anno-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/anno-search/SKILL.md

anno-search is a skill for Claude Code from nestordemeure/anno-mcp. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line search tool for ANNO, the Austrian National Library’s archive of historical newspapers, especially German-language newspapers from Austria and Central Europe.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search newspaper text, narrow results by dates, titles, places, and languages, inspect matching snippets, and retrieve OCR text from specific pages.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to find historical newspaper coverage without manually browsing thousands of scanned issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is nestordemeure/anno-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on anno-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything anno-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nestordemeure/anno-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nestordemeure/anno-mcp/main/.claude/skills/anno-search/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestordemeure/anno-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,804 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.
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 $0.00062 $0.03804
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01902
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00761
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00380

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2e85ae1373a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anno-search 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.

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.

.claude/skills/anno-search/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ANNO

The newspaper archive of the Austrian National Library holds approximately 28 million pages across more than 1,600 titles, from 1735 to the present day. It is almost all German-language, and Vienna is its centre. ANNO can do a full-text search on more than 91% of the holdings (the ÖNB gives this figure itself).

Use it for the German-language press: the Viennese daily papers and the Austro-Hungarian provincial papers, and also the satirical and trade weekly papers. It is the natural counterpart to Gallica. Gallica gives you the French reception of a performer who travelled, and ANNO gives you the Central European reception. For mentalism it is exceptionally strong on the 1880s to the 1930s. Vienna was where the Gedankenleser travelled and performed, and where Erik Jan Hanussen lived, worked and died.

Commands

anno search "<query>" [--pages N|N-M|all] [--sort ORDER] [filters] [--json]
anno snippets <documentId> "<query>"   # which page of an issue, in context
anno get <documentId> [--page N]       # OCR text, prints path to the cached file

The filters for search are --from-year, --to-year, --title ACRONYM, --place PLACE, --language CODE, --subject TEXT and --format {newspaper,periodical}.

--sort takes relevance (default), date_asc or date_desc.

These six filters are all of the facets of ANNO. The search sidebar has exactly six groups, and the client uses each one. There is no --provider flag, no --collection flag and no --genre flag, by decision. ANNO is an archive with one provider (the ÖNB owns all of it) and a flat structure, so those facets do not exist. The client does not omit them. ANNO does not have them.

The publication frequency is also not a facet. It is inside --subject, as Tageszeitung and Wochenzeitung.

A search resolves to an issue, not to a page. A result says this issue of Der Morgen holds 59 matches. snippets changes that into page 7, and here is the sentence. That middle step holds most of the value on this source, and it is usually sufficient to quote in a report with no download:

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 12d ago First seen · 166 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2e85ae1373a5

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anno-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository nestordemeure/anno-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,804 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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