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name: bird-cli description: Use the bird CLI to access X/Twitter accounts, including reading timelines/mentions and listing unanswered mentions by date. Trigger when asked to use bird for whoami, home/mentions, or to detect replies.

Bird CLI

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:

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

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

Output format:

Copy<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:

Copypython scripts/daily_brief.py

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

Optional flags:

Copypython 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.