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 agentmods add skills/ericwang915/pythonclaw/newsnpx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill newsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClawWhat 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 | $0.00059 | $0.00392 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00196 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00078 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00039 |
Grade A, and why
news 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 2d 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.
What it actually says
News Skill
Search for recent news on any topic using web_search (Tavily) or the bundled DuckDuckGo script.
When to Use
✅ USE this skill when:
- "What's happening in the tech industry today?"
- "Latest AI news"
- "News about the 2026 World Cup"
- "Give me a news briefing on climate"
- "Headlines about [topic]"
- User wants recent or current events on any subject
When NOT to Use
❌ DON'T use this skill when:
- Historical news archives → use specialized archive/search tools
- Paywalled articles → web_search may surface snippets only
- Real-time breaking news alerts → use dedicated news APIs or feeds
Usage/Commands
Option A — web_search tool (preferred when Tavily is configured)
web_search(query="latest news about <topic>", topic="news", max_results=10)
Option B — Bundled script (works without Tavily)
python {skill_path}/search_news.py "topic" [--max 10]
Examples
- "What's happening in the tech industry today?" → web_search or
search_news.py "tech industry" - "Give me the latest AI news" → web_search or
search_news.py "AI artificial intelligence"
Notes
- Tavily (web_search) is preferred when configured in pythonclaw.json
- search_news.py uses DuckDuckGo and requires no API key
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 1cec2b0ad78b
news is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (41 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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