blogwatcher

blogwatcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 33 tokens per session (434 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for monitoring RSS and Atom feeds, which are standard web feeds that publish updates from blogs and news sites. It checks feeds for new articles and does not require an API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track blogs, news sources, or other content feeds, extract article titles and links, and set up regular checks for new posts.
Why use it?
It saves you from repeatedly visiting each site and checking for updates manually. It can compare new entries with previously seen ones.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to track blogs, news sources, or other content feeds, extract article titles and links, and set up regular checks for new posts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/blogwatcher
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 emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill blogwatcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 434 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.
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 $0.00033 $0.00434
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash b8a167d4ecca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blogwatcher 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 11d 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.

curl -s "https://example.com/feed" | head -100
skills/blogwatcher/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Blog Watcher

Monitor blogs and news sources via RSS/Atom feeds.

When to Use

  • "Check if there's anything new on [blog]"
  • "Monitor this RSS feed for updates"
  • "What's the latest on [tech blog]?"
  • Setting up scheduled blog monitoring

Commands

Fetch an RSS Feed

curl -s "https://example.com/feed" | head -100

Common Feed URL Patterns

Most blogs have feeds at predictable URLs:

  • /feed or /rss or /atom.xml
  • /feed.xml or /index.xml
  • WordPress: /feed/
  • Medium: /feed
  • Substack: /feed

Extract Titles and Links

# Titles
curl -s "https://example.com/feed" | grep -oP '(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)'

# Links
curl -s "https://example.com/feed" | grep -oP '(?<=<link>).*?(?=</link>)'

JSON Feed (if available)

curl -s "https://example.com/feed/json" | jq '.items[:5] | .[] | {title, url, date_published}'

Workflow: Periodic Monitoring

  1. Find the blog's RSS feed URL
  2. Verify it works: curl -s "URL" | head -20
  3. Set up a scheduled task with schedule_task to check periodically
  4. Save last-seen entries to compare on next check

Notes

  • No API key needed
  • Works with any standard RSS 2.0 or Atom feed
  • Some sites block curl — add a User-Agent: curl -s -H "User-Agent: CianaParrot/1.0" "URL"
  • Use schedule_task for periodic monitoring
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. 11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A b8a167d4ecca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

blogwatcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 434 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 2026-08-30.

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