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 AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack --skill daily-news-digestsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-packWrote 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/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/daily-news-digests)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/daily-news-digests"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/daily-news-digests/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/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/daily-news-digests"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/daily-news-digests.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 | $0.01201 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00600 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00240 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00120 |
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.
This is a copy
100% identical to daily-news-digests — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
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:
- A deterministic script under
~/scripts/or an explicitly requested project folder. - A dated Markdown output directory under the relevant vault area.
- A
latest.mdcopy for quick viewing. - A scheduler:
- macOS local/background:
launchdLaunchAgent. - Hermes/gateway-delivered work: Hermes cron only when delivery or LLM reasoning is needed.
- A verified test run with real output, logs, and exit status.
Source selection pattern
Prefer primary or near-primary feeds before broad web search:
- Official GitHub repo:
- releases
- issues
- pull requests
- commits
- GitHub search
- Atom feeds for releases/commits
- Official docs/blog/release notes RSS or sitemap if available.
- X/Twitter via
xurlwhen installed and authenticated. - Reddit public JSON search for relevant subreddits and global mentions.
- Hacker News Algolia search.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Run syntax validation:
- Python:
python3 -m py_compile <script>.
- Run the script manually and verify:
- Exit code is 0.
- Dated Markdown file exists and is non-empty.
latest.mdexists and is non-empty.- Output includes real collected item counts.
- Schedule it.
- Kickstart/run the scheduled job once and verify scheduler logs.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 149 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a998a265e89a
daily-news-digests is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack (56 stars, last pushed 27d 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. It is 100% identical to daily-news-digests, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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