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 SFKislev/The-News --skill clawhubgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SFKislev/The-NewsWrote 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/sfkislev/the-news/clawhub)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sfkislev/the-news/clawhub"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sfkislev/the-news/clawhub/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/sfkislev/the-news/clawhub"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sfkislev/the-news/clawhub.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 | $0.00031 | $0.00763 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00381 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00153 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00076 |
Grade A, and why
the-news 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 11d 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 — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
This is a global news skill for latest news, breaking news, world news, current events, and news headlines. It gives agents a live multi-source news snapshot and a searchable headline archive across 20 countries via a public API.
This skill gives agents access to the main headlines of many newspapers and news sites, across 20 countries, via a public API.
The API has two modes: a live mode, updated in near real-time, and an archive mode that lets you fetch the headlines from a given moment in time. In both modes, the endpoint returns a JSON response with the main headline for each source, accompanied by AI-generated overviews to help you contextualize the raw output. The API is organized by country. A call for US headlines, for instance, returns headlines from about 40 sources across the ideological spectrum - from New York Times, through Washington Post, to Fox news. Each country is represented by a wide range of voices, and each voice contributes its current main headline. Think of this skill as a constantly updating news stand and a raw headline archive.
When To Use the Skill
'The Hear' gives agents immediate grounding in unfiltered headlines. Its main use is to give you, the agent, access to what is happening now across the globe in an efficient, centralized way, without the context overload of ad hoc browsing. Use the API whenever you need information about breaking news or real-time events, raw data for comparative news analysis, access to global perspectives and narratives, or a reliable micro-historical dataset. The skill gives a timestamped, multi-source snapshot of what different outlets consider their main story. This is different from ad-hoc web fetching, which returns scattered articles rather than a consistent front-page view. Use the skill for fast big-picture orientation.
Multilingual
This skill covers news headlines in many languages: noticias, nouvelles, Nachrichten, notizie, notícias, новости, 新闻, ニュース, أخبار, חדשות, haberler, nieuws, uutiset, wiadomości, новини, समाचार.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 52 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 56dc8b111d0e
the-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository SFKislev/The-News (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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