- live-verified 2026-06: anonymous .json endpoints are 403-blocked (all
variants) and the official API closed self-service registration in
2025-11 — so the channel now says plainly: every Reddit backend needs
a logged-in session, mainland China needs a proxy
- backends = [OpenCLI, rdt-cli]: OpenCLI rides the browser session
(desktop preferred); rdt-cli stays for servers and existing installs
(upstream unmaintained since 2026-03, noted in the ok message)
- install: desktop routes to OpenCLI, server installs rdt-cli from the
pinned git source (split out as _install_rdt_cli)
- skill/references/social.md: Reddit section rewritten as two backend
command groups + a PRAW note scoped to users who already hold
pre-2025-11 credentials (explicitly not recommended for new users)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- backends is now an ordered candidate list (first = preferred); channels
report the backend actually serving via active_backend, surfaced in the
doctor text report and --json
- new agent_reach/probe.py really executes upstream commands and tells
apart missing / broken (stale venv shebang after a system Python
upgrade) / timeout, with a reinstall prescription for broken installs
- all 13 channels migrated off which()-only checks: fixes bilibili
false-positive "bili-cli 可用" on broken shims, misleading xiaohongshu
"连接失败", rdt OSError crashing doctor, mcporter breakage masquerading
as "未配置"
- twitter: 15s probe + 1 retry (flaky 10s timeout), broken twitter-cli
now falls back to bird instead of aborting the check
- doctor survives per-channel exceptions; config supports per-channel
backend override (<channel>_backend / <CHANNEL>_BACKEND env)
- fix skill install/uninstall crash on symlinked skill dirs (the
"[Errno None] None" warning from shutil.rmtree on a symlink)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PyPI still only has rdt-cli 0.4.1 while the doctor hint required >=0.4.2, so the suggested install command always failed. Installs from the upstream GitHub repo pinned to the 0.4.2 commit instead, and syncs all four docs that still taught the PyPI path. Verified locally: clean-venv install from the pinned source yields rdt 0.4.2 and rdt status works. 86 tests pass. Fixes#294.
Four small correctness fixes found while live-testing community PRs:
- SKILL.md taught agents 'twitter search --limit 10' but twitter-cli
v0.8.5 has no --limit (real flag is -n/--max) — every agent following
the skill got a usage error
- transcribe_xiaoyuzhou.sh audio regex only matched lowercase .m4a/.mp3;
current episodes serve uppercase .MP3 (verified on a live episode) —
add /i flag
- reddit.py declared tier=0 (zero-config) while its own docstring says
Reddit requires login since 2024 — set tier=1 to match reality (tier
is doctor display metadata only)
- docs/README_en.md referenced the retired 'bird' CLI name once
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reddit: Exa crawling had chronic CRAWL_LIVECRAWL_TIMEOUT issues.
rdt-cli (304 stars, public-clis) works without login — search, read
full posts, and comments all verified. Massive improvement.
Bilibili: add bili-cli (590 stars) as optional enhanced backend for
hot/rank/search/feed. yt-dlp remains for video metadata + subtitles.
Also fix UA string (was "agent-reach/1.0", now proper browser UA).
75 tests passing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reddit blocks nearly all non-browser access at IP level (including ISP proxies).
Switch Reddit channel to use Exa exclusively:
- Search: web_search_exa with includeDomains: ["reddit.com"]
- Read: crawling_exa for full post + comments
- check() now verifies Exa availability instead of probing Reddit API
- tier changed from 1 (needs config) to 0 (zero config)
- Removed reddit_proxy from config, CLI, and setup guide
- Updated all docs (README, README_en, install.md, SKILL.md, references)
- Fixed xreach→bird references in references/social.md
Fixes#218, Fixes#222, Fixes#221
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reddit API requires a non-empty User-Agent header per its API rules.
Without it, the JSON endpoint returns 403 even when Reddit is reachable,
causing doctor to falsely report the channel as unavailable.
Changes:
- Add _reddit_reachable() helper that probes Reddit JSON API with UA
- doctor check() now distinguishes 'actually unreachable' from 'no proxy'
- Users on home IPs get 'ok' when Reddit is reachable; warn only on real failure
Fixes#168
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