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hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Prefer `curl`, `jq` and other CLI tools over Python snippets in API-oriented skills

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curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/issues?state=open&per_page=20" \
  | python3 -c "
import sys, json
for i in json.load(sys.stdin):
    if 'pull_request' not in i:
        labels = ', '.join(l['name'] for l in i['labels'])
        print(f\"#{i['number']:5}  {i['state']:6}  {labels:30}  {i['title']}\")"

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curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/issues?state=open&per_page=20" \
  | jq -r '.[] | select(.pull_request | not) | "#\(.number)  \(.state)  \([.labels[].name] | join(","))  \(.title)"'
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Several API-oriented skills include examples that call APIs with curl but then pipe or hand off JSON parsing to Python snippets. It is unnecessarily slow.

I suggest updating relevant bundled skills to prefer curl, jq and other CLI tools over Python.

Candidate skills / areas

  • github-issues
  • linear
  • SaaS/API-oriented skills generally
  • Any examples that use Python only to pretty-print or extract basic JSON fields

Examples

Instead of:

curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/issues?state=open&per_page=20" \
  | python3 -c "
import sys, json
for i in json.load(sys.stdin):
    if 'pull_request' not in i:
        labels = ', '.join(l['name'] for l in i['labels'])
        print(f\"#{i['number']:5}  {i['state']:6}  {labels:30}  {i['title']}\")"

Prefer:

curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/issues?state=open&per_page=20" \
  | jq -r '.[] | select(.pull_request | not) | "#\(.number)  \(.state)  \([.labels[].name] | join(","))  \(.title)"'

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