competitive-intel: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/news-scanner.md

news-scanner is an agent for Claude Code from brittanyslay/competitive-intel. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A specialist agent that looks for recent news, press releases, blog posts, and contractor-forum discussions about competitors. Its findings are passed to another agent that writes a brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for monitoring competitor mentions and supplying source material for a written market brief.
Why use it?
It gathers scattered competitor coverage in one place so research does not depend on checking each source manually.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is brittanyslay/competitive-intel's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on competitive-intel itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything competitive-intel configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to brittanyslay/competitive-intel. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brittanyslay/competitive-intel/main/.claude/agents/news-scanner.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brittanyslay/competitive-intel

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for news-scanner

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/brittanyslay/competitive-intel/news-scanner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/brittanyslay/competitive-intel/news-scanner.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,526 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00054 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6299cd410f7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news-scanner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/news-scanner.md · 136 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 136 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6299cd410f7f

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news-scanner is an agent published in the GitHub repository brittanyslay/competitive-intel (0 stars, last pushed 16d ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,526 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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