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 instructions/jonnadul/newsapi-mcp/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonnadul/newsapi-mcpWrote 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/instructions/jonnadul/newsapi-mcp/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonnadul/newsapi-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonnadul/newsapi-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00352 | $0.00352 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00176 | $0.00176 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00070 | $0.00070 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
newsapi-mcp copilot-instructions.md 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 3d 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
NewsAPI MCP Server Development
This is a TypeScript-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with NewsAPI. The server exposes tools for searching articles, getting top headlines, and discovering news sources.
Project Setup Progress
- Create project structure
- Set up TypeScript configuration
- Create package.json with dependencies
- Implement main server with three tools:
- search_articles: Search news by keywords
- get_top_headlines: Get top headlines by country/category
- get_sources: Discover available news sources
- Create MCP configuration file
- Create comprehensive README with setup and usage instructions
- Add .gitignore file
Quick Start
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Install dependencies:
npm install -
Build TypeScript:
npm run build -
Set your NewsAPI key:
export NEWS_API_KEY="your-key-here" -
Configure in Claude Desktop or use MCP Inspector to test
Available Tools
- search_articles - Search news articles by keyword with filtering options
- get_top_headlines - Get top headlines by country or category
- get_sources - List available news sources with filtering
References
- MCP Documentation: https://modelcontextprotocol.io
- TypeScript SDK: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
- NewsAPI: https://newsapi.org
Next Steps
- Install npm dependencies
- Build the project
- Test with MCP Inspector
- Configure with Claude Desktop or other MCP clients
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 352 tokens per session scan A 723173984b60
newsapi-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonnadul/newsapi-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 352 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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 2026-09-01.
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