sports-news

sports-news is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from machina-sports/sports-skills. It costs 225 tokens per session (1,330 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for finding sports news through RSS and Atom feeds or Google News. RSS and Atom are standard formats that websites use to publish lists of new articles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch recent headlines, search for articles, read news feeds, and filter results by publication date.
Why use it?
It avoids manually checking many sports sites for new stories and supports searches limited by topic and date. It can cover football, transfers, match reports, and other sports.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 218repo +7 4d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 225 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to fetch recent headlines, search for articles, read news feeds, and filter results by publication date.

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

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 225 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,330 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 10 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00225 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00133

Measured 12d ago against content hash 53ff4a970364, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sports-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_params.sh), 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.

skills/sports-news/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sports News

Before writing queries, consult references/api-reference.md for command parameters and references/rss-feeds.md for curated feed URLs.

Quick Start

Prefer the CLI — it avoids Python import path issues:

sports-skills news fetch_items --google_news --query="Arsenal transfer" --limit=5
sports-skills news fetch_feed --url="https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/football/rss.xml"

Python SDK (alternative):

from sports_skills import news

articles = news.fetch_items(google_news=True, query="Arsenal transfer news", limit=10)
feed = news.fetch_feed(url="https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/football/rss.xml")

CRITICAL: Before Any Query

CRITICAL: Before calling any news command, verify:

  • Dates are derived from the system prompt's currentDate — never hardcoded.
  • google_news=True is always paired with a query parameter.
  • sort_by_date=True is set for any "recent" or "latest" query.

Choosing Dates

Derive the current date from the system prompt's date (e.g., currentDate: 2026-02-16 means today is 2026-02-16).

  • "this week": after = today - 7 days
  • "recent" or "latest": after = today - 3 days
  • Specific date range: use as-is

Commands

Command Required Optional Description
fetch_feed url Fetch an RSS/Atom feed by URL
fetch_items google_news, query, url, limit, after, before, sort_by_date Fetch news from Google News or an RSS feed

Workflows

Breaking News Check

  1. fetch_items --google_news --query="<topic>" --limit=5 --sort_by_date=True
  2. Present headlines with source and date.

Topic Deep-Dive

  1. fetch_items --google_news --query="<topic>" --after=<7_days_ago> --sort_by_date=True --limit=10
  2. For curated sources, also try fetch_feed --url="<rss_url>".
  3. Cross-reference both for comprehensive coverage.

Weekly Sports Roundup

  1. For each sport of interest, fetch_items --google_news --query="<sport> results" --after=<7_days_ago> --limit=5.
  2. Aggregate and present by sport.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 225 tokens per session scan A 53ff4a970364

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sports-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository machina-sports/sports-skills (218 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 225 tokens to every session and 1,330 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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