SKILL.md
# Summarize Link Take a single URL and produce a tight, lossless 3-paragraph summary that a busy reader can absorb in under 60 seconds. ## When to use Use this skill when the user gives you a URL — an article, blog post, research paper, docs page, or news story — and asks for a summary, the gist, or "what's this about?". Default to this format unless the user asks for bullets, a TL;DR-only, or a longer treatment. ## Inputs - A single URL (required). HTTPS only. - Optional: `audience` — e.g. "engineer", "marketer", "five-year-old". If absent, write for a smart generalist. - Optional: `focus` — a specific question to answer from the page. ## Process 1. Fetch the URL. If fetching fails, say so and stop. Do not guess. 2. Strip nav, footer, comments, and other chrome. Keep the body. 3. Identify the thesis and the 2–4 strongest supporting claims. 4. Write three paragraphs in the format below. 5. If the page is a video transcript or interview, attribute quotes to the actual speaker, not "the article". ## Output format Exactly three paragraphs. No headings, no bullets, no preamble. - **Paragraph 1 — What it says.** State the thesis in plain English. One or two sentences setting the scene, then the core claim. - **Paragraph 2 — Why it matters / how it argues it.** The strongest evidence, the mechanism, or the surprising data point. This is where most of the substance lives. - **Paragraph 3 — What's missing or worth pushing back on.** The honest limitation, counter-argument, or open question. End on something the reader can do or check next. End the summary with one line: `Source: <url>` ## Example > Source: https://example.com/why-static-sites-won.html Static-site generators have quietly displaced most CMS-driven blogs because the cost of a CDN-served HTML file is now indistinguishable from zero. The author argues that the win isn't speed — it's that "infinite scale at zero cost" reframes what counts as a viable publishing project: a hobbyist blog now costs the same as a Fortune 500 microsite. The strongest evidence is a year-long survey of 4,200 personal sites that migrated off WordPress: median monthly hosting bill dropped from $11 to $0.04, and median Core Web Vitals score moved from 62 to 91. Crucially, the author shows the migration takes <2 hours for a typical 500-post archive — the cost barrier wasn't the platform, it was the perceived difficulty. What's missing is a serious treatment of dynamic features — comments, search, member-only content — where static sites still need a SaaS crutch. The piece also doesn't grapple with content velocity: WordPress is bad at performance but excellent at "publish a thought in 30 seconds". For a high-frequency publisher, that may still tip the balance. Source: https://example.com/why-static-sites-won.html ## Hard rules - Three paragraphs. Not two, not four. Not a list pretending to be paragraphs. - Never invent a fact, statistic, or quote. If it isn't on the page, it doesn't go in. - Never editorialize beyond what the source supports. - If the page is paywalled or blocked, say so explicitly: "Could not access content".