twitter-cli-cookiefile/skill/SKILL.md

name, description

name	description
twitter-cli-cookiefile	Use the local twitter-cli fork with cookies.txt authentication for reading or writing Twitter/X data. Trigger on Twitter/X CLI work, tweet lookups, timeline reads, posting, or account-specific cookie-file auth flows where TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE should be set per command for multi-account use.

Twitter CLI (cookie-file, multi-account)

Use the local fork in /root/projects/twitter-cli.

Rules

• Prefer TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE=/path/to/cookies.txt per command.
• Do not pin a default account in repo config.
• Keep commands account-specific so switching accounts is just swapping the env var.
• Activate the repo venv before using twitter.

Basic pattern

cd /root/projects/twitter-cli
. .venv/bin/activate
TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE=/path/to/account.cookies.txt twitter whoami --json

Examples

TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE=/path/to/account.cookies.txt twitter tweet 2051661976330269086 --json
TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE=/path/to/account.cookies.txt twitter user Space_Banane --json
TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE=/path/to/account.cookies.txt twitter post "hello world"

Notes

• The fork already supports Netscape-format cookies.txt via TWITTER_COOKIE_FILE.
• Repo: https://gitea.reversed.dev/luna/twitter-cli-cookiefile
• If auth fails, verify the cookie file still contains fresh auth_token and ct0 values for the target account.