Browsing Hackernews
Use when the user wants to interact with Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) — read top stories from the frontpage, extract a post's data and comments, or search stories via the Algolia HN search API. No authentication required. HN uses server-rendered HTML, so extraction works reliably without a browser (though a browser still works fine).
Install
$ agentstack add skill-browsing-skills-browsing-skills-news-ycombinator-com ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
Hacker News — Browsing Skill
Use this index to choose the HN action that matches the user request, then open the linked reference file for the complete navigation, requirements, code, and return shape.
Action Index
- frontpage — Extract top stories from the HN frontpage (rank, title, URL, score, author, comment count). Supports pagination. Full spec: [references/frontpage.md](references/frontpage.md).
- post-data — Extract a specific post's details (title, URL, score, author, age) and its top-level comments. Full spec: [references/post-data.md](references/post-data.md).
- search — Search Hacker News stories via the Algolia HN API. No browser navigation required — calls the API via fetch. Full spec: [references/search.md](references/search.md).
Benchmarks
Benchmarks compare the maintained skill action against a no-skill browser agent that inspects the live page DOM and derives selectors at runtime. Full notes live in [BENCHMARKS.md](../../BENCHMARKS.md).
| Action | With Skill | Without Skill | Notes | |---|---:|---:|---| | frontpage | TBD | TBD | TBD | | post-data | TBD | TBD | TBD | | search | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: browsing-skills
- Source: browsing-skills/browsing-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.