news

news is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KdaiP/EchoBot. It costs 122 tokens per session (936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A news-fetching skill that collects recent headlines from selected Chinese and international sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve and present headlines for general, political, financial, social, international, technology, sports, or entertainment news.
Why use it?
It helps when you need current news rather than information that may have become outdated.

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/kdaip/echobot/news
Any agent
npx skills add KdaiP/EchoBot --skill news
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KdaiP/EchoBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for news

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kdaip/echobot/news.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kdaip/echobot/news)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kdaip/echobot/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kdaip/echobot/news.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 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 $0.00122 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash dc6cc51843d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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.

echobot/skills/news/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

News

Fetch and present the latest headlines using the fetch_web_page tool.

Categories and Sources

Category Primary
综合 / General 新华网 https://www.xinhuanet.com/
政治 / Politics 人民网·中共新闻网 https://cpc.people.com.cn/
财经 / Finance 中国经济网 http://www.ce.cn/
社会 / Society 中国新闻网·社会 https://www.chinanews.com/society/
国际 / World CGTN https://www.cgtn.com/
科技 / Tech 科技日报 https://www.stdaily.com/
体育 / Sports CCTV体育 https://sports.cctv.com/
娱乐 / Entertainment 新浪娱乐 https://ent.sina.com.cn/

Workflow

1. Identify what the user wants

  • Single category: fetch that category's URL.
  • Multiple categories: fetch all relevant URLs in parallel (call fetch_web_page multiple times in the same response).
  • No category specified: default to General (新华网) or ask if ambiguous.

2. Fetch the page

Call fetch_web_page with a generous max_chars to capture enough headlines:

{
  "url": "https://36kr.com/",
  "max_chars": 10000
}

Use max_chars between 8000–12000 for news homepages — smaller values cut off too many headlines.

3. Extract headlines

From the returned text, look for repeating patterns: headline titles, brief descriptions, timestamps. Most Chinese news sites return plain-text content with clear headline structures after HTML is stripped.

Focus on:

  • The headline (title of the story)
  • A one or two sentence summary (from the teaser or first paragraph)
  • The date/time if visible in the text
  • The source name

4. Present results

Format your reply like this (adapt to Chinese or English based on the user's language):

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 5d ago First seen · 103 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A dc6cc51843d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

news is a skill published in the GitHub repository KdaiP/EchoBot (629 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 936 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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