agent-fetch Skill

A better web fetch for text content. Your built-in web fetch summarizes or truncates pages. agent-fetch extracts the complete article — every paragraph, heading, and link — using 7 extraction strategies and browser impersonation. No server required, runs as a local CLI tool.

When to Use This Skill

Use agent-fetch whenever you need to read a URL. It returns full article text with structure preserved — better than your built-in web fetch for any task involving page content.

• User asks to read, fetch, or analyze a URL
• User types /agent-fetch <url>
• You need the full text, not a summary or truncation
• Your built-in web fetch returned incomplete or garbled content

Prerequisites

agent-fetch runs via npx (no install needed):

npx agent-fetch --help

Commands

/agent-fetch <url> – Fetch and Extract Article

Default usage. Fetches URL with browser impersonation and extracts complete article content as markdown.

npx agent-fetch "<url>" --json

Parse the JSON output and present to the user:

---
title: {title}
author: {byline || "Unknown"}
source: {siteName}
url: {url}
date: {publishedTime || "Unknown"}
fetched_in: {latencyMs}ms
---

## {markdown || textContent}

{markdown || textContent}

If fetch fails, check suggestedAction in the JSON:

/agent-fetch raw <url> – Raw HTML

Fetch raw HTML without extraction.

npx agent-fetch "<url>" --raw

/agent-fetch quiet <url> – Markdown Only

Just the article markdown, no metadata.

npx agent-fetch "<url>" -q

/agent-fetch text <url> – Plain Text Only

Plain text content without formatting or metadata.

npx agent-fetch "<url>" --text

Why agent-fetch Extracts More

agent-fetch runs 7 extraction strategies in parallel and picks the most complete result:

The longest valid result wins. Metadata (author, date, site name) is composed from the best source across all strategies.

agent-fetch vs Built-in Web Fetch