flex-hn

name	flex:hn
description	Search public Hacker News stories and comments in the hn cell through the Flex MCP server. Use when the user asks what HN says about a technology, top stories by score or comment volume, thread sentiment, recurring complaints or praise, or semantic search over HN opinion and technical debate.
allowed-tools	["mcp__flex__flex_search"]
user-invocable	true
argument-hint	HN topic/story/author, e.g. 'top stories about sqlite', 'what do comments say about MCP servers', 'drill into thread hn_44497045'

flex:hn

Flex indexes public Hacker News stories and comments (via the Algolia HN Search API) in the hn cell. It is a remote-pull social cell: a self-describing SQLite database where each source is a story thread and the chunks view carries a universal type column (story or comment), embeddings, and graph intelligence. Coverage is bounded by the queries and date range set at init. Use this skill for top stories, comment-thread sentiment, dissent and praise patterns, and thread drilldown.

Use mcp__flex__flex_search with cell="hn". First call query="@orient" unless this cell was already oriented in the current turn, then follow the bundled cell instructions, presets, views, and drillback notes. Every query must be SQL or an @preset; wrap plain text in the cell's documented keyword() or vec_ops() pattern.