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hackernews-intel

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a marketing skill usually talks to online services.

By Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (GitHub) · marketing · 705 stars · scanned at commit caac7cd

Monitors Hacker News for user-configured keywords, deduplicates against a local SQLite cache, and sends Slack alerts for new matching posts. Use when asked to monitor Hacker News for mentions, track keywords on HN, get alerts when something is posted about a topic on Hacker News, or set up HN keyword monitoring. Trigger when a user mentions Hacker News alerts, HN monitoring, keyword tracking on HN, or wants to know when a topic appears on Hacker News.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'hackernews-intel' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'hackernews-intel' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named hackernews-intel already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'caac7cda5621e289591e4e74b400e66ac72ad25b' -- 'skills/hackernews-intel' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/hackernews-intel' ~/.agents/skills/'hackernews-intel' && 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/'hackernews-intel' ~/.claude/skills/'hackernews-intel' (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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