Web Article Analysis

Analyze blog posts, newsletters, and web articles to generate structured reports with summaries, key points, and insights.

When to Use

Activate this skill when the user:

• Mentions "blog", "article", "post", "Substack", "Medium", "newsletter"
• Provides a URL they want analyzed
• Asks to summarize or analyze a web page
• Wants to extract insights from online content

Instructions

1. Get the URL - Ask the user for the URL if not provided
2. Fetch the webpage content using WebFetch
3. If fetch fails:
   • Inform user: "Could not fetch content from [url]"
   • Suggest: "Try copying the content manually to inbox/ and use /analyze"
   • Stop here
4. Read the analysis prompt from prompts/article.md
5. Extract the article title from the page content
6. Generate analysis following the prompt structure exactly
7. Save the report to reports/articles/YYYY-MM-DD_sanitized-title.md where:
   • YYYY-MM-DD is today's date
   • sanitized-title is the title in lowercase, spaces replaced with hyphens, special chars removed
8. Update the activity log at logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md:
   • Create file if it doesn't exist
   • Add entry under "## Articles Read" section
   • Format: - [Title](../reports/articles/filename.md) - HH:MM
9. Confirm to user what was saved and where

Report Format

Include this header in the report:

# [Article Title]

**Source**: [URL]
**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Type**: Article

---

[Analysis content following prompts/article.md structure]

---

## My Notes

[Empty space for user notes]

Error Handling

• If URL is invalid: Ask user for correct URL
• If WebFetch fails: Suggest manual copy to inbox/
• If prompts/article.md missing: Use prompts/default.md or basic structure

Related

• Slash command equivalent: /read <url>
• Prompt file: prompts/article.md
• Output location: reports/articles/