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 rss-news-fetchergit 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/rss-news-fetcher)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/rss-news-fetcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/rss-news-fetcher/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/rss-news-fetcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/rss-news-fetcher.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 | $0.00038 | $0.01644 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00822 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00329 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00164 |
Grade C, and why
rss-news-fetcher scanned grade C with 2 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
Fetch recent news from multiple categories (Tech, World, Society) via RSS feeds. Designed for environments where terminal has security restrictions on `curl | python` pipes. Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Fetch recent news from multiple categories (Tech, World, Society) via RSS feeds. Designed for environments where terminal has security restrictions on `curl | python` pipes. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
RSS News Fetcher — Cron Job Edition
Fetch recent news from multiple categories (Tech, World, Society) via RSS feeds. Designed for environments where terminal has security restrictions on curl | python pipes.
Trigger
Use when you need to compile a daily news digest or evening briefing from live RSS sources and cannot rely on web browsing or paid APIs.
Approach
Step 1 — Identify Working RSS Sources
Not all RSS feeds are equally accessible in all environments. Test in this order:
| Source | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BBC News Technology | https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml |
Reliable, 24hr coverage |
| BBC News World | https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml |
Broad international |
| BBC News Asia | https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/asia/rss.xml |
Good China/Asia focus |
| BBC News (main) | https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml |
General + breaking, most current |
| The Guardian Technology | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/rss |
Tech depth, UK/EU angle |
| The Guardian World | https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss |
Broader world coverage |
| The Guardian US | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/rss |
US domestic + policy |
| SCMP (Tech) | https://www.scmp.com/rss/91/feed |
China/Asia commercial lens |
| SCMP (General) | https://www.scmp.com/rss/4/feed |
China diplomacy, economy |
| NPR | https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml |
US society, politics, tech policy |
| TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ |
Startup/VC/tech industry, links in RSS items |
| CNBC Tech | https://search.cnbc.com/rs/search/combinedcms/view.xml?partnerId=wrss01&id=19854910 |
Finance+tech, good for OpenAI/business stories |
| NYT World | https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml |
In-depth international, great descriptions |
| WSJ Tech | https://feeds.a.dj.com/rss/RSSWSJD.xml |
Premium tech/business, paywall-aware |
Known failures in restricted environments:
- Reuters: SSL EOF errors from this toolchain
- AP News RSS Bridge: unreliable
- Google News RSS: returns aggregator redirects, not canonical URLs
- Financial Times: paywalled/spotty
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 129 lines · 38 tokens per session scan C 02015137fb53
rss-news-fetcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,644 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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