twitter-reader

This skill reads Twitter/X for financial research using opencli, a universal CLI that bridges web services to the terminal by reusing an existing browser login session. It solves the problem of gathering market sentiment and financial discussion from Twitter/X — feeds, searches, bookmarks, profiles, trending topics, and threads — from the terminal without extracting cookies or provisioning API keys. The skill is explicitly and strictly read-only: it does not support posting, liking, retweeting, replying, following, or any write operation.

The workflow first checks that opencli is installed and healthy via opencli doctor, guiding installation through npm and setup of the Chrome Browser Bridge extension (requiring Node.js 21+ and being logged into x.com). It then maps user requests to specific read commands — timeline, search, trending, bookmarks, per-user tweets, threads, articles, profiles, followers, following, and notifications — each with limit and format flags. Output can be rendered as table, JSON, YAML, Markdown, or CSV, with documented column sets per command. Presentation guidance emphasizes summarizing relevant tweets, including attribution and engagement metrics, flagging bullish/bearish sentiment, and treating browser sessions as private and never exposing them.

It targets investors, analysts, and finance-focused agent users doing fintwit research and sentiment tracking. Because it reuses a logged-in Chrome session rather than exfiltrating credentials, and forbids all write actions, it stays within safe read-only bounds.