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Read Deleted Pages skill
Runs by itself, weekly archive check.

Watched page changes preserved as evidence.

Install the Read Deleted Pages skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/useosint/read-deleted-pages.md

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  2. 2Paste into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
  3. 3It runs by itself

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Read Deleted Pages

by useosint · 2K installs

The skill

The read deleted pages skill helps investigators, journalists and diligence teams recover deleted or edited web pages with the Wayback CDX API, archive.today and Common Crawl, and preserve evidence.

Only when you ask.

The habit

Watched page changes preserved as evidence.

↻ Runs by itselfweekly archive check

How the habit works.
You don't have to.

Three questionsWhen does it start? How does it check its work? What does it remember?

01

It starts by itself

weekly archive check. Runs in Claude Code routine or cron.

  • ↻ weekly archive check
  • 0 7 * * 1

02

It checks its work

captures hashed and logged. If a check fails, it tells you.

  • ✓each new capture has statuscode 200 and a digest in the CDX index
  • ✓a WARC file and its sha256sum file exist per preserved page
  • ✓every citation has the archive URL, timestamp and UTC capture time

03

It remembers

watched URLs and digests. The next run reads it first: the last digest seen per URL.

loops/page-change-archive-loop/watchlist.md

One run, step by step.
Then it stops.

Stop ruleStops after 20 watched URLs per run.

  1. 01

    Query CDX

    Run the CDX query with output=json and collapse=digest for each watched URL.

  2. 02

    Fetch raw

    Download new captures with the id_ suffix, not the replay page.

  3. 03

    Diff

    Compare raw captures as text and note what was removed.

  4. 04

    Preserve live

    Submit the URL to Save Page Now and archive.today.

  5. 05

    Keep your copy

    Save a WARC with wget --warc-file and hash it with sha256sum.

  6. 06

    Grade

    Grade each finding as confirmed, probable, unconfirmed or rejected.

What it may do.
Nothing more.

Safe by defaultIt writes only in its own folder and asks you before anything goes out.

Is it for you?
Use it when it fits.

Quick checkRead both lists. If the left one sounds like you, the Read Deleted Pages skill helps.

Use it when

  • ✓ A page now returns 404
  • ✓ You need what a site said before
  • ✓ You must preserve web evidence

Skip it when

  • – The content is behind a login
  • – You plan to republish erased personal data

Questions

Read Deleted Pages skill, answered.

Does no capture mean the page never existed?

No. Check two archives before writing no record.

Is the replay page what the site looked like?

Not always; replay mixes resources from other dates, so cite the raw HTML capture.

How do I install the Read Deleted Pages skill?

Copy the prompt at the top into your agent. It installs the skill from useosint/skills and sets up the habit. Or run npx skills add useosint/skills --skill read-deleted-pages.

Is the Read Deleted Pages skill free?

Yes. It is published under MIT. Habit is free too.

Read Deleted Pages. Now as a habit.

Install the Read Deleted Pages skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/useosint/read-deleted-pages.md

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Works in

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude app

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