coverage-check

coverage-check is a skill for Claude Code from SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A news-research tool that counts independent sources behind a claim, rather than simply counting article links. It uses GDELT, a database of global news coverage, and groups reprints or wire stories together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during fact-checking to search news coverage, identify likely syndication bursts, and estimate how many separate origins support a claim.
Why use it?
Many articles may repeat one press release or news-agency report, making a claim look better supported than it is. This helps distinguish independent reporting from copied coverage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bullshit-detector plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it during fact-checking to search news coverage, identify likely syndication bursts, and estimate how many separate origins support a claim.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/coverage-check
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 SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector --skill coverage-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bullshit-detector, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for coverage-check

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for coverage-check

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00075 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00141

Measured 12d ago against content hash ba627e5b3c10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coverage-check 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/coverage.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ingestion/coverage-check/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

coverage-check

Ten URLs are not ten sources. This turns "lots of outlets reported it" into a number you can defend.

When to reach for it

During claim verification, when a claim looks corroborated by volume — a pile of search results all saying the same thing. That pattern has two very different causes:

  • Many newsrooms independently established the fact → genuinely strong evidence
  • One press release, wire story, or study got reprinted 40 times → one source

Search results look identical in both cases. This tells them apart.

Usage

uv run scripts/coverage.py "<query>" [--timespan 3m] [--max 250] [--sort dateasc] [--timeout 120] [--json]

It is slow. This is normal. GDELT takes ~15s for a trivial one-day query and considerably longer for a 3-month window at 250 records. The script prints progress to stderr and how long the call took, so you can tell "working" from "hung" — if you see the querying line, wait. Narrowing --timespan is the speed lever; raise --timeout before assuming it's broken.

The query accepts GDELT operators: "exact phrase", (a OR b), -exclude, domain:example.com, sourcelang:english. Quote the distinctive phrasing of the claim — a verbatim phrase is what catches reprints.

# Is this "40 outlets confirmed it" or one wire story?
uv run scripts/coverage.py '"quantum breakthrough" AND university'

# Narrow to the week the claim surfaced
uv run scripts/coverage.py '"record quarterly revenue" domain:reuters.com' --timespan 7d

Reading the output

The first line is the verdict the detector needs. The rest supports it.

  • Distinct story clusters — articles grouped by headline similarity. This is the origin estimate. Outlets ≫ clusters means syndication.
  • ⚠️ syndicated on a cluster — multiple outlets published the same story inside 24h. Treat the whole cluster as one source.
  • wire-attributed headline on a cluster — a headline names a wire service or press-release distributor (Reuters, AP, PR Newswire…). The strongest mechanical one-origin signal available at headline level; bodies would catch more, but GDELT returns none.
  • Duplicate URLs collapsed — the same page counted twice behind tracking params, www., or a trailing slash. Collapsed before anything else is counted, so every number below it is already deduplicated.
  • Span (hours) — a tight burst points at a press release or embargo lift; coverage developed over weeks is more likely independent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

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.

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 · 106 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A ba627e5b3c10

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coverage-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector (142 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.