daily-news-digests

daily-news-digests is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AtlasOmnia/donna-starter. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,201 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for collecting fresh news and research items from public sources and saving dated Markdown digests locally.

In plain words
What is it for?
Tracking updates from X, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, RSS feeds, release notes, forums, and similar sources.
Why use it?
It turns repeated research into a scheduled monitor with saved results, logs, and a verified run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Tracking updates from X, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, RSS feeds, release notes, forums, and similar sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atlasomnia/donna-starter/daily-news-digests
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 AtlasOmnia/donna-starter --skill daily-news-digests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/donna-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,201 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 87
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 88
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 93
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 104
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 133
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 94
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01201
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00120

Measured 12d ago against content hash a998a265e89a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daily-news-digests 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/research/daily-news-digests/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Daily News Digests

Use this skill when the user asks for a recurring local news/research monitor that pulls fresh items from X/Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, RSS, release notes, forums, or other public sources and saves a Markdown digest locally.

The deliverable is a working collector plus verified scheduling, not a suggestion list.

Default outcome

Create:

  1. A deterministic script under ~/scripts/ or an explicitly requested project folder.
  2. A dated Markdown output directory under the relevant vault area.
  3. A latest.md copy for quick viewing.
  4. A scheduler:
  • macOS local/background: launchd LaunchAgent.
  • Hermes/gateway-delivered work: Hermes cron only when delivery or LLM reasoning is needed.
  1. A verified test run with real output, logs, and exit status.

Source selection pattern

Prefer primary or near-primary feeds before broad web search:

  1. Official GitHub repo:
  • releases
  • issues
  • pull requests
  • commits
  • GitHub search
  • Atom feeds for releases/commits
  1. Official docs/blog/release notes RSS or sitemap if available.
  2. X/Twitter via xurl when installed and authenticated.
  3. Reddit public JSON search for relevant subreddits and global mentions.
  4. Hacker News Algolia search.
  5. Other forums/community sources only if the topic warrants it.

For X/Twitter, do not read or print ~/.xurl. Check only xurl auth status; if auth is unavailable, make the script skip X cleanly and explain how the user can enable it outside the agent session.

Implementation steps

  1. Decide output path based on domain ownership.
  • Assistant/system monitoring: ~/Notes/<Topic>/
  • Personal: ~/Notes/...
  • Work/finance/safety domains: delegate or ask the owning profile if needed.
  1. Write a standalone script with:
  • Configurable window, e.g. HERMES_NEWS_DAYS.
  • Configurable output directory, e.g. HERMES_NEWS_DIR.
  • Configurable max items per source.
  • Per-source exception handling so one failing source does not kill the digest.
  • Deduplication by canonical URL.
  • Markdown grouped by source.
  • A clear note that collection is not verification.
  1. Run syntax validation:
  • Python: python3 -m py_compile <script>.
  1. Run the script manually and verify:
  • Exit code is 0.
  • Dated Markdown file exists and is non-empty.
  • latest.md exists and is non-empty.
  • Output includes real collected item counts.
  1. Schedule it.
  2. Kickstart/run the scheduled job once and verify scheduler logs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 12d ago First seen · 149 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a998a265e89a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

daily-news-digests is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/donna-starter (111 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,201 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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