Agent skill · writing content · himself65
opencli-reader
Generic read-only fallback for sources opencli supports but no dedicated skill covers: finance sites (Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barchart, Eastmoney, Xueqiu, Sinafinance), communities (Reddit, HackerNews, Weibo, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili), newsletters and blogs (Substack, Medium), research (arXiv, Google Scholar), podcasts and video (Apple Podcasts, Xiaoyuzhou, Spotify, YouTube), Weixin, Amazon, and more. Use it when the user asks to read or fetch from such a site — for example r/wallstreetbets, the HackerNews front page, Eastmoney hot stocks, the Xueqiu feed, Bloomberg markets headlines, or an arXiv search — or says "use opencli to read". Prefer twitter-reader, linkedin-reader, discord-reader, telegram-reader, or yc-reader when the source matches. Read-only: never runs write commands.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific commands and patterns for reading data from over 90 finance and research sources that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires npm installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 3,127 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
opencli Reader (Generic Fallback, Read-Only) If your host has not already executed the shell probes below (for example, in Codex), run the commands inside the ! wrappers with its shell tool before choosing a setup path. Use the actual output; if shell access is unavailable, report that limitation. Generic fallback for any source opencli supports via its adapter registry (100+ sites, growing). Use this skill only when no dedicated finance-skill covers the source — the specialized skills (twitter-reader, linkedin-reader, discord-reader, telegram-reader, yc-reader) are always preferred when the request matches one of them. This skill is read-only. Write commands that opencli exposes (post, like, comment, send, save, upvote, subscribe, follow, delete, reply-dm, etc.) must not be invoked. --- Step 1: Decide Whether to Use This Skill Only use this skill if the request cannot be handled by a more specific skill. If the user asks about… Use this skill instead --- --- Twitter/X twitter-reader LinkedIn linkedin-reader Discord discord-reader Telegram telegram-reader Y Combinator yc-reader Anything else opencli supports (Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Reddit, HackerNews, Eastmoney, Xueqiu, Substack, arXiv, etc.) this skill If the source is not in opencli's registry either, stop and tell the user the request isn't covered — don't fall back to ad-hoc scraping. --- Step 2: Ensure opencli Is Ready Current environment status: If NOTINSTALLED: If SETUPNEEDED, guide the user through Browser Bridge setup (only required for adapters whose strategy is COOKIE, HEADER, INTERCEPT, or UI — PUBLIC and LOCAL adapters work without a browser): 1. Download the latest opencli-extension-v{version}.zip from the GitHub Releases page 2. Unzip it, open chrome://extensions in Chrome, enable Developer mode 3. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder 4. Make sure Chrome is logged into the target site, then re-run opencli doctor Requires Node.js >= 20 (or Bun >= 1.0). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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