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.
npx skills add SearchCans/searchcans-skills --skill searchcans-market-watchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SearchCans/searchcans-skillsWrote 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/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-market-watch)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-market-watch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-market-watch/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/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-market-watch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/searchcans/searchcans-skills/searchcans-market-watch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00070 | $0.00783 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00392 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00157 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00078 |
Grade A, and why
searchcans-market-watch 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
SearchCans Market Watch
Create a traceable market snapshot for one query and one locale. It retrieves Google web results, Google News, and Bing by default, then reads a deliberately small, domain-diverse subset of usable news URLs. It is a run-on-demand snapshot, not a background monitoring service or an alerting system.
Start with market definition
Confirm the query, country, language, the business question, and whether a prior JSON snapshot should be compared. Do not silently choose a market when it changes the answer.
Set SEARCHCANS_API_KEY only in the execution environment. Never put it in a prompt, source file, artifact, or commit.
python scripts/market_watch.py "AI search API" \
--country us --language en --max-source-reads 3 \
--out market-watch.json
Use --without-bing only when a two-surface Google snapshot is sufficient. Use --baseline prior-market-watch.json to report URLs newly observed or no longer observed; that is not a claim that the underlying stories are new, deleted, or unavailable.
Keep the job account-aware
The default --account-mode auto performs one sanitized Account API pre-flight. It estimates the three SERP calls plus the requested Reader calls, caps only the Reader scope when possible, and limits parallel calls to the account's reported lane count.
auto: cap Reader scope to the available budget.enforce: stop before an insufficient job.warn: report a budget warning but preserve scope.off: skip the pre-flight.
The output retains a safe budget summary only. It never writes account identity or key material. Start at --proxy 0; use a higher proxy tier only with a known access reason because it changes the Reader cost estimate.
Interpret evidence correctly
Read google_news.results for headlines and publication metadata, news_source_quality for candidate acceptance/rejection, and read_sources for fuller page evidence. claim_eligible_urls contains only pages whose Reader extraction returned content.
What ships with it
4 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A e749a3bb16c3
searchcans-market-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository SearchCans/searchcans-skills (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 783 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 2026-08-31.
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