tech-news-digest

tech-news-digest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from draco-agent/tech-news-digest. It costs 71 tokens per session (5,928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for collecting technology news from RSS feeds, Twitter/X, GitHub releases and trending projects, Reddit, and web search, then merging and scoring the results. It can produce digests in formats such as Discord messages, email, or Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create recurring technology-news summaries about selected topics, using configurable sources and topics, and publish the results to supported output formats.
Why use it?
It gathers updates from several sources in one pipeline and removes duplicate items. Retry handling and source-quality scoring help organize the collected news.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: positional $N argument; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to create recurring technology-news summaries about selected topics, using configurable sources and topics, and publish the results to supported output formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/draco-agent/tech-news-digest/tech-news-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 draco-agent/tech-news-digest --skill tech-news-digest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/draco-agent/tech-news-digest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,928 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 $0.00071 $0.05928
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02964
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00593

Measured 12d ago against content hash 18607f155f2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-news-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 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.

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.

SKILL.md · 563 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 563 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech News Digest

Automated tech news digest system with unified data source model, quality scoring pipeline, and template-based output generation.

Quick Start

  1. Configuration Setup: Default configs are in config/defaults/. Copy to workspace for customization:

    mkdir -p workspace/config
    cp config/defaults/sources.json workspace/config/tech-news-digest-sources.json
    cp config/defaults/topics.json workspace/config/tech-news-digest-topics.json
    
  2. Environment Variables:

    • TWITTERAPI_IO_KEY - twitterapi.io API key (optional, preferred)
    • X_BEARER_TOKEN - Twitter/X official API bearer token (optional, fallback)
    • TAVILY_API_KEY - Tavily Search API key, alternative to Brave (optional)
    • WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND - Web search backend: auto|brave|tavily (optional, default: auto)
    • BRAVE_API_KEYS - Brave Search API keys, comma-separated for rotation (optional)
    • BRAVE_API_KEY - Single Brave key fallback (optional)
    • GITHUB_TOKEN - GitHub personal access token (optional, improves rate limits)
  3. Generate Digest:

    # Unified pipeline (recommended) — runs all 6 sources in parallel + merge
    python3 scripts/run-pipeline.py \
      --defaults config/defaults \
      --config workspace/config \
      --hours 48 --freshness pd \
      --archive-dir workspace/archive/tech-news-digest/ \
      --output /tmp/td-merged.json --verbose --force
    
  4. Use Templates: Apply Discord, email, or PDF templates to merged output

Configuration Files

sources.json - Unified Data Sources

{
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "openai-rss",
      "type": "rss",
      "name": "OpenAI Blog",
      "url": "https://openai.com/blog/rss.xml",
      "enabled": true,
      "priority": true,
      "topics": ["llm", "ai-agent"],
      "note": "Official OpenAI updates"
    },
    {
      "id": "sama-twitter",
      "type": "twitter", 
      "name": "Sam Altman",
      "handle": "sama",
      "enabled": true,
      "priority": true,
      "topics": ["llm", "frontier-tech"],
      "note": "OpenAI CEO"
    }
  ]
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 563 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 · 563 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 18607f155f2b

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tech-news-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository draco-agent/tech-news-digest (73 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 5,928 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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