Ai News Researcher

Researches latest AI news, summarizes 5 top stories with sources.

Security Scan

The skill's instructions match its stated purpose (research and summarize AI news); it only reads public web content and writes a Markdown report to a user-home path, with an optional email delivery note that the user should verify before enabling.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description align with the runtime instructions: searching news sites, reading articles, summarizing five stories, and saving a Markdown report. No unrelated binaries, env vars, or config paths are requested.

Instruction Scope

Instructions instruct the agent to use the browser tool to search/read news and to save output to ~/clawd/reports/ai-news-$(date +%Y%m%d).md — this is appropriate for the stated task. The SKILL.md also lists an optional 'email' tool for delivery; that could send report contents externally if configured, so users should confirm email configuration before enabling.

Install Mechanism

No install spec (instruction-only skill). No code will be written to disk by an installer — lowest install risk.

Credentials

The skill declares no environment variables or credentials, which is consistent with just browsing public news. However, the optional email delivery implies external credentials (SMTP/API) may be needed if the email tool is used; those are not declared here and should be provided explicitly by the user if desired.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill is not force-enabled (always: false) and does not request elevated privileges. It does write reports to a subdirectory in the user's home (~/.clawd/reports), which is a limited and expected level of persistence for a reporting skill.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent and low-risk: it will read public news sites and save a Markdown report in ~/clawd/reports. Before installing, decide whether you want reports written automatically to that path (you can change it) and whether to enable the optional email delivery — if you enable email, supply credentials only to trusted services and understand that report contents will be sent externally. If you want to avoid any data leaving your machine, disable the email tool or ensure it's not configured.

AI News Researcher Skill

Tools

• browser: Search and read news sites
• file: Save markdown reports
• email: Optional delivery (configure if needed)

Instructions

1. Search "latest AI news" on Google/news sites.
2. Read 5+ recent articles (prioritize reputable: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, arXiv).
3. Extract key facts, trends, impacts.
4. Summarize in Markdown: bullets per story + links.
5. Save as ~/clawd/reports/ai-news-$(date +%Y%m%d).md