Bird CLI

Safety Policy (Hard Rules)

This skill is read-only with respect to X/Twitter account state.

• Never use commands that publish or mutate account state.
• If a request asks for posting or account mutations, refuse that part and offer a read-only alternative.

CRITICAL: bird's default subcommand is tweet (PUBLISH)

• Running bird <any-text> without a subcommand will PUBLISH that text as a tweet
• To READ a tweet, ALWAYS use bird read <id-or-url> — never just bird <id>
• This is the #1 source of accidental tweets. Triple-check every bird command.

Forbidden Commands (never run)

• bird tweet
• bird reply
• bird follow
• bird unfollow
• bird unbookmark

Allowed Commands (query/inspection only)

• bird whoami
• bird check
• bird read
• bird replies
• bird thread
• bird search
• bird mentions
• bird bookmarks
• bird likes
• bird home
• bird following
• bird followers
• bird lists
• bird list-timeline
• bird about
• bird user-tweets
• bird news / bird trending
• bird query-ids (including --fresh)
• NEVER run bird <id-or-url> without a subcommand — bird's default subcommand is tweet (publish), NOT read. Always use bird read <id-or-url> explicitly.

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:

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

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

Output format:

<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:

python scripts/daily_brief.py

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

Optional flags:

python 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.