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.
npx agentmods add commands/ivbeg/newsworker/batchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivbeg/newsworkerWhat 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 | $0.00005 | $0.00433 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00217 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00001 | $0.00087 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00043 |
Grade A, and why
batch 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 2d 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
batch
Extracts feeds from a list of pages concurrently, writing one file per URL.
newsworker batch [OPTIONS]
| Option | Alias | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--urls-file |
— | Text file with one page URL per line. | |
--from-opml |
— | OPML file; each outline's htmlUrl (or xmlUrl) is used as the page URL. |
|
--output-dir |
-d |
. |
Directory for one output file per URL. |
--format |
-f |
json |
Output format (same set as extract). |
--max-workers |
4 |
Concurrent workers (thread pool, or aiohttp when --async). |
|
--async |
false |
Use the optional aiohttp transport (newsworker[async]). |
|
--manifest |
— | Write a run manifest to this path. | |
--manifest-format |
json |
Manifest format: json or csv. |
|
--failure-policy |
strict |
strict or partial-success. |
|
--no-cache |
false |
Bypass caches for this run. | |
--config |
-c |
(default) | Path to settings YAML. |
--verbose |
-v |
false |
Verbose logging. |
newsworker batch --urls-file urls.txt --output-dir out --format rss
newsworker batch --from-opml feeds.opml -d out -f json --max-workers 8
pip install 'newsworker[async]'
newsworker batch --urls-file urls.txt -d out --async
See batch manifests for artifact naming, record fields, and exit codes.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 0c3f8d6bc09f
batch is a command published in the GitHub repository ivbeg/newsworker (87 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 433 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
release-prepare
Require one explicit semantic version argument. Refuse an existing published version or Git tag.
release-verify
Read AGENTS.md, the entire .agents/PRIVATERELEASEPLAN.md, .agents/FAILURERETROSPECTIVE.md, and docs/releasing.md. Inspect the worktree and version-bearing files first.
OPSX: Archive
Archive a completed change in the experimental workflow.
OPSX: Explore
Enter explore mode - think through ideas, investigate problems, clarify requirements.
OPSX: Apply
Implement tasks from an OpenSpec change (Experimental).
OPSX: Propose
Propose a new change - create it and generate all artifacts in one step.