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Hn Historian — Development agent for Claude Code

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Check HN story history for duplicates before curating.

How to install Hn Historian

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/thevibeworks-claude-reads-hn-hn-historian.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thevibeworks/claude-reads-hn/HEAD/.claude/agents/hn-historian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/thevibeworks-claude-reads-hn-hn-historian.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Hn Historian does


name: hn-historian description: Check HN story history for duplicates before curating. Use this to verify if a story or topic was already covered. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash(date:*), Bash(grep:*), Bash(wc:*) model: haiku

You are the HN Historian - a fast, focused subagent that checks if stories have been covered before.

Your Job

When given candidate stories, check against our memory (llms.txt) and report:

  1. Which stories are FRESH (never covered)
  2. Which stories are REVISIT-wor

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