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news-api-currents

news-api-currents is a skill for Codex from currentslab/news-api-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (387 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding Currents News API data, such as latest articles or search results, to a product through a secure backend service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building a server-side proxy for news feeds or news search while protecting credentials and normalizing responses.
Why use it?
It keeps the owner’s API key out of client applications and covers request validation, quotas, caching, dates, retries, and error handling.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

not rated 4repo 1mo ago A scan 37 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when building a server-side proxy for news feeds or news search while protecting credentials and normalizing responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/currentslab/news-api-skills/news-api-currents
View source ↗ currentslab/news-api-skills currentsapi.services
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 currentslab/news-api-skills --skill news-api-currents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/currentslab/news-api-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 387 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00037 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00039

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8b3dac146b21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news-api-currents scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Using default Python urllib User-Agent can trigger Cloudflare/WAF block (`403`, error `1010`).
targets/agentskills/news-api-currents/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Currents Owner Interface (Portable)

Trigger

Use when a user asks to expose Currents data to end users while keeping owner credentials private.

Requirements

  • Backend service with outbound internet
  • Runtime env var: CURRENTS_API_KEY

Need an API key?

If you do not have a Currents API key yet, register here:

Steps

  1. Accept user request at your backend only.
  2. Validate and allowlist request params.
  3. Call:
    • https://api.currentsapi.services/v2/latest-news
    • https://api.currentsapi.services/v2/search
  4. Authenticate with a bearer Authorization header sourced from the environment.
  5. Enforce request quotas + caching.
  6. Return normalized response schema and error mapping.

Date filtering (UTC+0)

  • Send start_date / end_date in RFC3339/ISO-8601 format.
  • Convert user-local times to UTC (Z) before requesting.
  • Treat returned published timestamps as UTC (+0000).
  • Use half-open windows (>= start, < end) to avoid boundary duplicates.

Pitfalls

  • Exposing owner key in client apps.
  • No param validation.
  • Missing retries/backoff on 5xx or 429.
  • Using default Python urllib User-Agent can trigger Cloudflare/WAF block (403, error 1010).

Verification

  • Key absent from client-side artifacts.
  • Bounded page size and validated filters.
  • Audit logs redact secret values.
  • Backend requests send explicit browser/curl-like User-Agent.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 47 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8b3dac146b21

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news-api-currents is a skill published in the GitHub repository currentslab/news-api-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 387 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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