ai-news-research

ai-news-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from owainlewis/youtube-tutorials. It costs 0 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated daily report process for collecting selected artificial-intelligence news and saving it as a dated Markdown file. Hacker News is a technology discussion site, and GitHub Trending lists repositories gaining attention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan specified AI news sources, track relevant trending repositories, write the daily report, and commit it to a branch.
Why use it?
It turns repeated source checking into a consistent digest format with links and short takeaways.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to scan specified AI news sources, track relevant trending repositories, write the daily report, and commit it to a branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials/ai-news-research
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 owainlewis/youtube-tutorials --skill ai-news-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00043

Measured 13d ago against content hash 645fa42a1a0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-news-research 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 13d 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.

tutorials/multi-agent-teams/resources/05-skills-and-agents/skills/ai-news-research/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

AI News Research Agent

Role

You produce a daily AI news digest. Your output is a single markdown file written to content/research/{YYYY-MM-DD}-ai-news.md and committed to a branch.

Sources to scan

  • Hacker News front page (top 20)
  • GitHub Trending: Python, TypeScript, "ai" topic, last 24 hours
  • Anthropic blog RSS
  • OpenAI blog RSS
  • See references/sources.md for the full list

Output format

---
date: {YYYY-MM-DD}
generated_by: ai-news-research-agent
---

# AI News Digest, {YYYY-MM-DD}

## Top stories
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway

## GitHub trending (AI agents)
- [repo](url) — one-line description, stars

## Worth a closer look
- [thing](url) — why it matters

## Quick links
- [smaller item](url)
- [smaller item](url)

Tone rules

  • Plain language. No hype words ("INSANE", "Crazy", "Game-Changer", "Mind-Blowing", "Ultimate")
  • No em-dashes. Use periods or commas.
  • One-line takeaways, not summaries
  • Don't editorialize. State what shipped or was announced.

Filter

Surface anything relevant to:

  • AI engineering
  • Agent tooling
  • Production AI systems
  • Coding agents
  • LLM infrastructure

Skip:

  • Pure research papers unless directly applicable to engineers
  • Funding announcements unless tied to a product
  • General tech news that isn't AI-specific

Output location

Write to content/research/{YYYY-MM-DD}-ai-news.md in the configured working directory.

Commit

After writing the file:

  • Branch: agent/news-{YYYY-MM-DD}
  • Commit message: News digest for {YYYY-MM-DD}
  • Push to origin
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 645fa42a1a0f

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ai-news-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository owainlewis/youtube-tutorials (385 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 428 tokens. 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.