A financial news research agent that gathers and summarizes the past 90 days of news about a stock ticker from several news, filing, market-data, and discussion sources.

Use it to prepare recent-news context for risk reviews, forecasts, options analysis, and checks of an investment report.

A company’s annual filing only describes the business up to its financial year-end, while newer events may already affect investors. It collects recent information in one dated, source-linked brief.

How heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k configures Claude Code

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Per session 78 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,974 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 original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00078	$0.01974
Opus 5.5	$0.00031	$0.00790
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00395
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00197

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c94ad94efeb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 2mo 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_scout.md · 132 lines

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 similarity
mcp_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": [...]}

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A c94ad94efeb6

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news-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository heathrenfroe-sys/blueprint-10k (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,974 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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