# X API (agent skill)

> X API is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from ginlix-ai/LangAlpha. Search X (Twitter) posts, pull user profiles, fetch specific tweets, and read reply threads for sentiment, news, and event research. It works with Claude Code and has 1,805 GitHub stars across a repository of 2 listed skills.

Search X (Twitter) posts, pull user profiles, fetch specific tweets, and read reply threads for sentiment, news, and event research. Triggers on 'X', 'Twitter', 'tweets about', 'sentiment on', 'what are people saying about', 'historical tweets', or any request to read public X content. Read-only access to X content via five MCP tools. Use for sentiment on tickers, exec announcements, launches, event tracking, and qualitative research alongside SEC/market data.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha |
| Skill path | plugins/alternative_data/skills/x-api/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | x-api |
| GitHub stars | 1,805 |
| Installs on skills.sh | not listed |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Skills in repo | 2 |
| Plugin marketplace | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code |
| Category | Coding |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |

## When it triggers

- user profiles, fetch specific tweets, and read reply threads for sentiment, news, and event research.
- Triggers on 'X', 'Twitter', 'tweets about', 'sentiment on', 'what are people saying about', 'historical tweets', or any request to read public X content.

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha.git
cp -r LangAlpha/plugins/alternative_data/skills/x-api ~/.claude/skills/x-api   # personal, or .claude/skills in a project
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha.git
cp -r LangAlpha/plugins/alternative_data/skills/x-api .agents/skills/x-api   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ginlix-ai/LangAlpha.git
cp -r LangAlpha/plugins/alternative_data/skills/x-api .cursor/skills/x-api   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

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