news-short

news-short is a skill for Claude Code from MelonS/MelonS-Agents. It costs 122 tokens per session (851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for making a 60-second vertical video that recaps a current news event. It researches recent sources, writes an attributed script, and applies checks for freshness, accuracy, and harmful claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a current event or headline into a sourced 9:16 news short for mobile viewing.
Why use it?
It helps produce a short news update without relying on old or weakly supported information. The checks reduce the risk of publishing an inaccurate or defamatory claim.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to turn a current event or headline into a sourced 9:16 news short for mobile viewing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/melons/melons-agents/news-short
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add MelonS/MelonS-Agents --skill news-short
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MelonS/MelonS-Agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin news-short/plugin install news-short after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 851 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
  • 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 $0.00122 $0.00851
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00085

Measured 9d ago against content hash cc15e6c78d7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news-short 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 9d 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.

skills/news-short/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

news-short (뉴스쇼츠)

Turn a current event into a tight, sourced, recency-gated 60-second news recap — with a stricter legal gate than info-short because news carries defamation, accuracy, and freshness risk.

How to invoke

/news-short "<event / headline>"
/news-short "summarize today's <topic> development"
/news-short "<event>" --id=quake0701 --within-days=2

If no event is given, ask. --within-days=N overrides the recency window (default 3).

What runs (the four teams)

Same four-team flow as info-short, with news-profile differences:

  1. 리서치팀 — requires ≥2 independent reputable outlets per claim, stamps recency.newest_source_date, and sets recency.ok=false if the story isn't fresh enough. If recency.ok is false, the director stops and tells you — stale news is not shipped.
  2. 제작팀--profile=news: tighter 120–150-word wire-service recap, every claim attributed ("according to ..."), plus an "As of <date>" disclosure.
  3. 법률팀 ⇄ 제작팀 — the strict gate. Adds, on top of info checks:
    • defamation — no unsourced allegation about a named living person (BLOCK-tier with no fix; otherwise REVISE to soften/attribute/cut).
    • fact-accuracy — every narrated claim must trace to a fact source.
    • required-disclaimer — the As of <date> stamp must be present.
  4. 출시팀 — packages with the freshness note; news should be uploaded the same day it clears.

What it produces

  • outputs/short.mp4 — 1080×1920, ~60s, attributed recap + "As of ".
  • legal/legal-verdict.json — strict gate result + fix list.
  • release/ — upload copy (with the as-of line) + thumbnail + checklist.

What it does NOT do

  • Ship stale news (recency gate) or unsourced allegations (defamation gate).
  • Auto-upload, or write public URLs into the repo.
  • Editorialize — neutral recap only; speculation is a REVISE.

See also

  • docs/content-shorts-pipeline.md — architecture + data contract.
  • Sibling profiles: /info-short (정보쇼츠), /idol-short (아이돌쇼츠).

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A cc15e6c78d7f

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news-short is a skill published in the GitHub repository MelonS/MelonS-Agents (16 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 851 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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