Bird CLI

Overview

Use this skill to operate Twitter/X through the local bird CLI (bird 0.8.0). Prefer JSON output (--json) for machine-readable processing, then summarize for the user.

Capability Map (from bird --help)

• Identity/auth checks: check, whoami, query-ids
• Read single tweet: read, shorthand bird <tweet-id-or-url> [--json]
• Read conversations: replies, thread
• Discovery: search, mentions, news/trending, home, user-tweets
• Library/account views: bookmarks, likes, lists, list-timeline, following, followers, about
• Write actions: tweet, reply, unbookmark, follow, unfollow

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