impresso-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

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

impresso-search is a skill for Claude Code from nestordemeure/impresso-mcp. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,694 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A search tool for digitised historical newspapers from Switzerland and Luxembourg, covering 1738 to 2018 in German, French, Luxembourgish, and Italian.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research historical events and people in the Continental European press, retrieve full article transcripts, and filter searches by precision, regular expressions, named entities, or advertisements.
Why use it?
It finds individual newspaper articles with their dates, pages, and nearby matching text instead of making you search whole issues or pages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is nestordemeure/impresso-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on impresso-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 impresso-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nestordemeure/impresso-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/impresso-mcp/main/.claude/skills/impresso-search/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestordemeure/impresso-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,694 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 $0.00075 $0.03694
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01847
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00739
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00369

Measured 12d ago against content hash 505ffa9cf517, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

impresso-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/impresso-search/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

impresso (Swiss and Luxembourgish press)

The digitised press of Switzerland and Luxembourg, with a full-text search at the level of the individual article. The period is 1738 to 2018. The languages are German, French, Luxembourgish and Italian. The corpus holds 141 publications.

This source has four properties that the other sources do not have together:

  • A search gives one article, not one issue and not one page. Each result holds its date, its publication, its page number, its length in words and its keyword-in-context extracts.
  • The full transcript comes to you, also for material that is still in copyright. A test read the full text of an article from 1974. The rights status does not stop the download.
  • The query language is the most powerful in this toolkit. It has a control of the precision, a regular expression filter, a named-entity filter, and a filter for advertisements.
  • The pagination has no limit. A test reached position 499,900 of a result set of 601,658, with no error.

When to use this source

Use impresso for these subjects:

  • the German-language press of Switzerland, above all the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (112,672 issues, 1780 to 1950)
  • the press of Luxembourg, which no other source in this toolkit holds
  • each question that needs the complete text of an article, and not only an extract
  • a subject after 1900, where the other European sources stop or give the metadata only

Read this before you use impresso and Gallica together

impresso holds French national newspapers as well as Swiss and Luxembourgish ones. The list includes the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires (33,610 issues), Le Gaulois (22,340 issues) and Le Petit Parisien (20,282 issues).

Gallica holds these same three titles. Thus a search of both sources finds the same material two times. Do not add the totals of the two sources. When a result comes from one of these French titles, say which source you used, and do not count it again.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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 · 245 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 505ffa9cf517

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impresso-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository nestordemeure/impresso-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,694 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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