rss

A command-line tool for reading RSS and Atom feeds, which are standard subscription formats for news and article updates. It can also read SEC EDGAR JSON data from the US securities regulator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather news, articles, or selected SEC filings for reports and scheduled tasks.
Why use it?
It collects recent updates from configured sources in a consistent format and can filter them by age or keywords. It avoids trying to parse ordinary web pages, which this tool does not support.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aksika/abtars/rss
Any agent
npx skills add aksika/abtars --skill rss
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aksika/abtars

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 360 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3489f25f3af4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rss 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.

templates/skills/rss/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

RSS Feed Fetcher

Usage

abtars-rss --feeds <path-to-feeds.json> [--hours N]
  • --feeds (required): path to a JSON file containing feed configs
  • --hours (optional, default 24): only include items from the last N hours

Feeds file format

[
  { "url": "https://example.com/rss", "name": "Example Feed" },
  { "url": "https://other.com/atom.xml", "name": "Other Feed", "keywords": ["AI", "finance"] }
]
  • url: RSS/Atom feed URL (or SEC EDGAR JSON endpoint)
  • name: display name for the source
  • keywords (optional): only keep items matching these keywords

Output

Writes to ~/.abtars/workspace/rss/<feedname>/<date>.json and prints JSON to stdout.

Task integration

Place your feeds file alongside your task with the _feeds.json suffix:

tasks/
  daily-ai-report.md
  daily-ai-report_feeds.json    ← auto-injected into task context

In your task .md, instruct: "Run abtars-rss --feeds tasks/daily-ai-report_feeds.json"

Do not

  • Do not hardcode feed URLs in task instructions — put them in the _feeds.json file
  • Do not parse HTML pages with this tool — it only handles RSS/Atom XML and SEC EDGAR JSON
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. 3d ago First seen · 52 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 3489f25f3af4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rss is a skill published in the GitHub repository aksika/abtars (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 360 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.