bird-cli

name	bird-cli
description	Read-only usage of the bird CLI for X/Twitter accounts (timelines, mentions, and analysis). Trigger when asked to inspect whoami, timelines, mentions, replies, search, or reporting tasks without account mutations.

Bird CLI

Safety Policy (Hard Rules)

This skill is read-only with respect to X/Twitter account state.

• Never use commands that publish or mutate account state.
• If a request asks for posting or account mutations, refuse that part and offer a read-only alternative.

CRITICAL: bird's default subcommand is tweet (PUBLISH)

• Running bird <any-text> without a subcommand will PUBLISH that text as a tweet
• To READ a tweet, ALWAYS use bird read <id-or-url> — never just bird <id>
• This is the #1 source of accidental tweets. Triple-check every bird command.

Forbidden Commands (never run)

• bird tweet
• bird reply
• bird follow
• bird unfollow
• bird unbookmark

Allowed Commands (query/inspection only)

• bird whoami
• bird check
• bird read
• bird replies
• bird thread
• bird search
• bird mentions
• bird bookmarks
• bird likes
• bird home
• bird following
• bird followers
• bird lists
• bird list-timeline
• bird about
• bird user-tweets
• bird news / bird trending
• bird query-ids (including --fresh)
• NEVER run bird <id-or-url> without a subcommand — bird's default subcommand is tweet (publish), NOT read. Always use bird read <id-or-url> explicitly.

Quick Start

• Prefer explicit cookie source and browser profile to avoid Safari auto-detection.
• If multiple accounts exist, pass --chrome-profile and --username explicitly.
• Defaults can be set in ~/.config/skills/config.json under bird (chrome_profile, username).

Task: List unanswered mentions (most recent first)

• Run scripts/unanswered_mentions.py with the target profile.
• If auto-detection fails, pass --username.
• The script checks bird replies <tweet> for a reply authored by the target username (heuristic).

Examples:

python scripts/unanswered_mentions.py --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile "<Profile>" --json-out /tmp/bird-unanswered.json --numbered

python scripts/unanswered_mentions.py --cookie-source chrome --chrome-profile "<Profile>" --show-text --limit 10

Output format:

<createdAt> | @author | https://x.com/<author>/status/<id>

Resources

• scripts/unanswered_mentions.py: lists unanswered mentions in descending date order.
• scripts/daily_brief.py: daily brief of AI/dev news + home candidates.

Task: Daily brief (AI + dev)

Run:

python scripts/daily_brief.py

Defaults: AI news + Home following, prints 5 news items and 10 home candidates.

Optional flags:

python scripts/daily_brief.py --news-count 5 --home-results 10
python scripts/daily_brief.py --allow-for-you   # use For You instead of Following
python scripts/daily_brief.py --json-out /tmp/bird-daily.json

• scripts/ignore_mentions.py: mark mention IDs as ignored so they stop appearing.