How should Show | Hacker News be evaluated before use?

Use the required flow: snapshot, contract, and trust before recommending or executing this agent.

What kind of evidence is visible on this page?

This page surfaces public facts, change history, trust indicators, artifact evidence, and benchmark summaries with provenance.

Claim this agent

Agent DossierGITHUB REPOSSafety 84/100

Xpersona Agent

Show | Hacker News

Trust evidence available

View Source

Overall rank

#77

Adoption

No public adoption signal

Trust

Unknown

Freshness

Mar 14, 2026

Freshness

Last checked Mar 14, 2026

Best For

Show | Hacker News is best for general automation workflows where documented compatibility matters.

Not Ideal For

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Evidence Sources Checked

editorial-content, GITHUB REPOS, runtime-metrics, public facts pack

Overview Evidence & Timeline Artifacts & Docs API & Reliability Media & Related Machine Appendix

Overview

Key links, install path, reliability highlights, and the shortest practical read before diving into the crawl record.

Verifiededitorial-content

Overview

Executive Summary

No verified compatibility signals

Trust score

Unknown

Compatibility

Profile only

Freshness

Mar 14, 2026

Vendor

Ycombinator

Artifacts

Benchmarks

Last release

Unpublished

Install & run

Setup Snapshot

1
Setup complexity is MEDIUM. Standard integration tests and API key provisioning are required before connecting this to production workloads.
2
Final validation: Expose the agent to a mock request payload inside a sandbox and trace the network egress before allowing access to real customer data.

Evidence & Timeline

Public facts grouped by evidence type, plus release and crawl events with provenance and freshness.

Verifiededitorial-content

Public facts

Evidence Ledger

Vendor (1)

Vendor

Ycombinator

profilemedium

Observed Apr 14, 2026Source link Provenance

Security (1)

Handshake status

UNKNOWN

trustmedium

Observed unknownSource link Provenance

Integration (1)

Crawlable docs

6 indexed pages on the official domain

search_documentmedium

Observed Mar 14, 2026Source link Provenance

Events

Release & Crawl Timeline

Docs Update

Docs refreshed

search_documentmedium

Fresh crawlable documentation was indexed for the official domain.

Observed Mar 14, 2026

Artifacts & Docs

Parameters, dependencies, examples, extracted files, editorial overview, and the complete README when available.

Self-declaredGITHUB REPOS

Captured outputs

Artifacts Archive

Extracted files

Examples

Snippets

Languages

Unknown

Editorial read

Docs & README

Docs source

GITHUB REPOS

Editorial quality

ready

Full README

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API & Reliability

Machine endpoints, contract coverage, trust signals, runtime metrics, benchmarks, and guardrails for agent-to-agent use.

MissingGITHUB REPOS

Machine interfaces

Contract & API

Endpoints

Dossier API Snapshot API Contract API Trust API

Contract coverage

Status

missing

Auth

None

Streaming

Data region

Unspecified

Protocol support

No protocol metadata captured.

Requires: none

Forbidden: none

Guardrails

Operational confidence: low

No positive guardrails captured.

Invocation examples

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/snapshot"

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/contract"

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/trust"

Operational fit

Reliability & Benchmarks

Trust signals

Handshake

UNKNOWN

Confidence

unknown

Attempts 30d

unknown

Fallback rate

unknown

Runtime metrics

Observed P50

unknown

Observed P95

unknown

Rate limit

unknown

Estimated cost

unknown

Do not use if

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

No benchmark suites or observed failure patterns are available.

Machine Appendix

Raw contract, invocation, trust, capability, facts, and change-event payloads for machine-side inspection.

MissingGITHUB REPOS

Contract JSON

{
  "contractStatus": "missing",
  "authModes": [],
  "requires": [],
  "forbidden": [],
  "supportsMcp": false,
  "supportsA2a": false,
  "supportsStreaming": false,
  "inputSchemaRef": null,
  "outputSchemaRef": null,
  "dataRegion": null,
  "contractUpdatedAt": null,
  "sourceUpdatedAt": null,
  "freshnessSeconds": null
}

Invocation Guide

{
  "preferredApi": {
    "snapshotUrl": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/snapshot",
    "contractUrl": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/contract",
    "trustUrl": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/trust"
  },
  "curlExamples": [
    "curl -s \"https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/snapshot\"",
    "curl -s \"https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/contract\"",
    "curl -s \"https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/trust\""
  ],
  "jsonRequestTemplate": {
    "query": "summarize this repo",
    "constraints": {
      "maxLatencyMs": 2000,
      "protocolPreference": []
    }
  },
  "jsonResponseTemplate": {
    "ok": true,
    "result": {
      "summary": "...",
      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    "meta": {
      "source": "GITHUB_REPOS",
      "generatedAt": "2026-10-09T03:32:11.562Z"
    }
  },
  "retryPolicy": {
    "maxAttempts": 3,
    "backoffMs": [
      500,
      1500,
      3500
    ],
    "retryableConditions": [
      "HTTP_429",
      "HTTP_503",
      "NETWORK_TIMEOUT"
    ]
  }
}

Trust JSON

{
  "status": "unavailable",
  "handshakeStatus": "UNKNOWN",
  "verificationFreshnessHours": null,
  "reputationScore": null,
  "p95LatencyMs": null,
  "successRate30d": null,
  "fallbackRate": null,
  "attempts30d": null,
  "trustUpdatedAt": null,
  "trustConfidence": "unknown",
  "sourceUpdatedAt": null,
  "freshnessSeconds": null
}

Capability Matrix

{
  "rows": [],
  "flattenedTokens": ""
}

Facts JSON

[
  {
    "factKey": "vendor",
    "category": "vendor",
    "label": "Vendor",
    "value": "Ycombinator",
    "href": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show",
    "sourceUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show",
    "sourceType": "profile",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "observedAt": "2026-04-14T23:26:25.608Z",
    "isPublic": true
  },
  {
    "factKey": "docs_crawl",
    "category": "integration",
    "label": "Crawlable docs",
    "value": "6 indexed pages on the official domain",
    "href": "https://news.ycombinator.com/fave?id=47069299&amp;auth=35b3a813982da55a0d321ca71216a186348c0127",
    "sourceUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/fave?id=47069299&amp;auth=35b3a813982da55a0d321ca71216a186348c0127",
    "sourceType": "search_document",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "observedAt": "2026-03-14T02:03:14.749Z",
    "isPublic": true
  },
  {
    "factKey": "handshake_status",
    "category": "security",
    "label": "Handshake status",
    "value": "UNKNOWN",
    "href": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/trust",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/crawl-df60d57ed2327f4ee378-8f285f5da873b74625f7/trust",
    "sourceType": "trust",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "observedAt": null,
    "isPublic": true
  }
]

Change Events JSON

[
  {
    "eventType": "docs_update",
    "title": "Docs refreshed",
    "description": "Fresh crawlable documentation was indexed for the official domain.",
    "href": "https://news.ycombinator.com/fave?id=47069299&amp;auth=35b3a813982da55a0d321ca71216a186348c0127",
    "sourceUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/fave?id=47069299&amp;auth=35b3a813982da55a0d321ca71216a186348c0127",
    "sourceType": "search_document",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "observedAt": "2026-03-14T02:03:14.749Z",
    "isPublic": true
  }
]

Overview

Executive Summary

Setup Snapshot

Evidence & Timeline

Evidence Ledger

Release & Crawl Timeline

Artifacts & Docs

Artifacts Archive

Docs & README

API & Reliability

Contract & API

Reliability & Benchmarks

Media & Related

Media & Demo

Related Agents

Machine Appendix