read

name	read
description	Invoke whenever the user's message contains any http(s) URL, web page link, or PDF path, even if the user only says "analyze", "summarize", "look at", or "what does X say". Always prefer this skill over WebFetch for any URL. WebFetch is not a substitute and fails on X/Twitter, paywalls, and auth-gated pages. Not for local text files or source code already in the repo.
metadata	{"version":"3.11.0"}

Read: Fetch Any URL or PDF as Markdown

Prefix your first line with 🥷 inline, not as its own paragraph.

Convert any URL or local PDF to clean Markdown and save it. No analysis, no summary, no discussion of the content unless explicitly asked.

Routing

Input	Method
feishu.cn, larksuite.com	Feishu API script
mp.weixin.qq.com	Proxy cascade first, built-in WeChat article script only if the proxies fail
.pdf URL or local PDF path	PDF extraction
GitHub URLs (github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com)	Prefer raw content or gh first. Use the proxy cascade only as fallback.
x.com, twitter.com	Proxy cascade (r.jina.ai keeps image URLs). Do not try WebFetch; it 402s.
Everything else	Proxy cascade

After routing, load references/read-methods.md and run the commands for the chosen method.

Output Format

Title:  {title}
Author: {author} (if available)
Source: {platform}
URL:    {original url}

Content
{full Markdown, truncated at 200 lines if long}

Saving

Save to ~/Downloads/{title}.md with YAML frontmatter by default. Skip only if user says "just preview" or "don't save". Tell the user the saved path.

If ~/Downloads/{title}.md already exists, append -1, -2, etc., to the filename. Never overwrite an existing file without explicit confirmation.

Images

By default only save Markdown. Download images only when the user explicitly asks: "download images", "save images", "带图", "下载图片", or similar.

When asked, after saving the Markdown:

1. Extract image URLs: grep -oE 'https?://[^ )"]+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp|gif)' {md_path} | sort -u
2. Create ~/Downloads/{title}-images/ and curl each URL in parallel (& + wait). Use the same proxy env vars as the fetch step.
3. Report the count and folder path. If any download fails, list the failed URLs.

Hard Rules

• Do not summarize or analyze the content. Your job is conversion and storage, not interpretation.
• Never overwrite without confirmation. If the target filename already exists, use an auto-incremented suffix.
• Stop after the save report. Do not suggest follow-up actions ("Would you like me to summarize?", "Next, you could...") unless the user asks.

Gotchas

What happened	Rule
Fetched a paywalled article and returned a login page as Markdown	Inspect the first 10 lines for paywall signals ("Subscribe", "Sign in", "Continue reading"). If found, stop and warn the user. Do not save the login page.
r.jina.ai or defuddle.md returned empty for a JS-heavy site	Try the local fallback (agent-fetch or defuddle parse) before giving up.
Network failures	Prepend local proxy env vars if available and retry once.
Long content	`
Local fallback tools returned JSON	Extract the Markdown-bearing field. Raw JSON is not a valid final output for /read.
All methods failed	Stop and tell the user what was tried and what failed. Suggest opening the URL in a browser or providing an alternative. Do not silently return empty or partial results.