| 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.
