hackernews

hackernews is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mediause/agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,854 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding-agent add-on for working with Hacker News, a site where people share and discuss technology stories. It covers retrieving stories, searching, reading discussion threads, and looking up user profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find stories, search posts, read comment threads, retrieve story lists, and inspect Hacker News user profiles.
Why use it?
It avoids having to handle Hacker News requests and connection setup manually, while providing guidance for authentication and request limits.

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/mediause/agent-skills/hackernews
Any agent
npx skills add mediause/agent-skills --skill hackernews
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mediause/agent-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.

agentmods badge for hackernews

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mediause/agent-skills/hackernews.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mediause/agent-skills/hackernews)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mediause/agent-skills/hackernews"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mediause/agent-skills/hackernews.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,854 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00054 $0.01854
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00927
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00185

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1141e9369bfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hackernews 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 4d 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.

hackernews/SKILL.md · 288 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 288 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 1141e9369bfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hackernews is a skill published in the GitHub repository mediause/agent-skills (9 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,854 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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