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.
npx skills add davidtoby/agent-skills --skill google-news-rss-digestinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidtoby/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/google-news-rss-digesting)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/google-news-rss-digesting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/google-news-rss-digesting/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/google-news-rss-digesting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/google-news-rss-digesting.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.02971 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.01486 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00594 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00297 |
Grade A, and why
google-news-rss-digesting 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 6d 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.
- Use Python stdlib (`urllib`, `xml.etree.ElementTree`) to query: How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Google News RSS Digesting
Use this when you need current public news and your preferred search tool is unavailable, rate-limited, or blocked by anti-bot measures.
When to use
- Brave/Tavily/browser search is failing, returning 429s, or blocked
- You need a fast current-events scan for a digest/newsletter/briefing
- You want broad coverage first, then source-prioritized verification
Core approach
-
Get the live date/time first
- Use
terminal("date '+%F %T %Z'")so the digest date is grounded.
- Use
-
Try primary web search first
- If using the
brave-searchskill, remember:- Run
npm ciin the skill directory if dependencies are missing. - If
./search.jsgivesPermission denied, run it asnode ./search.js ....
- Run
- If search starts returning
HTTP 429, stop hammering it and switch methods.
- If using the
-
Fallback to Google News RSS via
execute_code- Use Python stdlib (
urllib,xml.etree.ElementTree) to query:https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
- Add
when:1dto emphasize the last 24 hours. - Use multiple topic queries instead of one giant query, e.g.:
- AI:
OpenAI OR Anthropic OR Google OR Meta OR xAI when:1d - World:
politics economy security markets when:1d - Livelihood:
housing healthcare transport weather jobs consumer when:1d
- AI:
- Use Python stdlib (
-
Refine with targeted follow-up queries
- After the broad scan, run narrower Reuters/source-specific searches for candidate items.
- Good pattern:
"US pending home sales beat expectations in March Reuters""Trump says Anthropic is shaping up open to deal with Pentagon Reuters"
- If a broad Google News RSS query comes back sparse or empty, switch to source-specific queries such as
site:bbc.com/news technology AI when:1dorsite:bbc.com/news world diplomacy security when:1d. - This improves confidence without browsing dozens of pages.
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Use direct BBC RSS feeds as a practical fallback when search is noisy
- BBC RSS is often easier to fetch reliably than Reuters/AP pages in automated environments.
- Useful feeds:
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xmlhttp://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xmlhttp://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/health/rss.xmlhttp://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xmlhttp://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/rss.xml
- Parse the latest items, then open the article page directly for fact extraction.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 189 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c432d491784d
google-news-rss-digesting is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,971 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 2026-09-03.
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