CRITICAL FIX: update.md was telling agents to uninstall bird CLI,
which broke users who had working bird installations. Now:
- twitter.py: prefers twitter-cli, falls back to bird/birdx if installed
- update.md: removed "clean up deprecated tools" step entirely
- Added explicit rule: "Never uninstall any existing tools the user already has"
- Tests cover twitter-cli primary + bird fallback + preference order
78 tests passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace xreach CLI with bird (@steipete/bird) as Twitter/X backend
- bird uses AUTH_TOKEN/CT0 env vars (simpler than xreach's session.json)
- Accept both 'bird' and 'birdx' binary names
- Remove version detection logic (bird v0.8.0 is the baseline)
- Write credentials.env to ~/.config/bird/ for easy sourcing
- Keep xfetch session.json sync for backward compatibility
- Update SKILL.md commands: bird search/read/user-tweets/thread
- Update install/uninstall to use npm @steipete/bird
- All 52 tests pass
xreach-cli v0.3.2 added:
- extractTweetText() preferring note_tweet.text for long tweets
- X Article URL support (/article/ path)
Previously, doctor reported 'ok' even when the user had v0.3.0/v0.3.1
installed, silently failing to read longform tweets. Now check() reads
`xreach --version` and returns a warn with upgrade instructions if the
version is below 0.3.2.
Closes#126
Co-authored-by: neo_minion1 <minion@openclaw.ai>
- Replace text=True with encoding='utf-8', errors='replace' in all
subprocess.run calls (channels + cli.py) to fix GBK decode errors
on Chinese Windows systems
- Use shutil.which() resolved paths in channel subprocess calls to
handle Windows .cmd wrappers (npm global installs)
Co-authored-by: Panniantong <panniantong@users.noreply.github.com>
- Twitter _read_jina now detects unusable X.com responses (JS-required pages)
and shows a friendly error instead of garbage HTML
- CLI read command now shows user-friendly messages for invalid URLs
and connection errors instead of raw HTTP exception traces
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