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x — read & post on X (Twitter) via your own cookies

Drives the user's real X account through X's internal web API via twikit, authenticated by the login cookie they captured with the ACE extension. No official API key, no cost.

E2E-verified on 2026-07-06 with a real connected account for: cookie load, whoami, tweet search, user search, home timeline, trends, tweet detail, and post dry-run. Live writes still require explicit confirmation and were not executed in the verification run.

The connector injects the cookie jar as an env var:

• X_COOKIES — a JSON array of cookies (needs at least auth_token + ct0). Secret — full account access. Never echo or print it.

Setup — verify the shipped CLI

twikit is preinstalled in the hosted sandbox image. Do not pip install it at runtime; if import fails, report that the sandbox image is missing the X skill dependency and stop.

python3 -c "import twikit" || { echo "sandbox missing twikit; deploy the sandbox skill dependencies image" >&2; exit 1; }
# $SKILL_DIR can point at another skill loaded this turn — anchor on our own
# script (re-run this setup at the top of every fresh-shell Bash block below).
X="$SKILL_DIR/scripts/x.py"; [ -f "$X" ] || X=$(find /tmp -maxdepth 8 -path '*/skills/*/scripts/x.py' 2>/dev/null | head -1)
[ -f "$X" ] || { echo "x script not found (SKILL_DIR=$SKILL_DIR)" >&2; exit 1; }
python3 "$X" whoami          # confirm the shipped CLI can read the authenticated account

Read commands (run directly)

python3 $X whoami --expect GermeyAce                         # verify this exact account
python3 $X whoami                                            # discover the authenticated account
python3 $X search --query "ai agents" --product Latest --limit 20   # Top | Latest | Media
python3 $X search-users --query "openai" --limit 10
python3 $X timeline --limit 20                               # my home timeline
python3 $X user-tweets --user elonmusk --type Tweets --limit 20     # Tweets|Replies|Media|Likes
python3 $X tweet --id 1234567890123456789                    # single tweet detail
python3 $X trends --category trending --limit 20             # trending|for-you|news|sports|entertainment

--user accepts either an @screen_name (the @ is optional) or a numeric id.

Verify the connection first

python3 $X whoami --expect GermeyAce
# → {"id": "...", "screen_name": "GermeyAce", "identity_verified": true, ...}

whoami reads the authenticated account's screen name from X account settings, then resolves its public profile. --expect compares that server-authenticated screen name with the required account before any write. This avoids X's Cloudflare-blocked UserByRestId endpoint without trusting a local identity cookie. Always use --expect when the user names the required account.

On an actual auth error the cookie is expired — have the user reconnect at https://auth.acedata.cloud/user/connections. A Cloudflare block is different: reconnecting cookies does not fix it. Use --expect for identity checks; other blocked endpoints need X_PROXY or the official X API. Do not loop-retry.

Write commands — GATED (dry-run unless trailing --confirm)

Every state-changing command (post, thread, like, unlike, retweet, unretweet, follow, unfollow, delete) dry-runs without a trailing --confirm. --confirm is honored only as the last argument, so a tweet body that merely contains "--confirm" can never silently post. Always show the dry-run, get an explicit "yes" on the exact text, then re-run with --confirm.

python3 $X post --text "hello world"                          # dry-run
python3 $X post --text "hello world" --confirm                # LIVE tweet
python3 $X post --text "look at this" --media a.jpg,b.png --confirm     # up to 4 images (or 1 video)
python3 $X post --text "great point" --reply-to 123456 --confirm        # reply
python3 $X post --text "worth reading" --quote-url https://x.com/u/status/123 --confirm  # quote
python3 $X thread --text "1/2 first" --text "2/2 second" --confirm       # thread (2+ segments)
python3 $X like --id 123456 --confirm
python3 $X retweet --id 123456 --confirm
python3 $X follow --user elonmusk --confirm
python3 $X delete --id 123456 --confirm                        # delete one of MY tweets

• A confirmed post / thread is immediately PUBLIC on the user's real account — there is no draft step. Always confirm the exact text first.
• --media takes comma-separated file paths. X allows up to 4 images OR 1 video/GIF per tweet; for a thread the media attaches to the first segment only.

Gotchas

• This is the user's real X account. Confirm before any write — posts are immediate and public.
• Live writes are not E2E-verified. Read commands were verified on 2026-07-06; validate the first confirmed write carefully.
• twikit is a scraper of X's non-public API. It can break when X changes its internal endpoints. The bundled script carries an AceDataCloud compatibility patch for the current ondemand.s webpack chunk map used to generate transaction IDs. If Couldn't get KEY_BYTE indices appears again, report it as X/twikit upstream drift — do NOT ask the user to reconnect cookies for that specific error.
• X currently returns a dependency error for its dedicated UserMedia query. The CLI falls back to the normal Tweets timeline and filters media posts locally; the response includes a fallback field when this happens.
• ToS / rate-limit / ban risk. This acts through the web API, not the official API — high-frequency automation can get the account rate-limited or suspended. Keep volume human-like.
• Never print X_COOKIES — it is full account access.
• DMs are intentionally not exposed by this skill.

Record the output

After you successfully publish and obtain the live result URL, call the built-in publish_artifact tool ONCE so the user can track this deliverable in My Outputs:

publish_artifact(kind="message", channel="x", title="<title>", url="<the REAL returned URL>", status="delivered")

Use the real returned URL — never fabricate one. Call it once per published item, only after delivery is confirmed; skip it (or use status="failed") if publishing failed. See _shared/artifacts.md.