A political research skill that uses NewsAPI tools to find and organise reporting about policy, laws, elections, campaigns, coalitions, and international relations.

It helps investigate legislation, regulation, elections, sanctions, unrest, conflicts, and diplomatic developments with cited reports.

It reduces the work of searching many news sources and separating major political events from background coverage.

political — Skill for Claude Code by EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp

Install

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.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add EventRegistry/newsapi-mcp

Claude Code

/plugin install newsapi

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install newsapi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 632 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00632
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00253
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00126
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00063

Measured 22d ago against content hash de2dbf057834, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

political 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.

skills/political/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Political

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/_reporting.md first: it holds the search workflow, kinds, aggregates, filters, citation rules, report skeleton and usage footer.

Usage

/newsapi:political "EU AI Act"

Events first (what happened), articles for stakeholder detail; mentions only for the happenings the taxonomy covers (sanctions, unrest, conflict, regulatory investigations), since elections, votes and legislation have no event type.

Workflow

suggest({type: "concepts", prefix: "<political topic>"}); for a jurisdiction also suggest({type: "locations", prefix})
search({kind: "events", conceptUri, count: 50, sortBy: "date"}), triage, 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})
When the topic involves them: search({kind: "mentions", conceptUri, eventTypeUri: "et/society/legal/economic-sanctions,et/society/civil-unrest,et/society/war-conflict,et/business/regulatory", count: 50, factLevel: "fact"}) for dated incidents
search({kind: "articles", conceptUri, resultType: "conceptAggr"}) to see which parties, agencies and groups dominate the coverage; "sourceAggr" if the user asks about media attention
For stakeholder reactions: search({kind: "articles", conceptUri, count: 100, articleBodyLen: 0, isDuplicateFilter: "skipDuplicates", keyword: "legislation OR regulation OR policy OR vote OR amendment OR coalition OR campaign OR reform OR opposition"}), triage, get_article_details({articleUri: [...], includeFields: "sentiment,concepts"})
Report with the template below

Template

# Political Report: [Topic]
Date / Scope (time window, jurisdiction)

## Summary
## Policy & Legislation
[Government actions, regulatory moves, legislative progress; dated from the events]
## Political Dynamics
[Elections, campaigns, party positioning, coalitions; skip if none]
## Geopolitical Context
[International relations, diplomacy, trade disputes; skip if none]
## Stakeholder Reactions
[Industry, civil society, opposition, allies; ordered by prominence in conceptAggr]

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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.

22d ago Changed · -37 tokens per session de2dbf057834
24d ago First seen · 44 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5dcfdb0d55c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

political 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 632 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.

Research mcp newsapi

political next to 6 skills from other repositories
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politicalEventRegistry/newsapi-mcp	Skill	3	10d ago	MIT	A	0	Claude Code
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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