Agent skill · data analytics · himself65
twitter-reader
Read Twitter/X for financial research through opencli: the user's home timeline, tweet search, trending topics, bookmarks, a user's recent tweets, threads, articles, profiles, followers and following, and notifications. Use this skill whenever the user wants to know what people are saying on Twitter/X or fintwit about a stock, topic, or market event, check their feed or bookmarks, see what's trending, or look up an @account and its posts. Read-only: it cannot post, like, retweet, reply, or follow.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific commands and flags for reading financial data from Twitter/X that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires opencli installed locally. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 3,127 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Twitter Skill (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. Reads Twitter/X for financial research using opencli, a universal CLI tool that bridges web services to the terminal via browser session reuse. This skill is read-only. It is designed for financial research: searching market discussions, reading analyst tweets, tracking sentiment, and monitoring financial news on Twitter/X. It does NOT support posting, liking, retweeting, replying, or any write operations. Important: opencli reuses your existing Chrome login session — no API keys or cookie extraction needed. Just be logged into x.com in Chrome and have the Browser Bridge extension installed. --- Step 1: Ensure opencli Is Installed and Ready Current environment status: If the status above shows READY, skip to Step 2. If NOTINSTALLED, install first: If SETUPNEEDED, guide the user through setup: Setup opencli requires Node.js >= 20 and a Chrome browser with the Browser Bridge extension: 1. Install the Browser Bridge extension: Download the latest opencli-extension-v{version}.zip from the GitHub Releases page Unzip it, open chrome://extensions in Chrome, and enable Developer mode Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder 2. Login to x.com in Chrome — opencli reuses your existing browser session 3. Verify connectivity: This auto-starts the daemon, verifies the extension is connected, and checks session health. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills himself65/twitter-reader