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 vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter --skill news-toolsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starterWrote 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/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter/news-tools)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter/news-tools"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter/news-tools/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/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter/news-tools"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter/news-tools.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 | $0.00037 | $0.00810 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00405 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00162 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00081 |
Grade A, and why
news-tools 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 — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Overview
news-tools is the AI news skill for the ai-news-tweet app.
It provides the capability to fetch real, current AI news using WebSearch.
- Primary user: the researcher subagent in
ai-news-tweet. - Primary output: structured JSON with AI news items that downstream agents can analyse and rephrase.
When you (Claude) need AI news in this app, you should always use WebSearch to get real news from TODAY ONLY.
CRITICAL: Today's Date Only
ONLY include news published TODAY. Do NOT include articles from yesterday or earlier.
- If the search returns older articles, REJECT them
- Only articles with
published_atmatching today's date are valid - If no news from today is found, say so - do NOT use older articles
How Claude Should Use This Skill
When the user asks for AI news or when you are running inside the ai-news-tweet pipeline:
-
Use WebSearch to get TODAY's news ONLY.
- Search for: "AI news today [current date]" or "AI news [YYYY-MM-DD]"
- Get actual headlines from real sources
- REJECT any articles not published today
- Do NOT use your world knowledge or make up headlines
-
Structure the results as JSON using this EXACT format:
{ "topic": "ai", "items": [ { "title": "Google launches Gemini 3 and Ironwood TPU for AI infrastructure", "summary": "Google unveiled Gemini 3 (requiring less prompting) and Ironwood, 7th gen TPU for scaling massive models", "source": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/27/example-article.html", "published_at": "2025-11-27" } ] } -
Return 3-5 news items from TODAY.
- Focus on the most significant/interesting AI developments
published_atMUST be today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format- Use real URLs from the search
-
IMPORTANT: Output Markers
- If your system prompt specifies output markers (like
<<<researcher>>>...<<<end-researcher>>>), wrap your JSON output in those markers - The markers go OUTSIDE your JSON content
- If your system prompt specifies output markers (like
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 · 90 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c6ec66668262
news-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanzan01/claude-agent-sdk-starter (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 810 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 2026-08-31.
Other skills, from other repositories
pipefy-ai-agents
Use this skill when the user wants to create, read, update, delete, or troubleshoot AI agents (conversational agents with behaviors). Covers 7 MCP tools including pre-flight validation, plus pipe-scoped knowledge bases (list, plain text/document/data lookup CRUD, access probe) attached via dataSourceIds. For…
pipefy-automations
Use this skill when the user wants to create, read, update, or delete traditional automations (if/then rules) or AI automations (prompt-driven). Covers 16 MCP tools. For AI agents (conversational), see skills/ai-agents/.
pipefy-pipes-and-cards
Use this skill when the user wants to read, create, update, or delete pipes, phases, phase fields, labels, cards, comments, or field conditions. Covers 40 MCP tools for the core pipe and card lifecycle. Use the seed-pipe-across-phases workflow when populating empty phases for demos or QA.
pipefy-portal-setup
Use this skill when the user wants to list, create, or configure Pipefy portals (main hub, pages, page elements, sub-portals, publish/unpublish). Covers 20 MCP tools on Interfaces + internalapi. Not for pipes/cards.
huawei-ecs
Use when creating, configuring, managing, or troubleshooting ECS instances on Huawei Cloud. Covers instance creation (hcloud ECS CreateServers), flavor selection, image management, security groups, EIP binding, disk attachment, auto-scaling (AS), and troubleshooting. Triggers on: ECS, instance, flavor, image, security…
huawei-rds
Use when creating, configuring, managing, or troubleshooting RDS instances on Huawei Cloud. Covers MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server. Triggers: RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, database instance, backup, read replica. NOT for: GaussDB (use huawei-gaussdb), DDS (use huawei-dds-dcs).