news-digest-generator

news-digest-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joonlab/claude-code-with-github-actions. It costs 14 tokens per session (437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for producing a daily technology-news digest from Hacker News and TechCrunch, two technology news sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect selected stories, write short summaries, assign categories and relevance ratings, save source screenshots, and identify recurring themes.
Why use it?
It gathers headlines and metadata in one place, filters out previously covered stories, and organizes the results by topic and relevance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joonlab/claude-code-with-github-actions/news-digest-generator
Any agent
npx skills add joonlab/claude-code-with-github-actions --skill news-digest-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joonlab/claude-code-with-github-actions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 437 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00437
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash 84ed9d3e55ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news-digest-generator 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_duplicates.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

examples/01-daily-news-digest/.claude/skills/news-digest-generator/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

News Digest Generator

Steps

1. Check for Duplicates

Run the duplicate checker to load previously covered headlines:

python3 .claude/skills/news-digest-generator/scripts/check_duplicates.py output/

This outputs a list of known headlines to avoid.

2. Visit News Sources

Navigate to each configured news source and extract content:

For each source:

  1. Navigate using chrome-devtools
  2. Take a page snapshot to extract structured content
  3. Take a screenshot for archival (save to output/screenshots/)

3. Extract Headlines

From each source, extract:

  • Headline text
  • URL
  • Source name
  • Metadata (points, comments, author, publish time)

Filter out any headlines that match the duplicate list from Step 1.

4. Generate Summary

For each story:

  • Write a 1-2 sentence summary based on the headline and any available context
  • Assign a category (AI, Web, Security, Startups, DevTools, Science, Other)
  • Rate relevance (High / Medium / Low)

5. Analyze Trends

Identify 3-5 themes that appear across multiple stories:

  • Name each trend
  • List the related stories
  • Write a brief analysis paragraph

6. Compose Digest

Read the template from assets/template.md and fill in all sections:

  • Header with date and source count
  • Source summary table
  • Top stories by category
  • Trend analysis
  • Footer

7. Save Output

Write the completed digest to:

output/YYYY-MM-DD-digest.md

Verify the file was written correctly by reading it back.

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 84ed9d3e55ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

news-digest-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository joonlab/claude-code-with-github-actions (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 437 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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