thought-leader-tracker

Daily automated collection of podcasts, interviews, and videos from thought leaders across YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Generates Markdown reports w...

Security Scan

The skill's code, instructions, and resource needs match its stated purpose (collecting publicly available podcast/YouTube content) and there are no surprising network sinks, credential requests, or install steps.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description align with included files: a Bash CLI and a Node.js collector that query public iTunes (Apple Podcasts) APIs and contain placeholders for YouTube/Spotify integration. No unrelated credentials, binaries, or privileged system paths are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and the scripts restrict activity to reading config.json, calling public iTunes endpoints, generating Markdown reports in daily-logs/, and optionally using YouTube/Spotify APIs (not implemented in this copy). The docs mention setting YOUTUBE_API_KEY for production; the code only has commented placeholders for using that key. Minor scope note: the add-person flow in the Bash script prints a JSON entry but does not actually modify config.json — this is a functional issue rather than malicious scope creep.

Install Mechanism

There is no install specification that downloads or extracts remote archives; the skill is instruction+source only. Included files are local and do not pull arbitrary external code at install time.

Credentials

The skill does not require environment variables by default. SKILL.md advises configuring YOUTUBE_API_KEY and Spotify OAuth for full functionality — these are proportionate and expected for those integrations. No unrelated secrets are requested.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false, autonomous invocation is the platform default, and the skill does not modify other skills or global agent settings. It writes reports only into its own daily-logs/ directory (no system-wide changes).

Assessment

This skill appears coherent with its stated purpose. Before installing: (1) Note that full YouTube/Spotify support in production will require you to supply API credentials — only provide those to this skill if you intend to enable those integrations and you trust the skill; check any future changes that add network endpoints. (2) The skill writes scraped results into ~/.openclaw/skills/thought-leader-tracker/daily-logs/, so consider whether that data (reports) should be stored on the host or handled elsewhere. (3) It requires Node.js to run; optionally jq improves CLI output. (4) The add-person flow in the provided bash script does not persist entries automatically — edit config.json directly for reliable configuration. (5) If you plan to run it on a schedule, add the cron entry yourself rather than granting it always-on privileges.

Automated system for collecting and analyzing content from thought leaders across multiple platforms.

Quick Start

# Collect content from last 7 days
~/.openclaw/skills/thought-leader-tracker/thought-leader-tracker.sh collect

# Collect content from last 30 days
~/.openclaw/skills/thought-leader-tracker/thought-leader-tracker.sh collect 30

# List tracked thought leaders
~/.openclaw/skills/thought-leader-tracker/thought-leader-tracker.sh list

Configuration

Edit config.json to customize:

Add New Thought Leader

{
  "name": "Your Name",
  "keywords": ["keyword1", "keyword2", "keyword3"],
  "platforms": ["youtube", "apple-podcasts", "spotify"]
}

Default Thought Leaders

• Boris Cherny (Performance, React, JavaScript)
• 李飞飞 Fei-Fei Li (AI, Computer Vision)
• Elen Verna (Product Management, SaaS)
• Peter Steinberger (Software Development)
• Dan Koe (Creator Economy)
• Demis Hassabis (DeepMind, AI, AGI)

Output Format

Reports are saved to daily-logs/ with:

• Title - Content title
• Link - Direct URL to content
• Publish Date - When content was released
• Summary - Content description
• Key Points - Extracted main points
• Common Themes - Topics mentioned by 2+ thought leaders

API Setup (Production)

For full functionality, configure:

1. YouTube Data API: Set YOUTUBE_API_KEY environment variable
2. Spotify API: Configure OAuth2 credentials

Current implementation uses available public APIs (iTunes Search) and placeholders for authenticated services.

Automation

Add to crontab for daily collection:

# Daily at 8 AM
0 8 * * * ~/.openclaw/skills/thought-leader-tracker/thought-leader-tracker.sh collect 7

File Structure

thought-leader-tracker/
├── SKILL.md
├── thought-leader-tracker.sh    # Main CLI script
├── config.json                  # Configuration
├── scripts/
│   └── collector.js             # Content collection logic
└── daily-logs/                  # Generated reports
    └── daily-report-YYYY-MM-DD-7d.md