropics/claude-plugins-official · 82 tokens

agent-platform-model-registry

Agent Platform Model Registry Management. Use when you need to upload, list, describe, update, or delete machine learning models (and their versions) in the Agent Platform Model Registry. Don't use for model training, model deployment to endpoints, or managing non-Agent Platform models.

google/skills · 60 tokens

gke-workload-security

Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces. Covers running security audits (auditcluster.sh), enforcing Network Policies (default-deny and Dataplane V2 logging), isolating high-risk pods inside GKE Sandbox (gVisor), enforcing Pod…

google/skills · 171 tokens

gke-reliability

Improves GKE workload reliability, using PDBs, health probes, and topology spread constraints. Use when configuring GKE workload reliability, setting up PDBs, or configuring GKE health probes (liveness, readiness, startup). Don't use for generating K8s YAML manifests (use gke-manifest-generation) or disaster recovery…

google/skills · 85 tokens

google-cloud-solution-agentic-analytics-spark-knowledge-catalog

Discovers requirements and designs an end-to-end governed agentic analytics solution using Knowledge Catalog and Managed Service for Apache Spark (Lightning Engine). Use when designing data science and analytics workflows across structured and unstructured distributed data (including in S3, Azure Blob, AlloyDB, and…

google/skills · 132 tokens

glance-canonical-layouts

Use this skill to create home screen widgets using Jetpack Glance Canonical Layouts from the Android Platform Samples project, or when asked to implement standard widget layout patterns (including Check List, Image Grid, Snap Scrolling, and Standard Toolbar).

android/skills · 56 tokens