A tool for reading posts, conversation threads, and long-form articles on Twitter/X, including content that normally requires login or JavaScript.

It is for reading shared x.com or twitter.com links, including individual posts, threads, X Articles, and Medium articles.

It gives an agent several ways to retrieve X content when a normal page request is blocked or incomplete.

x-reader — Skill for Claude Code by Yesterday-AI/skills

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yesterday-AI/skills

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install office, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yesterday-ai/skills/x-reader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 627 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00033	$0.00627
Opus 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00251
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00125
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00063

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a07fd9f39bf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-reader 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (read-x.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/office/skills/x-reader/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

X-Reader

Read any Twitter/X content -- tweets, threads, and long-form articles.

Strategy

X/Twitter URL received?
├── Simple tweet or Article → fxtwitter API (fast, free, no login-wall):
│   web_fetch "https://api.fxtwitter.com/<user>/status/<id>"
│   (For Articles: Check tweet.article.content.blocks[] for Draft.js content)
│
├── Medium Article → web_fetch (direct) or Freedium (fallback):
│   web_fetch "https://medium.com/<url>"
│   If teaser only: web_fetch "https://freedium.cfd/medium.com/<url>"
│
├── Thread (Full) → Playwright (via web-scraper):
│   node skills/web-scraper/scripts/scrape.js "<url>" --wait 5000
│
└── All methods fail → Ask user to paste or screenshot

Methods

1. fxtwitter API (Speed & Efficiency)

Best for single tweets and X Articles. No API key needed.

Normal Tweets: Use tweet.text, tweet.author.name, etc.
X Articles: Look into tweet.article.content.blocks[]. Map header-two to ## and unstyled to paragraph.

2. oEmbed API (Legacy fallback)

web_fetch "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=https://x.com/user/status/123"

3. Medium (Client-side Paywall bypass)

Medium paywalls are often client-side JS only. Raw web_fetch often gets the full HTML.

Fallback (Freedium): Rewrite medium.com to freedium.cfd/medium.com.

4. Playwright (Reliability fallback)

For complex threads or when API methods fail.

node skills/web-scraper/scripts/scrape.js "<url>" --wait 5000

URL Detection

Recognize X/Twitter/Medium links:

https://x.com/<user>/status/<id>
https://twitter.com/<user>/status/<id>
https://x.com/i/article/<id>
https://medium.com/<author>/<article-slug>

Depends On

web-scraper -- Playwright rendering engine

Authored by ManniTheRaccoon & Robby. Merged by Yessy 🐾 2026-03-03.

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.

read-x.js 1.8 KB runs code

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.

2mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a07fd9f39bf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

x-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yesterday-AI/skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 627 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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