Nit (Nitter CLI)

What it does

Nit provides a lightweight command-line interface to read Twitter content through privacy-focused Nitter instances. It lets users fetch timelines, view profile details, and search tweets directly in the terminal—useful for quick lookups, scripts, or environments where a browser is unavailable or unwanted.

When to use it

Use Nit when you need to read or search Twitter content from the command line, embed tweet lookups in shell scripts, or avoid browser-based trackers. Typical scenarios: checking a developer's tweets from a CI job, searching for recent mentions of a project from a remote server, or quickly reviewing a timeline without leaving the terminal.

What's included

• Scripts: none bundled in the skill directory (has_scripts=false)
• References: none (has_references=false)
• Instructions: install via Homebrew and use subcommands: timeline, profile, search. Options include --count for result limits, --json for machine-readable output, and --instance to point at a custom Nitter instance.

Compatible agents

CLI-focused automation agents and developer assistants that can run shell commands and present terminal output (Copilot/Codex-style or any agent with shell execution) will find this skill most useful.