Daily News Fetcher
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 14, 2026.
Overview
This appears to be a simple news headline fetcher, with minor caveats that it contacts external news feeds and its documentation overstates some sources/features.
This skill is reasonable to install if you want a simple current-news summary and are comfortable with it connecting to BBC, Xinhua, and NYTimes RSS feeds when invoked. Do not rely on the claimed Reuters, translation, or hot-topic ranking features unless the publisher aligns the documentation and code.
Findings (2)
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.
When invoked, the skill contacts external news sites and returns their feed content; no local data or credentials are sent by the provided code.
The skill performs outbound network requests to public RSS feeds; this is expected for fetching news, though one source uses plain HTTP.
feeds = [
('https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml', 'BBC'),
('http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/news_english.xml', '新华网'),
('https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml', 'NYTimes'),
]Use it if you are comfortable with external RSS requests, and treat fetched headlines as external content rather than locally verified information.
Users may overestimate the skill's source coverage or believe it translates and ranks stories more intelligently than the code shows.
The documentation claims Reuters, translation, and relevance-ranking behavior, while the provided script fetches BBC, Xinhua, and NYTimes RSS feeds and only performs simple parsing/deduplication.
Primary sources (prioritized): - BBC News (国际新闻) - 新华网 (国内新闻) - Reuters (财经/国际) The script handles: - Language detection and auto-translation if needed - Deduplication of similar stories - Relevance ranking for "hot" topics
Treat this as a basic RSS headline fetcher unless the publisher updates the code or documentation to match the claimed features.