Show HN: An AI skill for filtering and reading Hacker Newsletter and others
The skill contains a local read-only Gmail daemon as an implementation detail; users normally invoke the skill with a specific date or date range rather than interacting with the daemon directly. The skill starts the daemon, requests all messages from the configured sender for the requested period, passes all decoded text/plain and text/html MIME parts to the model, and uses .agents/skills/email-reader/LINK_FILTERING_INSTRUCTIONS.md for report selection, formatting, and feedback collection. Use with Codex Invoke the skill with a date or date range: $email-reader 2026-06-27 $email-reader 2026-06-01 2026-06-27 The skill runs .agents/skills/email-reader/scripts/fetch_messages.py, which returns message metadata and raw decoded text MIME parts.
- ▪The skill contains a local read-only Gmail daemon as an implementation detail; users normally invoke the skill with a specific date or date range rather than interacting with the daemon directly.
- ▪The skill starts the daemon, requests all messages from the configured sender for the requested period, passes all decoded text/plain and text/html MIME parts to the model, and uses .agents/skills/email-reader/LINK_FILTERING_INSTRUCTIONS.md
- ▪Use with Codex Invoke the skill with a date or date range: $email-reader 2026-06-27 $email-reader 2026-06-01 2026-06-27 The skill runs .agents/skills/email-reader/scripts/fetch_messages.py, which returns message metadata and raw decoded tex
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,995 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Promyer/stellar-inbox |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:33:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T03:52:39.745Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T03:52:39.745Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | bo89D7A8vjBB · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Stellar Inbox Codex skill for reading a configured Gmail newsletter and passing its raw decoded text MIME parts to the model. The skill contains a local read-only Gmail daemon as an implementation detail; users normally invoke the skill with a specific date or date range rather than interacting with the daemon directly. The skill starts the daemon, requests all messages from the configured sender for the requested period, passes all decoded text/plain and text/html MIME parts to the model, and uses .agents/skills/email-reader/LINK_FILTERING_INSTRUCTIONS.md for report selection, formatting, and feedback collection.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.