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Libby Book Monitor

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alexpolonsky·vlatest·other·MIT

Libby-Book-Monitor tracks your Libby library holds & availability, notifying you when books are ready to borrow.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add alexpolonsky/agent-skill-libby-book-monitor --skill libby-book-monitor -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

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alexpolonsky

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This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: thunder.api.overdrive.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    thunder.api.overdrive.comundeclared

    What it found

    • scripts/libby-book-monitor.py:27contacts thunder.api.overdrive.com
      API_BASE = "https://thunder.api.overdrive.com/v2/libraries"

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

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  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned alexpolonsky/agent-skill-libby-book-monitor at 418f53ca07.

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418f53ca07
Manifest
SKILL.md
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4 files, 690 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The Libby Book Monitor skill allows an AI agent to track the availability of books on your local library's Libby platform. It checks for specific titles and notifies you when they become available, or provides information about waitlist positions. The skill can also be used to search for books by title, author, or keyword within the Libby catalog.

When to use it

  • You want to be notified when a popular book becomes available on Libby.
  • You're interested in a book with a long waitlist and want to know your position.
  • You need help finding books matching specific criteria (author, title, keyword) within the Libby catalog.
  • You are traveling and want to check availability of titles at another library’s Libby branch.

Key capabilities

  • Checks book availability on Libby.
  • Provides waitlist position information.
  • Searches for books by title, author, or keyword.
  • Supports multiple Libby libraries.

Example prompts

  • "Check if 'Project Hail Mary' is available at my local library."
  • "What’s my place in line for ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea’?"
  • “Find me books by Neil Gaiman on Libby.”

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure your AI agent has access to your Libby account credentials.
  • Libby's availability data can sometimes be delayed, so results may not always be instantaneous.