Agent skill · writing content · mvanhorn
pp-medium-reader
Read any Medium author, publication, or tag as a local, full-text-searchable corpus — no API key, no account. Trigger phrases: `archive this Medium author`, `get the full text of this Medium article`, `read the UX tag feed on Medium`, `search Medium for <topic>`, `search my Medium corpus`, `use medium-reader-pp-cli`, `run medium-reader`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a command-line interface for archiving and searching Medium content, which is not commonly available in public documentation.
What it needs
Requires medium-reader-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Medium Reader — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the medium-reader-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: medium-reader-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Medium Reader reads Medium's own public surfaces (RSS, the article page, and the internal GraphQL endpoint) directly — no API key, no proxy. It mirrors authors, publications, and tags into a local SQLite store, so you can archive a writer's entire body of work, search across everything you have synced, and see what is new in a topic — offline, in one command, agent-native. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent needs to read, archive, search, or analyze Medium content — a specific author's catalog, a publication's articles, a tag's RSS feed, or the full text of an article. It is the right tool when the task is research, monitoring, or building a local corpus of Medium writing. It works with zero credentials. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use to publish, update, clap, comment on, or follow on Medium; this is a read-only reader (Medium's official write API was closed to new integrations in 2025). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/medium-reader