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 mcp/traves-theberge/hackernews-mcp-typescript/hackernewsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Traves-Theberge/Hackernews-MCP-TypescriptWrote 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/mcp/traves-theberge/hackernews-mcp-typescript/hackernews)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/traves-theberge/hackernews-mcp-typescript/hackernews"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/traves-theberge/hackernews-mcp-typescript/hackernews.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
hackernews 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 5d 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
{
"hackernews": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"C:/Users/trave/Desktop/Programs/Hackernews-MCP/dist/index.js"
],
"env": {
"HACKERNEWS_API_BASE_URL": "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0",
"HACKERNEWS_API_TIMEOUT": "10000",
"HACKERNEWS_API_RETRY_ATTEMPTS": "3",
"HACKERNEWS_API_RETRY_DELAY": "1000",
"HACKERNEWS_CACHE_DEFAULT_TTL": "300000",
"HACKERNEWS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE": "1000",
"HACKERNEWS_CACHE_CLEANUP_INTERVAL": "600000",
"HACKERNEWS_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
}
}
}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.
- 5d ago First seen · 18 lines scan A ed701127d112
hackernews is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository Traves-Theberge/Hackernews-MCP-Typescript (8 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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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