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Actions
Everything Sokko can do in Hacker News
Every Hacker News action Sokko can run. Ask for one in a sentence and it's done.
Get Ask HN Story IDs
Get up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for Ask HN posts in ranked order.
Get Best HackerNews Stories
Get up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score. Returns story IDs only. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
Get Hacker News Item
Tool to get a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API. Use when you need to retrieve details about a specific story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.
Get Job Story IDs
Get up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for job postings that can be used to fetch full job details.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.
Get Max Item ID
Tool to get the current largest item ID from Hacker News. Use when you need to discover the most recent items or iterate through all items in the system by walking backward from this ID.
Get New Hacker News Stories
Get up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs sorted by recency (most recent first). Use these IDs with the Get Item action to retrieve full story details.
Get Show HN Stories
Tool to retrieve up to 200 latest Show HN story IDs from Hacker News. Use when you need to find recent Show HN posts where people share their projects, products, or creations.
Get Top HackerNews Stories
Get up to 500 top story IDs from HackerNews including jobs. Returns story IDs sorted by front page position. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
Get Hacker News Updates
Get recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News. Use this to monitor recent activity or updates on the platform.
Get Hacker News User
Retrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username. Returns the user's username, karma score, and optional bio/about text. Use this to look up information about HN community members.
Get HackerNews User by Username
Tool to get a user profile by their case-sensitive username from the HackerNews Firebase API. Use when you need detailed user information including creation date, karma, bio, and submission history. Only users with public activity are available.
Search Hackernews Posts
Search Hacker News posts using full-text search powered by Algolia. Use this action to find stories, comments, and discussions on Hacker News matching specific keywords. Supports filtering by post type (story, comment, show_hn, ask_hn) and by author.
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Sokko is an AI assistant that lives in your Slack. Connect your apps, ask for what you need in plain language, and Sokko takes the work off your plate.
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No. There's nothing to build or configure. You ask Sokko in Slack the same way you'd ask a colleague, and Sokko handles the rest.
Yes. Ask once and tell Sokko when to repeat it, like every Monday at 9am, and it becomes a routine that runs without you.
Read and act on data in Hacker News, and trigger workflows when something changes there. Tell Sokko the outcome you want and it handles the rest.
Yes. Sokko connects to 1,000+ apps and any MCP server, so you can ask for tasks that span Hacker News and the rest of your stack in a single request.