Agent skill

News

by 9600dev in 9600dev/mmr

Fetch, search, and summarize financial news articles via the local scraper service (~/dev/scraper) at http://127.0.0.1:8089.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install News

skills CLI
$ npx skills add 9600dev/mmr --skill news -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install 9600dev/mmr news --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/9600dev/mmr.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/news .claude/skills/news && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
news
GitHub stars
131
Token cost
~6.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,075 words
Files
6 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Fetch, search, and summarize financial news articles via the local scraper service (~/dev/scraper) at http://127.0.0.1:8089.

  • Works in 6 steps: Calls scrape(url, include_html=True) to… → Parses tags (including lazy-load… → Resolves relative URLs, filters… → …
  • Tasks that involve Web scraping
  • SKILL.md covers When to invoke this skill, Service pre-flight: always…, NewsHelpers — Method Summary and Core patterns, plus 6 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; reaches reuters.com and stockhead.com.au

What it does

News is an agent skill from 9600dev/mmr. Fetch, search, and summarize financial news articles via the local scraper service (~/dev/scraper) at http://127.0.0.1:8089. Handles Cloudflare, paywalls (FT/WSJ/Bloomberg/NYT via archive.ph fallback), and HTML→Markdown extraction. Purpose-built for mmr — includes tickernews() and portfolionews() helpers that compose search+scrape for an mmr portfolio or idea scan.

Its SKILL.md is about 6.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including scripts (for example `reference/FINANCIAL_SOURCES.md`, `reference/api.md` and `reference/fallback-chain.md`).

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Web scraping. It works with Cloudflare. The repository describes itself as: Python based algorithmic trading platform for Interactive Brokers.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Web scraping

Example prompts

  • “/news”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Docker

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Calls scrape(url, include_html=True) to get the cleaned HTML.
  2. Parses tags (including lazy-load variants data-src, data-lazy-src`).
  3. Resolves relative URLs, filters ad/analytics hosts, SVGs, GIFs.
  4. Downloads surviving candidates in parallel via httpx.
  5. Drops anything under min_bytes (most logos/icons/favicons are <5KB).
  6. Wraps remaining bytes as llmvm_lite.llm_types.ImageContent objects.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5ac9b3d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • reuters.com
    • stockhead.com.au

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

News loads about 6.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,075 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~6.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,075 words (~6,088 tokens).

“LLMVM: Use ... blocks to call NewsHelpers methods. All methods are async. Returns are dicts in the mmr convention — check result.get("ok") and report fetcher_source before trusting content.”

— opening of SKILL.md by 9600dev, Custom licence
name
news
metadata.author
mmr
metadata.version
0.1

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (scripts) in skills/news of 9600dev/mmr.

  • SKILL.md
  • reference/FINANCIAL_SOURCES.md
  • reference/api.md
  • reference/fallback-chain.md
  • reference/operations.md
  • scripts/news_helpers.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5ac9b3d

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Questions about News

What does News do?

Fetch, search, and summarize financial news articles via the local scraper service (~/dev/scraper) at http://127.0.0.1:8089. News is an agent skill from 9600dev/mmr.1:8089.

When should I use News?

News fits situations like: tasks that involve Web scraping.

How do I install News in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add 9600dev/mmr --skill news -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/news in 9600dev/mmr) into .claude/skills/news in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install News in Codex?

Run `npx skills add 9600dev/mmr --skill news -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/news in 9600dev/mmr) into .agents/skills/news in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use News in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add 9600dev/mmr --skill news -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/news, .gemini/skills/news, .github/skills/news and .opencode/skills/news in your project.

What does News need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, News needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3; Docker.

Does News access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: reuters.com and stockhead.com.au; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is News safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does News use?

News has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does News use?

About 6.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 24k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to News?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with News: Scrapling (Cedriccmh/claude-code-skill-scrapling, 440 stars), Anti Bot Analyzer (revfactory/harness-100, 1.3k stars), Scrapling (Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes, 546 stars) and Scrapling (archibate/dotfiles-opencode, 107 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains News?

9600dev (a GitHub user) maintains it in 9600dev/mmr, which has 131 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

Source: 9600dev/mmr on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.