blogwatcher

blogwatcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-open-agent/openagent. It costs 20 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for tracking blogs and RSS or Atom feeds, which are standard ways websites publish updates. It can scan tracked sources and show new articles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add and remove feeds, scan for updates, list articles, and mark individual or all articles as read.
Why use it?
It avoids checking each blog manually and keeps new posts in one list. You can mark articles as read after reviewing them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

OpenAgent is a self-hostable personal AI assistant that combines language models, document-based retrieval, and autonomous agent loops. It lets people connect model providers and their own knowledge bases, then have agents browse the web, run code, use computers, and call MCP-compatible tools.

the-open-agent/openagent · 5,602 stars · on GitHub

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/the-open-agent/openagent/blogwatcher
Any agent
npx skills add the-open-agent/openagent --skill blogwatcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-open-agent/openagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 blogwatcher

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00020 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 5d ago against content hash 33011ee6e0c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blogwatcher 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/blogwatcher/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

blogwatcher

Track blog and RSS/Atom feed updates with the blogwatcher CLI.

Install

  • Go: go install github.com/Hyaxia/blogwatcher/cmd/blogwatcher@latest

Quick start

  • blogwatcher --help

Common commands

  • Add a blog: blogwatcher add "My Blog" https://example.com
  • List blogs: blogwatcher blogs
  • Scan for updates: blogwatcher scan
  • List articles: blogwatcher articles
  • Mark an article read: blogwatcher read 1
  • Mark all articles read: blogwatcher read-all
  • Remove a blog: blogwatcher remove "My Blog"

Example output

$ blogwatcher blogs
Tracked blogs (1):

  xkcd
    URL: https://xkcd.com
$ blogwatcher scan
Scanning 1 blog(s)...

  xkcd
    Source: RSS | Found: 4 | New: 4

Found 4 new article(s) total!

Notes

  • Use blogwatcher <command> --help to discover flags and options.
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 · 70 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 33011ee6e0c3

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blogwatcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-open-agent/openagent (5,602 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.