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OPTIONAL LOCAL TOOL · EARLY PILOT

A small helper.
On your own machine.

Read Hacker News posts for a domain and receive a compact, structured result. Add the helper to a local agent host, or call it from your terminal.

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A DEFINED FIRST JOB

One operation, with clear limits.

API Anything supplies the execution engine. ToolSkipper packages the operation and local-agent interface.

Machine-readable setup
  1. 01

    Call locally

    Choose a public domain and 1–10 posts. The input goes directly to Hacker News.

    No provider account or payment setup
  2. 02

    Use the browser when needed

    The engine can fall back from HTTP to a fresh local Chrome profile.

    Your personal profile is not imported
  3. 03

    Receive structured records

    Get post IDs, titles and links with a receipt describing execution and validation.

    Results stay in your host unless you share them

This helper supports Hacker News only. General web search, account sign-in, article reading, posting and payments are outside this pilot.

REVIEW, CONFIGURE, THEN CONNECT

Set up your local helper.

Unzip the kit into a folder you control. Review its source and instructions before running it. No installation starts from this page.

1. Prepare the engine

Use Node 22.13 or newer. Fetch the pinned upstream revision, install its locked dependencies, and build it. These commands contact GitHub and the package registry.

git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/goodnight000/api-anything.git api-anything
git -C api-anything checkout --detach 4a785e8d9e72a00e2dddc0dc56569a86826df07b
npm --prefix api-anything ci --ignore-scripts --no-audit --no-fund
node api-anything/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc -p api-anything/tsconfig.build.json
Upstream MIT license. Chrome must already be installed. This pilot supports macOS and Linux process cleanup. Chrome on macOS was live-tested; Linux was not. Windows is not supported.

2. Configure and check

Run from the extracted kit folder. Replace both placeholder paths with absolute paths on your computer.

node relay-api-anything.mjs configure --engine "/absolute/path/api-anything" --browser "/absolute/path/to/chrome"
node relay-api-anything.mjs doctor
node relay-api-anything.mjs call --domain meta.ai --limit 5
doctor checks the local installation. Only call performs the public website request. Your host may ask you to approve local execution.

3. Add the generated MCP configuration

Configuration produces a local MCP configuration file with absolute paths. Merge its server entry into a host that supports mcpServers, or translate the entry into your host’s format. Discover the two tools after connecting.

helper_status  → checks the local setup
hn_list_posts  → reads public Hacker News posts

Example task: “Use the ToolSkipper local helper to list five Hacker News posts from meta.ai. Return the titles and source links.” Enable the helper only for tasks it supports.

DATED, SCOPED EVIDENCE

What we have tested.

Internal engine pilot · 2026-10-12 · one website

Read the test evidence
2real browser learning examples
3 / 3new filter calls returned data
15 / 15sample records matched a separate browser

Local MCP integration also passed: a real client retrieved five matching records, received an empty result for a domain with no posts, and passed seven protocol and input-rejection checks. These are internal tests, not external agent adoption.

Plain HTTP returned 419. The engine’s anonymous browser fallback worked. The response fields were configured by a reviewer; this does not demonstrate automatic learning of every website. A successful result is not a guarantee of factual accuracy or future availability.

Keep the useful part local.

Each read uses a temporary browser profile. The helper accepts no provider secrets and does not automatically upload results to ToolSkipper. It includes no paid API calls; your computer, network and agent-model costs may still apply.

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