Http get

Skill MauricioPerera/agent-skills-pack/skills/http-get

A curated pack of 7 practical agent-skills demonstrating real-world patterns: HTTP, GitHub CLI, ripgrep, file ops, JSON processing, encoding. Each SKILL.md validated against the v0.1 spec.

Install

npx -y skills add MauricioPerera/agent-skills-pack --skill http-get

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Performs an HTTP GET request against a URL and returns the response body. Follows redirects by default. Fails on non-2xx status.

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SKILL.md

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HTTP GET request

Performs a simple HTTP GET against a URL.

Behavior

-f (--fail): exits non-zero on HTTP 4xx/5xx without writing the body to stdout.
-s (--silent): suppresses the progress bar.
-S (--show-error): re-enables error messages even with -s.
-L (--location): follows redirects.
--max-time: hard timeout per request.

Output

stdout: the response body verbatim. The agent SHOULD inspect the body's content type via context (a known API endpoint, a Content-Type from a prior HEAD, etc.).
stderr: progress (suppressed) or curl error messages (e.g., curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404).
exit code: 0 on 2xx; non-zero (typically 22) on HTTP errors; 28 on timeout; other curl error codes per man curl.

Caveats

This skill does NOT parse or validate the response body. If the agent needs JSON, it MAY pipe through jq — consider chaining with the json-query skill instead.
--max-time covers TLS handshake + transfer; large downloads need a generous value.
Redirect chains: -L follows up to curl's default of 50 redirects.
The network allowlist on this skill is intentionally permissive (any http:// or https:// URL). Operators in sandbox mode SHOULD restrict via subscription policy or wrap this skill in a more constrained version for their domain.