A tool for gathering headlines and article text from several news sources to prepare a news digest. It can cover areas such as politics, business, technology, science, health, entertainment, and sports.

Use it to fetch current headlines and the full text of selected top stories, optionally choosing news categories and Chinese or English output.

It collects source material in one place, so the digest writer does not have to fetch each news source separately.

news — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by octos-org/octos

About the project

Octos is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on a user's computer and can connect to different AI providers, execute code, browse the web, remember information, schedule jobs, and create documents through browser, terminal, and messaging interfaces. The catalogue entries extend or configure this assistant's workflows.

octos-org/octos · 766 stars · on GitHub

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 octos-org/octos --skill news

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/octos-org/octos

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octos-org/octos/news/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/news)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octos-org/octos/news/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octos-org/octos/news.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 1 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 676 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00001	$0.00676
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00270
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00135
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00068

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 850eaf88c282, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news 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 2mo 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.

crates/app-skills/news/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

News Digest Skill

You have a news_fetch tool that fetches raw news headlines and article content from multiple sources (Google News RSS, Hacker News API, Yahoo News, Substack, Medium). Use it to build daily news digests for the user.

How to use

Call the news_fetch tool with the desired categories and language.
The tool returns raw headlines organized by category, plus deep-fetched full article content for the top stories.
You synthesize the raw data into a well-structured news digest. The tool does NOT do any summarization -- that is your job.

Tool parameters

categories (optional, array of strings): Which news categories to fetch. If empty or omitted, all categories are fetched. Available categories:
- politics -- US politics
- world (alias: international) -- International news
- business (alias: commerce) -- Business and finance
- technology (alias: tech) -- Technology
- science -- Science
- entertainment (alias: social) -- Entertainment and society
- health -- Health
- sports -- Sports
language (optional, string): Output language hint, "zh" (Chinese, default) or "en" (English). This tells you what language to write the digest in; the fetched content is always in English.

Example call

{
  "categories": ["tech", "world"],
  "language": "zh"
}

Synthesis instructions

When you receive the raw data from news_fetch, synthesize it into a digest following these rules:

Use the language specified (Chinese by default, English if "en").
Start with a title: # 每日新闻速递 YYYY-MM-DD (or # Daily News Digest YYYY-MM-DD for English).
Group stories by category with clear headers.
For stories that have full article content (in the FULL ARTICLE CONTENT section), write detailed 2-3 sentence summaries.
For headline-only stories, write 1 sentence summaries based on the headline.
Deduplicate stories that appear across multiple sources.
Skip ads, navigation text, and cookie notices from the raw content.
Include 5-10 most important stories per category.
For Hacker News items, prioritize high-score stories.
Use markdown formatting throughout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 71 lines · 1 tokens per session scan A 850eaf88c282

Subscribe to this mod's changes

news is a skill published in the GitHub repository octos-org/octos (766 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1 tokens to every session and 676 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Research

news next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
newsoctos-org/octos	Skill	766	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	1	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	103	Claude Code