feed-brief

feed-brief is a skill for Claude Code from gtapps/claude-code-hermit. It costs 104 tokens per session (3,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated pipeline that gathers items from configured sources, ranks and filters them, writes a news brief, delivers it, and archives it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scheduled morning, evening, or custom-slot news briefs based on project priorities and source settings.
Why use it?
It turns a collection of feeds into a recurring, organized briefing without manually checking every source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the feed-hermit plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for scheduled morning, evening, or custom-slot news briefs based on project priorities and source settings.

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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 gtapps/claude-code-hermit
Claude Code
/plugin install feed-hermit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feed-hermit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,213 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 $0.00104 $0.03213
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00321

Measured yesterday against content hash 3e29f45d2b45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feed-brief 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/feed-hermit/skills/feed-brief/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feed Brief

Run the full 7-phase brief pipeline for this project. Config lives at the project root (feed-sources.md, feed-categories.md, FEEDS.md); state and archive live under .claude-code-hermit/.

Flags

  • --morning: slot morning. Forward-looking. Emphasize what's new since yesterday evening, what's worth opening today, emerging patterns. Tone: calm, sharp, selective.
  • --evening: slot evening. Backward-looking. Emphasize what changed during the day, what escalated or faded, what to carry into tomorrow. Tone: slightly more reflective.
  • --slot <name>: custom slot label (e.g. midday). Use <name> verbatim wherever <slot> appears below. Orientation defaults to the morning (forward-looking) framing unless the operator's FEEDS.md says otherwise.

Resolve <slot> from the flag before starting. All filenames below use that resolved value.

Steps

  1. Read FEEDS.md — brief philosophy, scoring rules, output format, and section guidance.
  2. Read feed-sources.md — full source list with types and URLs.
  3. Read feed-categories.md — operator's current focus areas and priority tiers (P1/P2).
  4. Read .claude-code-hermit/config.json — the feed.enrichments.* and feed.reaction_feedback gates consulted in Phases 3 and 5b. A gate runs only when its value is true; treat an absent key as disabled.

Phase 1 — Web/RSS sources

Dispatch the @feed-hermit:source-fetcher subagent (model: haiku) to fetch all web and rss sources from feed-sources.md. Pass the full source list (URLs + names), the resolved <slot>, and the absolute project root and output path.

Output-path contract: the agent writes its extracted items to tmp/feed-source-items-<slot>.json in the project root (never /tmp/). Pass <absolute-project-root>/tmp/feed-source-items-<slot>.json to the agent so its inherited working directory cannot redirect the write. Items are nested under sources[], each item: {title, summary, url, published_at, source, section, author}. No scoring — extraction only. After the agent returns, read that file for the collected items.

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. yesterday Changed 3e29f45d2b45
  2. 3d ago First seen · 216 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 9a8be9c377e2

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feed-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtapps/claude-code-hermit (74 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 3,213 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.