defuddle

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (GitHub) · coding · 6,038 stars · scanned at commit d394fb5

Extract clean Markdown from web pages. In the KB workflow, use it as a utility under obsidian-source-ingestion.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 18 places.

skills/defuddle/SKILL.md, line 16defuddle parse <url> --md
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 11const { execSync, spawnSync } = require('child_process');
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 52const result = spawnSync('where', [cmd], { stdio: 'pipe' });

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scripts/lib/utils.js, line 56const result = spawnSync('which', [cmd], { stdio: 'pipe' });
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 72const result = execSync(cmd, {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 10const { execSync } = require('child_process');
hooks/hook-common.js, line 20execSync('git rev-parse --git-dir', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 28branch = execSync('git branch --show-current', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 40changes = execSync('git status --porcelain', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 128return execSync('git rev-parse --show-toplevel', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 290const unstaged = execSync('git diff --name-status', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 298const staged = execSync('git diff --cached --name-status', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 306const untracked = execSync('git status --porcelain', {
hooks/hooks.json, line 10"command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/security-guard.js\"",
hooks/hooks.json, line 22"command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/session-summary.js\"",
hooks/hooks.json, line 34"command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/session-start.js\"",
hooks/hooks.json, line 46"command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/stop-summary.js\"",
hooks/hooks.json, line 58"command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/skill-forced-eval.js\"",

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

scripts/lib/package-manager.js, line 27execCmd: 'pnpm dlx',

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'defuddle' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'defuddle' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named defuddle already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd394fb599ed9e6ea2212a9e6daa864345fe97a26' -- 'skills/defuddle' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/defuddle' ~/.agents/skills/'defuddle' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'defuddle' ~/.claude/skills/'defuddle' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-12	`d394fb5`	80