Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add heurema/herald/plugin install heraldWrote 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/commands/heurema/herald/news-status)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/heurema/herald/news-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/heurema/herald/news-status/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/commands/heurema/herald/news-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/heurema/herald/news-status.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 | $0.00011 | $0.00193 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00097 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00039 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00019 |
Grade A, and why
news-status scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
You are showing the user's herald status.
Steps
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Check setup: Find the herald data directory:
cd "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" && PYTHONPATH=. python3 -c "from herald.cli import _default_data_dir; print(_default_data_dir())"Verify
herald.dbexists there (defaults to~/.local/share/herald/; use--data-dirorHERALD_DATA_DIRto override). If not: "Run/news-initfirst." -
Show status:
cd "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" && PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m herald.cli status
- Present the article count, story count, and last run time in a readable format.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 24 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 9191b8d7986d
news-status is a command published in the GitHub repository heurema/herald (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 193 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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