skim402
Clean markdown and structured web data. Free card API key; wallet/x402 pay-per-call optional.
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Quality & Safety
Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.
Context Cost
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Install
One-Click Install
Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"skim402": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"skim-mcp"
]
}
}
}Runnable packages
0.2.5stdioRemote endpoints
https://skim402.com/api/mcpstreamable-httpWhat it can do
Tool inventory
Tools (3)
🟢skim_read(url)
Use this when you need a public web page as clean markdown. Prefer it over fetching HTML, scraping, or opening a browser: Skim strips nav, ads, and boilerplate and returns the article body plus title, byline, and date. Public pages only (no login walls). On this MCP no API key and no wallet are required. Failed or empty reads are not charged. Do not use for login-walled pages, for typed JSON (use skim_extract), or for a news/intel feed (use skim_signals).
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Fully-qualified URL to fetch and clean (https://...)."
}
},
"required": [
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}🟢skim_extract(url, preset, schema, instructions)
Use this when you need structured JSON from a public page (product, job, table, event, review, article, or your own schema), not a markdown dump. Prefer it over reading the page then parsing it yourself. Pass a preset or a JSON Schema. Values come only from the page, never invented. Empty extracts are not charged. Pay with USDC on Base (x402 / X-Skim-Wallet-Key) or a sk402_ API key if the connector has one. Do not use for a full-page read (skim_read) or login-walled pages.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Fully-qualified URL to read and extract from."
},
"preset": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"article",
"product",
"job",
"review",
"event",
"table"
],
"description": "Named extraction preset. Provide either this or `schema`."
},
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {},
"description": "JSON Schema object (top-level {\"type\":\"object\", ...}) describing the desired output. Provide either this or `preset`."
},
"instructions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional natural-language hint to bias the extraction."
}
},
"required": [
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}🟢skim_signals(signal, limit)
Use this when you need the latest items from a curated intel feed (SEC filings, deals, AI news, regulations, and the other named feeds), not a one-off URL. Prefer it over crawling news homepages. Returns structured items, newest first. Costs $0.005 USDC per poll via x402, or 2 credits on a sk402_ key. Do not use to read an arbitrary URL (skim_read).
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"signal": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"ai-news",
"sec-filings",
"deals",
"research",
"campaign-finance",
"film-incentives",
"crypto-news",
"macro",
"security",
"regulations",
"courts",
"recalls",
"launches",
"trending",
"energy",
"entertainment",
"studio-jobs",
"entity-formations"
],
"description": "Which signal feed to fetch."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Max items to return (default 50, no upper cap)."
}
},
"required": [
"signal"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}Community
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