blogwatcher

blogwatcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,426 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of blogwatcher, MIT.

A command-line monitor for blogs and RSS or Atom feeds, which are machine-readable lists of new articles. It can discover feeds, fall back to scraping web pages, import OPML feed lists, and track read status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or discover feeds, check for new articles, import an OPML list, and mark articles as read or unread.
Why use it?
It gathers updates from multiple blogs in one place, so new posts do not have to be checked manually. Read and unread tracking helps keep up with ongoing sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to add or discover feeds, check for new articles, import an OPML list, and mark articles as read or unread.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher
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 nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel --skill blogwatcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel

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 blogwatcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for blogwatcher

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/blogwatcher.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00018 $0.01426
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00143

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2fa4ea3866b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blogwatcher scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Binary (Linux amd64):** `curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli`
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to blogwatcher — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/research/blogwatcher/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blogwatcher

Track blog and RSS/Atom feed updates with the blogwatcher-cli tool. Supports automatic feed discovery, HTML scraping fallback, OPML import, and read/unread article management.

Installation

Pick one method:

  • Go: go install github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/cmd/blogwatcher-cli@latest
  • Docker: docker run --rm -v blogwatcher-cli:/data ghcr.io/julientant/blogwatcher-cli
  • Binary (Linux amd64): curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli
  • Binary (Linux arm64): curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli
  • Binary (macOS Apple Silicon): curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli
  • Binary (macOS Intel): curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli

All releases: https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases

Docker with persistent storage

By default the database lives at ~/.blogwatcher-cli/blogwatcher-cli.db. In Docker this is lost on container restart. Use BLOGWATCHER_DB or a volume mount to persist it:

# Named volume (simplest)
docker run --rm -v blogwatcher-cli:/data -e BLOGWATCHER_DB=/data/blogwatcher-cli.db ghcr.io/julientant/blogwatcher-cli scan

# Host bind mount
docker run --rm -v /path/on/host:/data -e BLOGWATCHER_DB=/data/blogwatcher-cli.db ghcr.io/julientant/blogwatcher-cli scan

Migrating from the original blogwatcher

If upgrading from Hyaxia/blogwatcher, move your database:

mv ~/.blogwatcher/blogwatcher.db ~/.blogwatcher-cli/blogwatcher-cli.db

The binary name changed from blogwatcher to blogwatcher-cli.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 8d ago First seen · 137 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 2fa4ea3866b1

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blogwatcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel (196 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,426 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 94% identical to blogwatcher, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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