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hacker-news-scraper

Search Hacker News stories and comments using the free Algolia API. No Apify token needed. Use when you need to find HN discussions, track mentions, discover Show HN launches, or monitor tech community sentiment.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is lean, highly actionable, and well-structured, keeping implementation detail in the referenced bundle script while providing copy-paste-ready commands and a complete flag reference. The only gap is the absence of explicit verification/error-recovery guidance for batch result fetching.

Suggestions

Add a short 'Verification / troubleshooting' note: if results are empty, increase --days, drop --keywords, or widen --query; if the API errors, retry with smaller --max-results.

Show how to interpret the stderr progress line ('Found N results') as a quick sanity check before consuming the JSON output.

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Conciseness

Lean and efficient: it assumes Claude's competence, explains no basic concepts, and every section (Quick Start, How it Works, CLI table, Output Format, Cost) earns its place with no padding.

5 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands cover the common cases (story search, Show HN summary, comment search), reinforced by a complete CLI reference table and a concrete output schema matching the bundle script.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The single action (run search_hn.py with flags) is unambiguous and the 6-step internal pipeline is laid out, but there is no explicit verification guidance (e.g. empty-result handling, broadening --days/--query) for this batch-fetch operation.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized sections with the script logic correctly split into the one-level-deep bundle file scripts/search_hn.py, which is referenced by real path in the Quick Start commands; navigation is easy.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that clearly states what the skill does and when to use it with concrete, natural trigger terms and a distinct HN-specific niche. The only weakness is mild second-person voice in the trigger clause, which slightly lowers the specificity score.

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Specificity

Names the domain and several concrete use cases ('find HN discussions, track mentions, discover Show HN launches, or monitor tech community sentiment') alongside the core search action, but the second-person 'Use when you need to find' phrasing pulls it below the comprehensive 5-anchor per the voice guideline.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Search Hacker News stories and comments using the free Algolia API') and when ('Use when you need to find HN discussions, track mentions, discover Show HN launches, or monitor tech community sentiment') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage including the synonym pair 'Hacker News'/'HN', plus 'Show HN' and 'tech community sentiment'; a few natural variations users might say (e.g. 'HN comments', 'Y Combinator') are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche (Hacker News via Algolia, explicitly 'No Apify token needed') with distinct triggers that make overlap with unrelated skills unlikely.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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