Tech News Daily

Fetch, summarize and curate the latest tech news from major sources (Hacker News, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, GitHub Trending). Use when the user wants: (1) Daily tech news briefing, (2) Trending topics in AI/developer/news, (3) GitHub trending repos today, (4) Custom tech news digest on specific topics, (5) Save articles to read later.

Get a curated daily briefing of the most important tech news, tailored to your interests.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• "What's happening in tech today?"
• "Show me today's top tech news"
• "Any big AI news this week?"
• "What's trending on GitHub?"
• "Give me a morning tech briefing"
• "Find news about [specific topic/company]"

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Need financial/stock market news → use a finance skill
• Need weather or local news → use a weather skill
• Real-time sports scores → use a sports API

How It Works

The skill fetches from multiple free/public RSS feeds and APIs, then summarizes the results.

News Sources (Free Tier)

Source	Type	Access
Hacker News	Text API	https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/
GitHub Trending	Web scrape	https://github.com/trending
TechCrunch RSS	RSS Feed	https://techcrunch.com/feed/
The Verge RSS	RSS Feed	https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml

Commands / Natural Language Triggers

What you say	What happens
"daily briefing"	Top 5 stories from Hacker News + TechCrunch
"trending on GitHub"	Top 10 GitHub repos today (by language filter)
"AI news this week"	Filter articles matching AI/ML keywords
"tech news about [topic]"	Search + summarize across sources
"save that article"	Bookmark to scripts/bookmarks.json

Workflow

1. Fetch News

When the user asks for news, the agent:

1. Checks which sources to use (default: HN + GitHub Trending)
2. Fetches the latest items using curl
3. Deduplicates and ranks by relevance/recent
4. Summarizes each item in 2-3 sentences

2. Filter by Interest

The agent can filter by:

• Topic: "AI", "cybersecurity", "open source", "startups", etc.
• Source: "HN only", "GitHub trending Python"
• Time: "today", "this week", "past 24h"

3. Bookmark for Later

When the user says "save that", the agent appends to scripts/bookmarks.json with:

• Title, URL, source, date saved
• Optional user note/tag

4. Generate Digest

The agent can compile a markdown summary suitable for:

• Telegram/Signal message
• Email digest
• Local markdown file

Folder Structure

tech-news-daily/
├── SKILL.md
└── scripts/
    └── bookmarks.json       (created on first use)

Examples

User: "Give me my morning tech briefing" Agent: Fetches HN top stories + GitHub trending, presents top 5

User: "Any interesting AI news today?" Agent: Filters & summarizes AI-related articles across sources

User: "Show me Python trending repos" Agent: Fetches https://github.com/trending/python?since=daily, lists top 5

Notes

• All sources are free/public — no API keys needed
• For RSS-based sources, the agent uses curl + basic XML parsing
• Respect rate limits: cache results for at least 10 minutes between fetches