Use when user shares a Medium article URL behind a paywall and wants to read the full content. Also use for articles on Medium-hosted publications like towardsdatascience.com, betterprogramming.pub, levelup.gitconnected.com, etc.
Install
npx skills add ratacat/claude-skills --skill medium-paywall-bypassnpx skills add ratacat/claude-skills --skill medium-paywall-bypass -a claude-code -gnpx skills add ratacat/claude-skills --skill medium-paywall-bypass -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/ratacat/claude-skills.git --path skills/medium-paywall-bypassgh skill install ratacat/claude-skills medium-paywall-bypassgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratacat/claude-skills /tmp/ratacat__claude-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/ratacat__claude-skills/skills/medium-paywall-bypass ~/.claude/skills/medium-paywall-bypass # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/ratacat__claude-skills/skills/medium-paywall-bypass ~/.agents/skills/medium-paywall-bypass # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode