Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp/plugin install newsapiWrote 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/eventregistry/newsapi-mcp/news)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eventregistry/newsapi-mcp/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eventregistry/newsapi-mcp/news/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/eventregistry/newsapi-mcp/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eventregistry/newsapi-mcp/news.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 | $0.00000 | $0.01572 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00629 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00314 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00157 |
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 22d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
News research
Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/_reporting.md first: it holds the search workflow, kinds, aggregates, filters, citation rules, report skeleton and usage footer every report must follow.
Usage
/newsapi:news "What's happening with AI regulation?"/newsapi:news— asks for the research question
Pick a pattern
| Question | Pattern |
|---|---|
| "What's happening with X?" | Event overview |
| Needs full text, quotes, detailed coverage | Article deep dive |
| Names a kind of happening ("layoffs in fintech", "recalls by Toyota") | Happenings |
| "How much / who / where / since when" | Numbers |
| Multi-angle question across stakeholders | Research report |
| "What's breaking right now?" (no topic) | Breaking events |
| "What's breaking in <region/topic>?" | Breaking in a topic |
| Topic page URI given | Topic page |
| Simple factual question, few results | Quick lookup |
Event overview
suggest({type: "concepts", prefix: "<topic>"})search({kind: "events", conceptUri, count: 50, sortBy: "date"})- Triage events by title and summary
get_event_details({eventUri: [...], includeFields: "concepts,categories"})- For the 3-5 key events fetch citable article rows (5 tokens each):
get_event_details({eventUri: "<uri>", resultType: "articles", articlesCount: 10}) - Report with the findings template
Article deep dive
suggest→conceptUrisearch({kind: "articles", conceptUri, count: 100, articleBodyLen: 0, isDuplicateFilter: "skipDuplicates"}); narrow with one booleankeywordstring if the concept is broad- Triage
get_article_details({articleUri: [...], includeFields: "sentiment"})- Report with the findings template
Happenings
- Pick the event type from the taxonomy in the shared reference (or
suggest({type: "eventTypes", prefix: "<taxonomy word>"})), andsuggest({type: "concepts", prefix: "<entity>"})if an entity is named search({kind: "mentions", eventTypeUri, conceptUri, count: 50, factLevel: "fact"})- Each row already carries the article link: group the sentences by entity or date and report with the findings template; retrieve full articles only when the user wants detail
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.
- 22d ago Changed · -96 tokens per session e63665ea2c31
- 24d ago First seen · 131 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 72139af7b28f
news is a skill published in the GitHub repository EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,572 tokens. 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 2026-10-14.
news compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| newsEventRegistry/newsapi-mcp | Skill | 3 | 10d ago | MIT | A | 0 | Claude Code |
| the-newsSFKislev/The-News | Skill | 16 | 4mo ago | MIT | A | 31 | Claude Code, Codex |
| the-newsSFKislev/The-News | Skill | 16 | 4mo ago | MIT | A | 31 | Claude Code, Codex |
| syft-news-pipelineSolatrader/syft-news-skills | Skill | 5 | 5mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 89 | Codex |
| syft-cli-assistantSolatrader/syft-news-cli-assistant | Skill | 2 | 5mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 90 | Codex |
| syft-storyline-treeSolatrader/syft-news-skills | Skill | 5 | 5mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 85 | Claude Code, Codex |
| syft-daily-briefingSolatrader/syft-news-skills | Skill | 5 | 5mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 73 | Claude Code, Codex |