daily-journal-api

daily-journal-api is a skill for Claude Code from daily-journal-tech/daily-journal-agents. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for querying the Daily Journal public news API, which provides current global news in Portuguese with links to the original sources. An API is a service that programs can query for structured data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for current news about politics, business, finance, technology, science, world affairs, sports, or a specific person, topic, or event.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a direct way to find recent coverage without logging in or manually searching many news sites. The results include source links for attribution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the daily-journal plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for current news about politics, business, finance, technology, science, world affairs, sports, or a specific person, topic, or event.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daily-journal-tech/daily-journal-agents/daily-journal-api
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 daily-journal-tech/daily-journal-agents --skill daily-journal-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daily-journal-tech/daily-journal-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install daily-journal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,535 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 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 Prompt Injection · line 39
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 43
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 46
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00080 $0.02535
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01267
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00253

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94e239edff26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daily-journal-api 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

> **This skill is the `curl` route. There is also an MCP server.**
skills/daily-journal-api/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Daily Journal Public API

Free, unauthenticated JSON API. Base URL: https://dailyjournal.news/api/public.

Global news coverage in Portuguese (pt-BR). Responses carry the original outlets (BBC, Financial Times, NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Folha, G1, UOL, CNN Brasil, etc.) with canonical external URLs for attribution.

This skill is the curl route. There is also an MCP server. https://dailyjournal.news/mcp exposes the same data as native tools (search_news, get_news, list_topics, get_topic) with no Bash needed, and works in Claude web and desktop, ChatGPT and Grok as well as Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http daily-journal https://dailyjournal.news/mcp. This skill remains the better fit when the explicit curl belongs in the transcript, when a shell pipeline wraps the API, or where adding a connector is not an option. Running both is redundant, not harmful.

When to use this skill

  • User asks about current events — politics, economy, business, finance, technology, science, world affairs, sports
  • User asks "what's happening with X?" for any topic, person, or event
  • User wants Portuguese-language coverage with cited sources
  • User mentions Daily Journal directly

Skip when the user explicitly wants a different source or a non-news task.

List news

curl -s 'https://dailyjournal.news/api/public/news?limit=10' | jq '.'

Query params (all optional):

Param Type Notes
category enum world, politics, economy, finance, business, technology, science, sports, entertainment, brazil
topic slug e.g. emmanuel-macron, relacoes-eua-canada, stf. Discover slugs from topics[].slug in any response.
date_from YYYY-MM-DD Inclusive
date_to YYYY-MM-DD Inclusive (covers full day in UTC)
search text Full-text over headline/summary/body (prefix match; multi-word ANDs terms)
limit 1–50 Default 20
cursor ISO ts Pass next_cursor from previous response for pagination

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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 · 227 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 94e239edff26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

daily-journal-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository daily-journal-tech/daily-journal-agents (10 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,535 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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