Article Sweeper — Development skill for Claude Code

article-sweeper

**The zero-config tab sweeper for article hoarders.** Summarizes open article tabs across Thorium, Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, and Firefox, files them to a dated desktop note, and closes only the summarized tabs.

Highlights

• Cross-browser: Chromium family via CDP ground truth, Firefox via sessionstore.jsonlz4 decode.
• Article-only: mail, chats, repos, dashboards, trackers, and adult pages stay open, never summarized.
• Append-only notes: entries go to ~/Desktop/summary article YYYY-MM-DD.txt. Creates when missing, never overwrites.
• Safe close: closes only summarized tab ids, verifies the rest stayed open. Firefox tabs close by hand from a printed list.
• Dev-mode restart: backup first, session-restore check, no pkill -9, no session-file deletes.

Install

npx skills add sebin-gg/article-sweeper@article-sweeper

Restart your agent session after install so the skill loads.

Use

Example prompts:

• "Summarize my open articles"
• "Sweep my article tabs"
• "Summarize browser tabs and close the ones you summarized"
• "Sweep only Chrome and Firefox"
• "Summarize Thorium tabs, leave everything else open"

Name browsers to scope the sweep. Unnamed browsers stay open and get no summary. No names = all detected browsers swept.

What it does

1. It lists live tabs in Thorium, Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, and Firefox. For Chromium-family browsers it reads the tabs through the debugging port. For Firef