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 skills add alberduris/skills --skill newspaper-explainergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alberduris/skillsWrote 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/skills/alberduris/skills/newspaper-explainer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alberduris/skills/newspaper-explainer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alberduris/skills/newspaper-explainer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alberduris/skills/newspaper-explainer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alberduris/skills/newspaper-explainer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.00035 | $0.00489 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00244 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00098 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
newspaper-explainer 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 9d 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
This skill generates single-file HTML pages that present any subject worth explaining as broadsheet newspaper editions. Every page follows ONE fixed aesthetic — the broadsheet — so variation comes from CONTENT (what is being reported, which sections are relevant, what the edition covers), not from visual style or chromatic direction. Read ./templates/broadsheet.html before generating any page; it is the canonical reference for structure, CSS class vocabulary, typographic stack, and palette.
A newspaper page is assembled from structural elements selected based on what the content demands: a) MASTHEAD carrying the publication name, date, volume/issue number, and edition tagline, b) TICKER as a scrolling marquee summarizing the top headlines, c) LEAD STORY occupying the dominant grid position with drop cap, optional floating inset box with progress bar, pull quote between rules, and multi-column continuation text, d) SIDEBAR with bordered status widgets and compact secondary articles, e) SECONDARY STORIES row in a multi-column grid separated by column rules, f) LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE presenting timestamped dialogue in a question-and-response cadence, g) DISPATCH BOARD with classified-ad-style cards for action items, notices, and advisories, h) COLOPHON footer with publication metadata. Include only the sections that serve the content being reported.
[!IMPORTANT]: The palette is MONOCHROMATIC: warm cream paper, near-black ink, color used ONLY in status badges and dot indicators. NEVER EVER introduce gradients, colored section backgrounds, decorative color, or any chromatic element beyond the restrained badge accents defined in the template. Typography is FIXED at four tiers: display serif for masthead and headlines, body serif for article text, system sans for labels and metadata, monospace for inline code references. Do not substitute or rotate fonts across generations.
The output is always a single self-contained HTML file with all CSS inline, no external assets beyond CDN font links. Write to ~/.agent/newspapers/ using a descriptive filename derived from the content. Open the result in the browser and tell the user the file path.
What ships with it
11 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- commands/diff-review.md 1.8 KB
- commands/fact-check.md 1.8 KB
- commands/generate-dispatch.md 1.3 KB
- commands/generate-extra.md 1.2 KB
- commands/generate-plan.md 2.6 KB
- commands/plan-review.md 1.9 KB
- commands/project-recap.md 1.7 KB
- commands/share.md 569 B
- references/css-patterns.md 7.8 KB
- scripts/share.sh 1.9 KB runs code
- templates/broadsheet.html 31 KB
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 17 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A cb6badb5eec6
newspaper-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository alberduris/skills (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 489 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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