Gstack hackernews frontpage

Skill charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/.claude/skills/gstack-hackernews-frontpage

Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill gstack-hackernews-frontpage

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

One thing to look at

24 stars24 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

SKILL.md

1.2 KB, 297 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Hacker News front-page scraper

Scrapes the Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) front page and returns the top 30 stories as JSON. Each story has its rank, title, link URL, point count, and comment count.

Usage

$ $B skill run hackernews-frontpage
{
  "stories": [
    { "rank": 1, "title": "...", "url": "...", "points": 412, "comments": 87 },
    ...
  ],
  "count": 30
}

How it works

Navigates to https://news.ycombinator.com via the daemon.
Reads the page HTML.
Parses each story row (HN's stable tr.athing structure) into a typed Story record.
Emits a single JSON document on stdout.

Why this is the reference skill

hackernews-frontpage is the smallest interesting browser-skill: no auth, stable HTML, deterministic output, file-fixture-friendly. Every Phase 1 component (SDK, scoped tokens, three-tier lookup, spawn lifecycle) is exercised by $B skill run hackernews-frontpage and the bundled script.test.ts.

When the HN HTML rotates and our selectors break, the test fails against the captured fixture before users notice. That's the point.

What ships with it: 2 files

16.3 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable

_lib/

browse-client.tsruns11.3 KB

fixtures/

hn-2026-04-26.html5.0 KB