news-media

news-media is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentproto/ts. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A browser skill for reading articles from news sites such as Le Monde, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and Mediapart, including sites that require consent or a subscriber session. A consent wall is a screen asking permission to use cookies before showing the article.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read or extract articles from supported news and media websites while handling consent prompts and an existing logged-in subscription.
Why use it?
It explains how to get past cookie-consent screens and subscriber access checks so article text can be extracted from the page. Without those steps, the useful content may remain hidden.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to read or extract articles from supported news and media websites while handling consent prompts and an existing logged-in subscription.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentproto/ts/news-media
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agentproto/ts --skill news-media
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentproto/ts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 8d ago against content hash 654f36a276ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news-media 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 8d 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.

packages/skill-pack-bureau/src/skills/news-media/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

News / media (lemonde.fr, etc.) — recon plan

Different pattern from social. News content lives in the HTML article body (not a social GraphQL API), so here readability extraction wins — API-first does NOT apply. The two real gates are (1) the CMP consent wall and (2) the paywall/subscriber session. Worked example: lemonde.fr (probed live).

The two gates

1. CMP consent wall (EU sites — the FIRST blocker) ✅ handled live

Validated on lemonde.fr: the accept button is "Accepter et continuer" — snapshot → click it → hasConsent flips false → true (euconsent/didomi cookie set), wall cleared for the session. (Other labels below for other CMPs.)

Le Monde shows a full GDPR consent wall before content: "L'accès gratuit au site … subordonné à votre consentement" with button "Gestion des cookies", "À quoi servent les cookies ?", and accept/subscribe choices. Until handled, content + scraping are blocked.

  • Handle it: take_snapshot → find the accept button (labels vary: "Accepter et fermer" / "Tout accepter" / "J'accepte" / "Continuer sans accepter" / sometimes only "S'abonner" as the consent-choice) → click it.
  • Persists a consent cookie (euconsent-v2 / didomi_token / sp_*) → no re-prompt that session. (Observed pre-consent cookies: atauthority, pa_privacy, _pctx, lmd_pa; hasConsent:false until accepted.)
  • CMP vendors are reused across sites: Didomi (lemonde, many FR), Sourcepoint (sp_), OneTrust (#onetrust-accept-btn-handler), Quantcast/TCF. Recognize the vendor → known accept selector.

2. Paywall / subscriber session

Full articles need a logged-in subscriber cookie. Not logged in → only free/ metered articles + "Article réservé aux abonnés". With the user's subscriber session in the cloned profile, full text renders. (Le Monde here: NOT subscribed → exclusive content gated.) See the cookies section in the browser skill for injecting a synced subscriber session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 84 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 654f36a276ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

news-media is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentproto/ts (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,039 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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