Hacker News Agent
Research public Hacker News launches, threads, and sentiment — read-only, inside your assistant.
The Hacker News Agent turns HN's public feeds into developer-audience research: front-page, new, Show HN, and Ask HN stories, plus the comment trees that carry candid technical sentiment. It owns the Hacker News Data Skill — the deterministic read path — and composes the Role-Agent Skills behind launch-reception and social-listening work for dev, infra, and startup categories — and never posts.
Hacker News Agent composes the Role-Agent Skills that read Hacker News and exposes its public-data API. Same capabilities, sliced by source — read-only.
An HN brief: did it land, who's reacting, and the candid technical sentiment — each cited.
- Front-page, new, Show HN, and Ask HN story signal
- Thread points, comment count, and candid critique
- Launch-reception read for dev/infra/startup categories
- Each figure cited to the public HN item
Who runs this Agent
- Dev-tool and infra teams reading launch reception on HN
- Founders gauging Show HN / Ask HN technical sentiment
- Competitive teams tracking a rival's HN footprint
Paste this into Claude or Codex
The prompt is editable. Replace the brand, market, competitors, or location, then let the assistant call UnifAPI MCP when it needs live public data.
Research how our launch (or category) is landing on Hacker News: scan the front-page, Show HN, and Ask HN feeds, then read the comment tree on any matching thread for points, volume, and candid technical critique. Return a cited brief — read-only, do not post.
From public records to a decision brief
Frame the HN watch
Give the agent the product, company, or category and the feeds to scan (front, new, show, ask).
Scan feeds and threads
UnifAPI returns HN story feeds and item/comment records so the agent can find matching threads and read the comment tree.
Return the reception brief
The agent reports whether it landed, the points/comment volume, and the candid sentiment with cited items, then hands off to the composed Skills.
The concrete tasks Hacker News Agent runs
A Skill is one concrete capability — a run-prompt the Agent executes. Open a Skill for its detailed workflow, expected output, and FAQ.
Hacker News data
EnhancedThe deterministic guide to reading public Hacker News data through UnifAPI — story feeds, items, comment trees, and users.
Launch monitor
EnhancedCollect public launch signals and turn them into a competitive brief.
Social listening
EnhancedTrack public mentions and return a concise brief instead of a dashboard.
Public-data tools this Agent calls
Agents are the workflow layer. The same live APIs are callable directly for product code, debugging, and custom agent flows.
This is a read-only research agent for one platform. It reads public data and returns evidence — it never logs into, posts to, comments on, or messages on the platform, and it never holds your account credentials.
Questions about the Hacker News Agent
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