read

94 / 100 · Low risk

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

By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Read an X (formerly Twitter) post, note tweet, or X Article as Markdown without an X API key, by routing the URL through third-party converters: xtomd.com for a single post or article, Thread Reader App for an unrolled reply chain. Use when: an x.com or twitter.com status or article URL needs its text read, whether the user pasted it or research turned it up, 'read this X link', 'unroll this thread', 'convert this X article to markdown', 'show the replies', or 'WebFetch returned a login wall on…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: example.invalid

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 12 places.

plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 18`/api/markdown` returns a stub reading `"method":"POST"`), so `WebFetch` cannot reach it.
plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 154curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 5000000 \
plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 187- **Shell commands**: the `curl -o` target and the delete. Single-quote the substituted path. Inside

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plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 252Fetch `https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/<id>.html` with `WebFetch`. No key, no login, no paywall.
plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 285Return a step-1 result as the converter's Markdown. Present a step-2 result as `WebFetch`'s
plugins/x/skills/read/context/failure-modes.md, line 136$ curl -q -sS --max-filesize 5000 -o spool.md -w '%{http_code}' https://example.invalid/big
plugins/x/skills/read/context/failure-modes.md, line 216- A step-2 result is `WebFetch`'s rendering of the Thread Reader App page, not the posts' exact
plugins/x/skills/read/context/sources.md, line 25path. Use `WebFetch` only for a summary, never for the post's exact text (why: fetch
plugins/x/skills/read/context/sources.md, line 61curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 5000000 \
plugins/x/skills/read/context/sources.md, line 66curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 5000000 \
plugins/x/skills/read/context/sources.md, line 71curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 20000000 \
plugins/x/skills/read/context/sources.md, line 75curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 5000000 \

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 1 place.

plugins/x/skills/read/SKILL.md, line 154curl -q -sS --proto '=https' --max-time 30 --max-filesize 5000000 \

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'read' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'read' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named read already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/x/skills/read' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/x/skills/read' ~/.agents/skills/'read' && 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/'read' ~/.claude/skills/'read' (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
2026-11-09	`677e798`	94
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	100