Sieve: posts worth your time

NEW IN 1.5.0 • New look: settings, the popup and Daily learnings now match Sieve for iPhone. Settings save as you change them. • Safer briefs: when a post hides commands or links meant for your coding agent (disguised shell commands, look-alike pipes, defanged links), Sieve now catches far more of them, flags the brief and leaves them out of the steps. • New (invite-only for now): Your agent sends your saved posts and briefs to your Sieve account, so your coding agent can read them next to your iPhone pins. Sieve tells you which posts and videos on LinkedIn, X, Reddit and YouTube are worth your time. For developers who build with coding agents, it turns a technique worth trying into a brief your agent can try in your repo. It never writes, clicks, likes or posts anything for you, and it never installs or runs anything: a brief is text you copy. Scoring runs on Jev, TypeSafe's decision model, reached through your OpenRouter key. Sieve is independent and not made by TypeSafe. Jev answers narrow questions (is this worth reading? could you answer this?) from fixed lists, plain code applies your rules, and you do the part that needs judgement. MAKE IT YOURS • Tell it who you are and up to 8 topics you care about. Every post is scored against your topics, not someone else's. • Choose which kinds of posts to see, add words that always show a post (a person, your company) or never do (crypto, webinar), set your own thresholds, and choose whether weak posts fade, hide or stay. • On Reddit, limit it to the subreddits you pick and decide what "still fresh" means. TECHNIQUE BRIEFS • On LinkedIn and X, a post that teaches a method, tool, prompt or workflow you could try gets a "technique to try" badge and, unless it scores low, a Brief button. On YouTube and X videos, Watch it for me writes a brief when the video teaches one. • A brief says what the technique is, what the author claims (labelled as their claims), what to check, what you need, a way to try it in 15 to 30 minutes, and whether it's worth keeping as a skill. • Copy as prompt puts the brief on your clipboard for your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any other). It opens with a note that this is someone else's material, to be treated as information and not as instructions, and it asks the agent to check with you before running any command. • When the source contains text aimed at AI agents, the brief says so at the top, drops any step that has a link, a download, a pipe into a shell or a package install, and tells your agent not to fetch, install or run anything from it unless you ask. This lowers the risk; it doesn't remove it. Read the source before you act on a brief. LINKEDIN • Every post that stays on your screen for half a second gets a score. Posts worth a close read get a blue bar and a badge with the kind of post and the topic. Weak posts fade (hover to read them). Promoted posts are skipped. X • Posts on your timeline are scored the same way, against your own topics. Ads are skipped. • Brief reads the whole post, not the "Show more" cut, and on a post's own page the author's whole thread and its pictures. • Watch it for me works on X videos as it does on YouTube. REDDIT • A different question: is this someone asking for help you could answer from your own experience? The badge also shows the thread's age and comment count, and whether it's still fresh enough to answer. YOUTUBE • Each video gets a score and a verdict, from the title, channel and length, the text YouTube shows with the tile (description lines, chapters, YouTube's summary), and for a tile that shows only a title, the start of the video's description. That last part can be switched off in settings. • Watch it for me: on a public video you choose, up to 55 minutes long, a video model watches it and sends back the best moment, the key points and what you could learn from it. Specific claims worth checking are listed under "Check before repeating", and the summary says plainly that what it reports are the creator's claims, not verified facts. DAILY LEARNINGS • Posts that score high, and any post you brief, are kept in your browser for 30 days. Summaries of videos watched for you and your briefs are kept too, the newest 300 of each. The digest page turns your posts into what people built or tested, numbers worth remembering, patterns, people worth a conversation, and open questions. Every point names its author, because these are their claims, not verified facts. • Briefs from the last 30 days are listed on the digest page, each with Copy as prompt. • Export library saves everything Sieve kept (posts, video summaries, briefs and digests) as one JSON file on your computer. • Reddit threads you could still answer are listed at the top. • Optional daily reminder (18:00 by default), only when something new was saved. WHAT YOU NEED • An OpenRouter API key, for scoring, briefs, video summaries and digests. It is entered on the settings page and stays in your browser. • Typical cost with the default models: about 3 to 5 US cents per 1,000 posts scored, a small fraction of a cent per brief, and about 0.2 US cents per minute of video watched for you. PRIVACY The extension reads only the posts and videos you scroll past, in your own browser. For scoring, post text goes with your role and topics (and on Reddit, your Reddit facts) to OpenRouter with your key, which passes it to TypeSafe for Jev. If OpenRouter can't reach Jev, it goes through OpenRouter to a fixed general model instead. Nothing but scoring goes to TypeSafe. When you ask for a brief or a digest, text goes to OpenRouter. On X, a brief can also send the links to the post's pictures, and Watch it for me the link to its video file. When you ask Sieve to watch a YouTube video, its link, title and channel go to OpenRouter. If you say yes when asked, once a day it sends the developer counts of what you used (posts scored, briefs made and similar, per platform) through Google Analyt…