analyze

analyze is a command for coding agents from ivbeg/newsworker. It costs 5 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that examines a news webpage and creates a reusable YAML description of how to extract its content. YAML is a plain-text format for structured settings; the resulting specification can be used by the extract command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a URL or local HTML file, save a parsing specification, configure request details such as headers or cookies, and prepare deterministic news extraction.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating automatic page analysis every time the same site is processed. The saved specification makes later extraction follow fixed selectors.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ivbeg/newsworker/analyze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivbeg/newsworker

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 505 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00005 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash babc4eef06de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze 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 4d 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.

docs/docs/commands/analyze.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

analyze

Runs the dynamic heuristics once and distils them into a portable YAML parsing spec. Feeding that spec back into extract --spec skips analysis and runs deterministic selectors.

newsworker analyze URL [OPTIONS]
Option Alias Default Description
--output -o (stdout) Path to write the YAML spec.
--file Local HTML file (- for stdin). Requires --base-url.
--base-url Absolute HTTP(S) URL used to resolve links in local HTML.
--user-agent (built-in) Override the User-Agent used for fetching.
--language (auto) Override the auto-detected feed language.
--proxy Proxy URL for outgoing requests.
--timeout 30 HTTP request timeout in seconds.
--header Extra HTTP header Key: Value (repeatable).
--cookies Path to a Netscape/Mozilla cookie jar file.
--insecure false Disable TLS certificate verification.
--ignore-robots false Fetch even when robots.txt disallows it.
--json-logs false Emit logs as structured JSON.
--config -c (default) Path to a settings YAML file.
--verbose -v false Verbose logging.

analyze uses the same fetch settings as extract. It records what the dynamic extractor would choose — including <time datetime="..."> dates and heading-based titles — and fails with a clear error when no dated news listings are found.

newsworker analyze "https://example.com/news" -o example.yaml
newsworker extract "https://example.com/news" -s example.yaml -f rss

See parsing specs for the YAML format, field reference, and analysis pipeline.

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. 4d ago First seen · 45 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A babc4eef06de

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analyze is a command published in the GitHub repository ivbeg/newsworker (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.