follow-builders-cron-digest

follow-builders-cron-digest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidtoby/agent-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,035 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled workflow for sending recurring AI and large-language-model industry digests from public GitHub feeds. GitHub is a service for hosting code and data, and a cron job runs a task automatically at set times.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating daily or weekly updates from public feeds about AI builders, including podcasts, posts, and blogs.
Why use it?
It provides a practical way to schedule the digest without installing the original project's full software setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It is for creating daily or weekly updates from public feeds about AI builders, including podcasts, posts, and blogs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/follow-builders-cron-digest
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 davidtoby/agent-skills --skill follow-builders-cron-digest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidtoby/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,035 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00036 $0.01035
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 8d ago against content hash 43525db21ccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

follow-builders-cron-digest 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 8d 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.

skills/.archive/umbrella-curation-2026-04-29/research/follow-builders-cron-digest/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Follow Builders Cron Digest

Use this when a user wants a recurring AI/LLM industry digest based on the public zarazhangrui/follow-builders project, but you are working inside Hermes/OpenClaw-style tooling and need a practical, low-friction setup.

When to use

  • User asks for a daily/weekly AI builders digest
  • User references https://github.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders
  • You need a scheduled digest without installing repo dependencies locally
  • You want to rely on the repo's public JSON feeds instead of reproducing its full pipeline

Core approach

Instead of cloning/installing the repo immediately, use the project's public raw JSON feeds directly in a Hermes cronjob prompt:

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders/main/feed-podcasts.json
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders/main/feed-x.json
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders/main/feed-blogs.json

This is the fastest path when the user mainly wants the resulting digest, not local ownership of the whole toolchain.

Discovery steps

Before scheduling, inspect the repo enough to confirm the current public interface.

1) Read the README

Use raw GitHub content or a terminal fetch. Confirm:

  • public feeds exist
  • no API keys are required for reading the feeds
  • expected digest scope: podcasts, X/Twitter, blogs

Useful URL:

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders/main/README.md

2) Verify actual file names via GitHub contents API

Do not trust guessed example paths blindly. Use:

  • https://api.github.com/repos/zarazhangrui/follow-builders/contents
  • optionally inspect /examples, /scripts, /prompts

Important finding:

  • README references examples/sample-digest.md
  • a guessed path like examples/digest-sample.md returns 404

So confirm exact filenames from the contents API before hardcoding.

3) Check feed shape

Fetch the feed files and inspect fields such as:

  • generatedAt
  • lookbackHours
  • arrays like podcasts, x, blogs

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 8d ago First seen · 121 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 43525db21ccd

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follow-builders-cron-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,035 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.