Gives Claude direct access to Google News and Google Shopping through Serper APIs at 4 cents per call. You get recent news with time filters (past hour, day, week), country and language targeting, and full product search with prices across merchants. The skill handles the x402 payment flow through agentcash, so Claude can pull headlines on breaking topics or compare prices without you manually hitting APIs. Most useful when you need current information beyond Claude's training cutoff or want to research products without opening browser tabs. The documentation includes actual curl examples and response formats, which helps if you're debugging what Claude is seeing.
npx skills add https://github.com/merit-systems/agentcash-skills --skill news-shopping