ai-news-skill

ai-news-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frankzch/ai-news-skill. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,046 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for collecting recent artificial-intelligence and machine-learning news, open-source projects, and discussions from more than 100 selected sources. AI KOLs, or key opinion leaders, are also included.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch a general briefing or filter results by topic, source, time range, item count, links, summaries, or language.
Why use it?
It saves you from checking many news sites, code-hosting sites, forums, and social networks separately when you need a current AI briefing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to fetch a general briefing or filter results by topic, source, time range, item count, links, summaries, or language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankzch/ai-news-skill/ai-news-skill
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 frankzch/ai-news-skill --skill ai-news-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankzch/ai-news-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,046 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 $0.00076 $0.01046
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00523
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 12d ago against content hash 33fbf8dc8361, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-news-skill 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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Intelligence Skill

When to use this skill

Use when the user wants to:

  • Get the latest AI/ML news and announcements
  • Browse trending open-source AI projects from GitHub
  • Read AI discussion highlights from Reddit, X (Twitter), HackerNews
  • See what AI KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) are saying
  • Get a comprehensive daily AI briefing

Workflow

Default: Fetch latest AI briefing

Run the fetcher script from the skill directory:

uv run scripts/pulse_fetcher.py

If uv is not available, install dependencies manually and use:

pip install requests pyyaml
python scripts/pulse_fetcher.py

Filtered fetch

Map the user's intent to CLI flags:

User says Flags
"Only Reddit discussions" --include-categories discussion --include-sources reddit
"Open source, no Github" --include-categories opensource --exclude-sources github
"50 items, past 48 hours" --limit 50 --hours 48
"Show full summaries with links" --show-long-summary true --show-link true
"AI news in Chinese" --include-categories news --language zh

Available options

Run uv run scripts/pulse_fetcher.py --help for the full list. Key flags:

  • --include-categories "cat1,cat2" — Only fetch these categories: news, opensource, discussion, kol
  • --exclude-categories "cat1,cat2" — Skip these categories
  • --include-sources "src1,src2" — Only from these sources
  • --exclude-sources "src1,src2" — Skip these sources
  • --hours INT — Time window in hours (default: 24)
  • --limit INT — Max items to request. The server clamps to the tier cap (guest=3 / free=6 / member=100); anything larger is silently truncated.
  • --language en|zh — Output language (default: auto-detect from system locale)
  • --show-short-summary true|false — Show short summary (default: true)
  • --show-long-summary true|false — Show long summary (default: false)
  • --show-link true|false — Show article URLs (default: false)
  • --output-file FILE — Export full JSON to file (default: pulse_output.json). Pass empty string to disable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 33fbf8dc8361

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ai-news-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankzch/ai-news-skill (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,046 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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