newsmcp

newsmcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pranciskus/newsmcp. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for getting current world-news events from an online aggregation service. The service groups duplicate reports about the same event, summarizes them, labels topics and locations, and needs no API key or login.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request recent news by time range, topic, or region, then review the grouped summaries, source links, and importance signals.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to compare many repeated articles or summarize them manually. Topic, geography, source-count, and impact information help narrow a briefing to relevant events.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pranciskus/newsmcp/skill
Any agent
npx skills add pranciskus/newsmcp --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pranciskus/newsmcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00194

Measured 5d ago against content hash 61bed2e6e990, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newsmcp scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- curl
packages/skill/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

World News Skill

Get real-time world news from an AI-powered news aggregation service. Stories are clustered into events (deduplicated across multiple sources), summarized, classified by topic, and tagged by geography.

No API key required. No authentication. Just call the API.

Why This Is Different

  • Events, not articles — individual articles are clustered into stories, so you get one summary per story instead of 20 duplicates
  • Pre-summarized — every event has an AI-generated summary, no need to read full articles
  • Classified — 12 topic categories and 100+ geographic regions
  • Importance signalssources_count (how many outlets covered it) and impact_score (AI-assessed significance)
  • Multi-source — each event lists all source articles with titles, URLs, and domains

API Base URL

https://newsmcp.io/v1

Endpoints

1. Get News Events

curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?hours=24&per_page=10&order_by=-sources_count"

Parameters:

Parameter Type Default Description
hours int 24 Time window (1-168, i.e. up to 7 days)
topics string Comma-separated topic slugs (e.g. politics,military)
geo string Comma-separated geo slugs (e.g. europe,united-states)
page int 1 Page number
per_page int 20 Results per page (max 50)
order_by string -sources_count Sort field. Options: sources_count, entries_count, impact_score, first_seen_at, last_seen_at (prefix - for descending)

Response shape:

{
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "uuid",
      "summary": "AI-generated event summary",
      "topics": ["politics", "military"],
      "geo": ["europe", "ukraine"],
      "entries_count": 15,
      "sources_count": 8,
      "first_seen_at": "2026-03-03T10:00:00Z",
      "last_seen_at": "2026-03-03T14:00:00Z",
      "impact_score": 4,
      "entries": [
        {
          "title": "Article headline",
          "url": "https://example.com/article",
          "domain": "example.com",
          "published_at": "2026-03-03T12:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "total": 42,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 10
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 5d ago First seen · 198 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 61bed2e6e990

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newsmcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository pranciskus/newsmcp (42 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.