using-betterpost

A guide for using BetterPost, a service that finds recent sources and helps write timely content. It is aimed at newsletters, blog posts, and social posts about current events or industry topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting a current, source-backed newsletter, blog post, LinkedIn post, tweet, or Bluesky post.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding up-to-date information and adding source details to content that needs to reflect what is happening now.

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/betterpost/betterpost-plugin/using-betterpost
Any agent
npx skills add betterpost/betterpost-plugin --skill using-betterpost
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/betterpost/betterpost-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 286 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 $0.00053 $0.00286
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured yesterday against content hash 426629947330, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-betterpost 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/using-betterpost/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Using BetterPost

BetterPost is available in this session for writing timely, well-sourced content.

When to reach for it

When the user asks to write or draft a newsletter, blog post, LinkedIn post, tweet, or Bluesky post — especially anything that should reflect what's happening now in their product's space, industry, or audience — use the betterpost skill (invoke it with the Skill tool, or read skills/betterpost/SKILL.md on agents without a Skill tool).

BetterPost finds recent sources across news, social, and the open web, ranks them by relevance, and writes human-sounding content with real citations and publication dates. Free to start — sign in with your BetterPost account for free credits.

When NOT to reach for it

Do not use BetterPost for unrelated coding, research, or non-content tasks. It is specifically for creating written content grounded in current sources. If the user isn't asking for content, ignore this.

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. yesterday First seen · 29 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 426629947330

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-betterpost is a skill published in the GitHub repository betterpost/betterpost-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 286 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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