hackernews-intel
hackernews-intel is an Information, media & social sources skill for AI agents, published by Varnan-Tech in the opendirectory repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates hackernews-intel C (72/100) and the safety scan flagged it for review; the rating is based on static analysis only.
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Monitors Hacker News for user-configured keywords, deduplicates against a local SQLite cache, and sends Slack alerts for new matching posts. Use when asked to monitor Hacker News for mentions, track keywords on HN, get alerts when something is posted about a topic on Hacker News, or set up HN keyword monitoring. Trigger when a user mentions Hacker News alerts, HN monitoring, keyword tracking on HN, or wants to know when a topic appears on Hacker News.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 72 / 100
- Safety
- Needs review
- GitHub stars
- 546
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since, so go by its current files.
Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- Medium-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 2 collections
What the scanner flagged
- suspicious outbound endpoint
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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