Daily News Short

Generate a daily news short on a topic Revid researches itself. Use for a recurring "news of the day in <niche>" channel — the user only supplies the topic;...

Security Scan

The skill's requests and instructions align with its stated purpose: it only needs a Revid API key and calls Revid endpoints to fetch news and render videos.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description describe fetching live news and rendering shorts; the skill only requests REVID_API_KEY and calls www.revid.ai endpoints, which is appropriate and expected.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and examples instruct only Revid API calls (/render, /status, optional /publish-now). No unrelated file access or external endpoints are present. Note: the example shell script uses curl and jq but the registry metadata does not list required binaries — the examples will fail if those tools are not available.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and a small example script; nothing is downloaded or written by an installer.

Credentials

Only REVID_API_KEY is required (declared in SKILL.md). No unrelated credentials or broad environment access are requested.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false, skill is user-invocable and does not request persistent or cross-skill configuration changes.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent: it needs only your Revid API key and uses Revid endpoints to fetch news and render videos. Before installing, confirm you trust the Revid account associated with the API key and limit the key's permissions where possible. Be aware examples require curl and jq (install them or adapt the script). If you use automated publishing (/publish-now), make sure only intended social accounts are connected in Revid. Monitor usage (API calls/costs) and verify generated content for accuracy, copyright, and suitability for automated posting.

Topic / niche → daily news short

Recurring use case: feed a topic ("AI tools this week", "F1 race results", "crypto headlines") and let Revid fetch live news, summarize it, and produce a short. This is the right skill for automated daily channels.

When to use this skill

• The user wants a recurring daily short on a topic — they don't have a specific URL.
• They are happy with whatever Revid surfaces from the news for that topic.
• For a known article URL use revid-article-to-short.
• For a custom angle / angle the news doesn't cover use revid-prompt-to-video.

Inputs

Field	Required	Notes
prompt	yes	The topic / niche
aspectRatio	no	Default 9:16
targetDuration	no	Default 45 (s)
Cron / scheduling	external	This skill renders one video; loop externally for daily delivery.

Step-by-step

1. Build the payload (note: options.fetchNews: true is the magic switch).
2. POST /render.
3. Poll /status.
4. For a daily channel, schedule this in cron / GitHub Actions / Vercel Cron and post the resulting videoUrl to the target social account. Use POST /api/public/v3/publish-now if your Revid account has the relevant socials connected.

API call template

POST /api/public/v3/render
Host: www.revid.ai
Content-Type: application/json
key: $REVID_API_KEY

{
  "workflow": "article-to-video",
  "source": {
    "prompt": "{TOPIC_OR_NICHE}"
  },
  "aspectRatio": "9:16",
  "voice":    { "enabled": true, "stability": 0.6, "speed": 1.0, "language": "en-US" },
  "captions": { "enabled": true, "position": "middle", "autoCrop": true },
  "music":    { "enabled": true, "syncWith": "beats", "trackName": "news-upbeat" },
  "media": {
    "type": "stock-video",
    "density": "medium",
    "animation": "soft",
    "quality": "pro",
    "videoModel": "pro",
    "imageModel": "good"
  },
  "options": {
    "fetchNews": true,
    "targetDuration": 45,
    "summarizationPreference": "summarize",
    "soundEffects": true,
    "hasToGenerateCover": true,
    "coverTextType": "headline"
  },
  "render": { "resolution": "1080p", "frameRate": 30 }
}

options.fetchNews: true tells Revid to crawl fresh news for the prompt instead of using the prompt as the script directly.

Daily automation example

# crontab — every day at 06:00
0 6 * * *  /opt/revid/daily-news.sh "AI tools this week"

# daily-news.sh
TOPIC="${1:?topic required}"
PID=$(curl -fsS https://www.revid.ai/api/public/v3/render \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "key: $REVID_API_KEY" \
  -d "$(jq -n --arg p "$TOPIC" '{
    workflow:"article-to-video",
    source:{prompt:$p},
    aspectRatio:"9:16",
    voice:{enabled:true,stability:0.6},
    captions:{enabled:true},
    music:{enabled:true,syncWith:"beats"},
    media:{type:"stock-video",density:"medium",quality:"pro",videoModel:"pro"},
    options:{fetchNews:true,targetDuration:45,summarizationPreference:"summarize",hasToGenerateCover:true},
    render:{resolution:"1080p"}
  }')" | jq -r .pid)
# poll → publish via /publish-now or download the videoUrl …

Examples

• examples/ai-tools-news.json
• examples/run.sh

Failure modes

Symptom	Fix
News for niche topic is sparse / off-topic	Make the prompt more specific (e.g. "AI coding tools released this week") and consider switching to revid-article-to-short with a hand-picked URL.
Same news repeats day-over-day	Track pid history client-side and add a date phrase to the prompt: "AI tools — week of 2026-04-26".
Tone too neutral / dry for the niche	Add voice.voiceId matching a known persona, and pass source.stylePrompt: "Punchy, opinionated, end with a take."

See also

• revid-article-to-short for known URLs.
• revid-prompt-to-video for ideas Revid shouldn't research live.