bbc-news

bbc-news is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CraftOS-dev/CraftBot. It costs 63 tokens per session (576 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for fetching BBC News stories from RSS feeds, including world, UK, business, technology, science, health, and regional sections. RSS is a format that publishes updated headlines for other tools to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch top stories or news from a selected BBC section, such as technology, politics, Europe, or health, optionally as JSON.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to retrieve current BBC headlines by section and limit the number of results.

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/craftos-dev/craftbot/bbc-news
Any agent
npx skills add CraftOS-dev/CraftBot --skill bbc-news
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 576 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 $0.00063 $0.00576
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00288
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash 73f5bf4c9f8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bbc-news 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/bbc_news.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/bbc-news/SKILL.md · 101 lines

What it actually says

BBC News

Fetch top stories from BBC News across different sections and regions.

Quick Start

Fetch top stories:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py

Fetch from specific section:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py uk
python3 scripts/bbc_news.py world
python3 scripts/bbc_news.py technology

List all available sections:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py --list

Available Sections

Main Sections

  • top - Top stories (default)
  • uk - UK news
  • world - World news
  • business - Business news
  • politics - Politics
  • health - Health news
  • education - Education
  • science - Science & Environment
  • technology - Technology news
  • entertainment - Entertainment & Arts

UK Regional

  • england - England news
  • scotland - Scotland news
  • wales - Wales news
  • northern-ireland - Northern Ireland news

World Regions

  • africa - Africa news
  • asia - Asia news
  • australia - Australia news
  • europe - Europe news
  • latin-america - Latin America news
  • middle-east - Middle East news
  • us-canada - US & Canada news

Options

Limit number of stories:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py world --limit 5

JSON output:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py technology --json

Examples

Get top 5 UK stories:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py uk --limit 5

Get Scotland news in JSON:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py scotland --json

Get latest technology headlines:

python3 scripts/bbc_news.py technology --limit 3

Dependencies

Requires feedparser:

pip3 install feedparser

Resources

scripts/bbc_news.py

Python CLI that fetches and displays BBC News stories from RSS feeds. Supports all major BBC sections and regions, with text and JSON output formats.

references/feeds.md

Complete list of BBC News RSS feed URLs organized by section and region.

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 73f5bf4c9f8a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bbc-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository CraftOS-dev/CraftBot (376 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 576 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 2026-08-30.

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