What is rss-news AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for rss-news-mcp, a TypeScript and Node.js server that manages RSS subscriptions and stores, syncs, and marks news as consumed. RSS is a format websites use to publish updates for feed readers.

Use them when working on subscriptions, incremental news fetching, consumed or unconsumed entries, RSSHub URL normalization, or the server's MCP tools.

They preserve the project's data meanings and tool contracts, reducing the risk that changes break news syncing or subscription behavior.

How max1ab/rss-news configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to max1ab/rss-news. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/max1ab/rss-news/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/max1ab/rss-news

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md

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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.

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Per session 727 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 727 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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	$0.00727	$0.00727
Opus 5.5	$0.00291	$0.00291
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00145	$0.00145
Haiku 4.5	$0.00073	$0.00073

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5664e3c512de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rss-news AGENTS.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 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.

AGENTS.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Agent guidance for rss-news-mcp.

Project scope

Node.js + TypeScript MCP server.
Main goal: manage RSS subscriptions, sync news incrementally, and expose stable MCP tools for previewing, fetching, consuming, and counting news.
Runtime DB default:
- Windows: %APPDATA%/rss-news/rss.sqlite
- Other platforms: ~/.local/share/rss-news/rss.sqlite

Core data model (do not break semantics)

subscriptions: current subscribed feeds plus sync metadata.
entries: fetched news storage (feed_url + entry_uid is unique).
deliveries: consumed marker storage.
State mapping in this project:
- consumed = exists in deliveries
- unconsumed = not in deliveries
On first creation of a new database, seed default subscriptions from example-subscriptions.json.

MCP tool contracts

list_subscriptions
- Returns current subscriptions and sync metadata from subscriptions.
upsert_subscriptions
- Adds or updates subscriptions.
- Known RSSHub instance URLs must be normalized to canonical rsshub://... feedUrls.
- Return both inputFeedUrl and canonical feedUrl.
remove_subscriptions
- Removes subscriptions by canonical feedUrl.
- RSSHub subscriptions must be removed using the stored rsshub://... feedUrl.
- mode=purge also deletes matching entries and deliveries.
preview_feed
- Does not write subscriptions, entries, or deliveries.
- Supports multiple feed URLs in one request.
- Returns canonical feedUrl for each input.
sync_news
- feedUrls is optional; if missing, use all subscribed feeds.
- Reject unsubscribed feedUrls.
fetch_news
- feedUrls is optional; if missing, use all subscribed feeds.
- limit is a global total limit across feeds (not per-feed).
- includeConsumed=false means only unconsumed items.
- Does not modify deliveries.
- Returned publishedAt / firstSeenAt must be YYYY-MM-DD strings.
consume_news
- Same query shape as fetch_news.
- Marks returned unconsumed items in deliveries.
count_news
- Supports includeConsumed switch.
set_consumption_status
- Changes consumed state by date range via deliveries insert/delete.
- Date input is YYYY-MM-DD and treated in UTC day boundaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 727 tokens per session scan A 5664e3c512de

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rss-news AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository max1ab/rss-news (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 727 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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