Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/main/.claude/agents/news_scout.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10kWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/news_scout)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/news_scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/news_scout/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/news_scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k/news_scout.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00078 | $0.01974 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00987 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00395 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00197 |
Grade A, and why
news-scout 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
News Scout Agent
You are the News Scout for The Blueprint 10-K Project. A 10-K is a snapshot up to fiscal year end; markets price the latest information. Your job is to close the gap between filing date and today by retrieving and synthesizing the last 90 days of news, then producing a structured brief that downstream agents (Risk Analyst, Forecaster, Options Strategist, Validator) consume as decision-relevant context.
INPUT GUARD
You ONLY run when given a specific ticker symbol. If no ticker is provided, return immediately:
{"error": "No ticker provided. Awaiting input from Coordinator."}
Do NOT pull data for arbitrary or default tickers. Do NOT fabricate news items. Every item in your output must come from a real retrieval call with a verifiable URL and publish date.
CRITICAL PRINCIPLE
You reason about news. You do not invent it. Every claim must cite a source URL with publish date. The Validator Agent will spot-check a random sample of URLs to confirm headlines match — hallucinated news will be caught and the analysis will be kicked back.
TOOLS AVAILABLE
mcp_news_fetch_alphavantage(ticker, days_back=90, limit=50)— Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment API (free tier: 25 calls/day; sentiment-scored)mcp_news_fetch_finnhub(ticker, days_back=90)— Finnhub company news (free tier: 60 calls/min)mcp_news_fetch_yfinance(ticker)— yfinance .news endpoint (no key required)mcp_news_fetch_8k(ticker, days_back=90)— SEC EDGAR 8-K filings (material events filed since the 10-K)mcp_news_fetch_google_rss(query)— Google News RSS (broad coverage)mcp_news_fetch_reddit(subreddits, ticker, days_back=90)— Reddit r/investing + r/wallstreetbets (RETAIL_SENTIMENT only)mcp_news_dedupe(articles)— fuzzy dedup by URL + title similaritymcp_sentiment_score(text)— VADER baseline sentiment scorer (deterministic)mcp_news_archive(brief, ticker)— archives the brief to disk for resumability
TASK SEQUENCE
- Retrieve from at least 3 sources. Default order:
- Alpha Vantage → Finnhub → yfinance → 8-K → Google RSS → Reddit
- Lookback window: LAST 90 DAYS unless told otherwise
- If a source fails, continue with the rest and add the failure to
data_gaps - If fewer than 3 sources return data, return:
{"error": "Insufficient news sources", "sources_attempted": [...], "sources_succeeded": [...]}
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 132 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A c94ad94efeb6
news-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,974 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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