NewsBlur is a personal RSS news reader and social network that displays stories, the original sites they come from, and tools for filtering and discussing them. Readers use it to follow subscriptions, train story preferences, search and tag articles, share reading, and optionally self-host the service. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, instructions, hooks, and settings for working with the NewsBlur project.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to samuelclay/NewsBlur. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/main/.agents/skills/newsblur-cli/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlurWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelclay/newsblur/newsblur-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelclay/newsblur/newsblur-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samuelclay/newsblur/newsblur-cli/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelclay/newsblur/newsblur-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samuelclay/newsblur/newsblur-cli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00067 | $0.01263 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00632 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00253 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00126 |
Grade A, and why
newsblur-cli 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
NewsBlur CLI
The NewsBlur CLI (newsblur-cli) gives you full access to your NewsBlur account from the terminal. Install it and authenticate before running any commands.
Setup
uv pip install newsblur-cli
newsblur auth login
auth login opens a browser for OAuth authorization. The token is stored at ~/.config/newsblur/.
For self-hosted instances, pass --server or set NEWSBLUR_SERVER:
newsblur --server https://my-newsblur.example.com auth login
Readonly Mode
The CLI has a readonly mode that blocks all write operations (saving, sharing, training, subscribing, marking as read). Useful when handing the CLI to an AI agent.
newsblur auth readonly --on
Check current readonly status:
newsblur auth readonly
Disabling readonly logs you out and requires browser re-authentication. An AI agent cannot silently toggle this off.
newsblur auth readonly --off
# "You have been logged out and must re-authenticate."
newsblur auth login
If you are operating in readonly mode, all write commands will fail with an error. Read commands work normally.
Output Formats
Every command supports these flags:
--json— structured JSON output, pipe tojq--raw— unformatted plain text- Default — human-readable formatted output
Commands
Stories
List unread stories across all feeds:
newsblur stories list
Filter by folder or limit results:
newsblur stories list --folder Tech --limit 5
Full-text search across your archive:
newsblur stories search "machine learning"
View saved/starred stories, optionally filtered by tag:
newsblur stories saved
newsblur stories saved --tag research
Browse stories from rarely-publishing feeds (easy to miss in a busy river):
newsblur stories infrequent
Fetch the original full article text from the source:
newsblur stories original <story_hash>
View stories you've already read:
newsblur stories read
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 273 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 672999145a4b
newsblur-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository samuelclay/NewsBlur (7,612 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,263 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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