Ai Daily
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This skill appears to do what it says—fetch public AI news from smol.ai—though it uses a local Python helper, internet access, and unpinned Python packages.
This looks reasonable for a simple AI-news skill. Before installing, be comfortable with it contacting smol.ai and with manually installing the listed Python packages; if generating HTML, treat fetched RSS content as untrusted and avoid blindly embedding active markup.
Findings (3)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
Installing unpinned packages can pull whatever current versions are available from the package index.
The skill asks for third-party Python packages to be installed manually without pinned versions or a lockfile in the supplied artifacts. This is common for a small RSS helper, but users should notice the dependency provenance.
**Requirements**: `pip install feedparser requests`
Install dependencies in an isolated environment when possible and review or pin package versions if reproducibility matters.
Using the skill contacts smol.ai to retrieve public news content.
The helper makes an external network request, but it is to a fixed RSS URL that directly matches the skill's stated purpose.
RSS_URL = "https://news.smol.ai/rss.xml" ... response = requests.get(RSS_URL, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
Use the skill only when internet access to smol.ai is acceptable for the task.
If the RSS content contained misleading text or markup, it could affect summaries or generated pages if copied or trusted too directly.
The helper imports and de-escapes external RSS entry content for downstream summarization or display. This is expected for a news skill, but the fetched content should not be treated as trusted instructions.
content["content"] = entry.content[0].get('value', '') ... content["content"] = content["content"].replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>').replace('&', '&')Treat RSS entries as untrusted content, summarize them as data, and escape or sanitize markup when generating HTML.