Show HN: Soothsay - Your AI types curl | sh. soothsay checks the script first
🔮 soothsay Read the omens before you curl | sh. soothsay reads a shell install script and tells you, in plain English, what it's about to do to your machine before you run it. Why this exists In 2026 almost every developer tool installs the same way: curl -fsSL https://<some-ai-cli>.dev/install.sh | bash Coding agents, runtimes, package managers and language toolchains all do it. You're handing a stranger's 2,000-line shell script a root-capable terminal.
- ▪🔮 soothsay Read the omens before you curl | sh. soothsay reads a shell install script and tells you, in plain English, what it's about to do to your machine before you run it.
- ▪Why this exists In 2026 almost every developer tool installs the same way: curl -fsSL https://<some-ai-cli>.dev/install.sh | bash Coding agents, runtimes, package managers and language toolchains all do it.
- ▪You're handing a stranger's 2,000-line shell script a root-capable terminal.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,248 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/rijuld/soothsay |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:04:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T00:22:54.808Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T00:22:54.808Z |
| 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 | q0MU0G629T5r · 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
🔮 soothsay Read the omens before you curl | sh. soothsay reads a shell install script and tells you, in plain English, what it's about to do to your machine before you run it. As a Claude Code hook, it also stops AI coding agents from piping installers into your shell until you've seen what they do. curl -fsSL https://example.com/install.sh | soothsay Guard Claude Code (needs the soothsay binary, see Install): /plugin marketplace add rijuld/soothsay /plugin install soothsay@soothsay Claude's curl … | sh is then blocked, reviewed, pinned to the exact bytes, and put to you for approval. How it works.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.