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Grab just the article from a web page

Give it a link and it pulls out the main text as clean Markdown, minus the ads and menus.

Good for: People who often have AI read web pages or look things up

Read this first: If defuddle isn't installed, it installs it globally with npm first.

What you can do once it's installed

Just say the “You say to AI” line, with your own details swapped in.

Save a great article

You say to AI

Grab the main text of this article and save it as article.md. The link is below.

What AI does

  1. 1.Reads the page with defuddle
  2. 2.Strips out menus, ads and clutter
  3. 3.Outputs Markdown and saves it to a file

What you get

A Markdown file with just the article, nice and clean to read.

Check titles and descriptions first

You say to AI

What are each of these links about? For now, just give me the title and description of each one.

What AI does

  1. 1.Reads each page's title in turn
  2. 2.Then reads each page's description

What you get

A list matching each link to its title and description.

Want the original instructions? SKILL.md on kepano/obsidian-skills

How to install

Which AI tool do you use?

  1. 1. Open the Terminal app on your computer, paste the line below and press Enter

    npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills@defuddle -g

    With no tool name, the command looks for the AI tools on your computer and asks where to install. If it says npx is missing or too old, install the latest Node.js (22 or newer) first.

    First time using the terminal?
    • How to open it: on a Mac, press ⌘ + Space and search “Terminal”. On Windows, search “PowerShell” in the Start menu. In Cursor, Trae or VS Code, use the menu Terminal → New Terminal.
    • Windows says “running scripts is disabled”: change npx at the start of the command to npx.cmd and try again.
    • If a list pops up: move with the arrow keys, press Space to tick the tools you want, then press Enter.
    • How to tell it worked: you'll see a success message. Reopen your AI tool and ask “What Skills do you have now?” to check.

    Don't feel like opening a terminal?

    Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Trae can run commands themselves. Send them this:

    Please run this command in my terminal and tell me how it went: npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills@defuddle -g

  2. 2. Reopen your AI tool

    New Skills only get picked up after a restart.

  3. 3. Just say what you want

    Say it the way the examples do. To call it by name, say “Use defuddle to help me…”.

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