Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zrtch/awesome-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-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/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-news)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-news/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/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/daily-ai-news.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 | $0.00021 | $0.00608 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00304 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
daily-ai-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 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 — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Daily AI News Skill
This skill helps AI agents fetch and present daily curated AI news from the 60s API, which provides the latest updates on AI, large models, and related technologies.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when users:
- Ask for today's AI news or updates on large language models
- Want a quick daily briefing on artificial intelligence
- Request AI news summaries
- Need historical AI news from a specific date
- Want AI news in different formats (text, JSON, markdown)
How to Use
Execute the associated scripts/news.sh script to fetch the AI news.
./scripts/news.sh [options] [date]
Options
--encoding, -e <format>: Optional. Specifies the output response format. Valid options aretext,json, andmarkdown. The API defaults tojsonif not specified.--date, -d <YYYY-MM-DD>: Optional. Fetch historical AI news for a specific date. If omitted, fetches today's news. Note: If this is the only argument provided, you can omit the--dateflag entirely.
Return Values
The script securely calls the 60s AI news API and outputs the response to stdout. Depending on the encoding parameter, the response could be a JSON string, plain text, or markdown.
Usage Examples
# Get today's AI news using default API encoding (json)
./scripts/news.sh
# Get today's AI news in plain text format
./scripts/news.sh --encoding text
# Get AI news for a specific date using flags
./scripts/news.sh --date 2024-03-01
# Get AI news for a specific date (simplified usage without flags)
./scripts/news.sh 2024-03-01
# Get AI news for a specific date in markdown format
./scripts/news.sh -e markdown -d 2024-03-01
Response Format
To balance information depth with token consumption, you MUST use the following rules for the encoding parameter:
- Default Strategy (
--encoding markdown)- When to use: By default for standard AI news inquiries.
- Why: Provides well-structured, easy-to-read information with moderate token usage.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 70 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A bbcbe6cf05f9
daily-ai-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository zrtch/awesome-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 608 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 2026-08-31.
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