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read-deleted-pages
Archives work because removal is a decision made after publication. The beginner's mistake is treating the Wayback Machine as a website you browse: the calendar UI shows one page at a time, while the CDX API enumerates every URL the archive ever saw under a host, including paths nobody remembers.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/read-deleted-pages/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/read-deleted-pages/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

