opencli-adapter-author

What it does: This skill is a step-by-step guide for building a small connector program, called an adapter, that lets the OpenCLI tool automatically pull data from a specific website. It walks through checking whether the website's data is even reachable in a browser, whether it comes back as normal readable data instead of something that needs a live, constantly updating connection, and then picks the safest way to grab it. It strongly prefers using a website's official, public data connection when one exists, and only falls back to reading the visible webpage directly, or to riskier, undocumented backend requests, when nothing safer is available, because those undocumented shortcuts tend to break far more often as the site changes. The guide walks through scouting the target site, finding exactly where its data lives, decoding unfamiliar field names, writing the small adapter file from a template, and finally testing that it works. Once it works, it saves what it learned about that website so the next attempt is faster. When to use it: Use this when someone needs to build or extend a connector so an automated tool can reliably read data from a particular website going forward, rather than doing a one-off manual browse.