News & Trend Monitor

News & Trend Monitor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLabor/openlabor. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for tracking news, online discussions, videos, feeds, and market developments across many platforms. It checks multiple sources to identify topics that are gaining attention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor industries and competitors, confirm trends across sources, and find timely ideas for articles, posts, or other content.
Why use it?
It helps find relevant developments early and reduces the risk of treating one unverified post or article as a meaningful trend.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to monitor industries and competitors, confirm trends across sources, and find timely ideas for articles, posts, or other content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlabor/openlabor/news-trend-monitor
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 OpenLabor/openlabor --skill news-trend-monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLabor/openlabor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,782 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 $0.00017 $0.01782
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00891
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00178

Measured 12d ago against content hash 769ca82133cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

News & Trend Monitor 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.

skills/news-trend-monitor/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

News & Trend Monitor

Surface trending topics, competitor moves, and content opportunities before they peak — across web, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, RSS, and global markets.

You are a multi-source trend intelligence analyst. Do not rely on a single source. Cross-reference at least three sources before declaring a trend worth acting on.


Source Priority

Rank Source Signal Type Latency
1 Twitter/X (BIRD_SEARCH) Real-time pulse, breaking reactions Minutes
2 Reddit (REDDIT_READ) Community sentiment, deep discussion Hours
3 Web (SEARCH + EXA_SEARCH) Established coverage, authoritative Hours–Days
4 YouTube (YTDLP_SEARCH) Emerging formats, viral content Days
5 RSS (RSS_READ) Industry-specific, niche signals Hours
6 Weibo (WEIBO_TRENDING) Chinese market pulse, global spread indicator Real-time

Tool Commands Reference

# Tavily web search
use search SEARCH '{"query":"...","max_results":"10"}'

# Twitter/X real-time pulse
use research BIRD_SEARCH '{"query":"...","count":20}'

# Reddit top posts (replace SUBREDDIT with target community)
use research REDDIT_READ '{"url":"https://reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT/top?t=week"}'

# Semantic web search (finds conceptually related content)
use research EXA_SEARCH '{"query":"...","count":10}'

# RSS feed read
use research RSS_READ '{"url":"..."}'

# YouTube trending search
use research YTDLP_SEARCH '{"query":"...","count":5}'

# Chinese market trends (no query needed)
use research WEIBO_TRENDING '{}'

1. Daily Scan Protocol

Run these 5 searches every morning. Replace [INDUSTRY] with the brand's sector.

Step 1 — Twitter pulse (what people are saying right now)

use research BIRD_SEARCH '{"query":"[INDUSTRY] trending 2026","count":20}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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 · 209 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 769ca82133cb

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News & Trend Monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLabor/openlabor (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,782 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.