Agent skill

News Aggregator Skill

by cclank in cclank/news-aggregator-skill

Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR…

No licenceAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install News Aggregator Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cclank/news-aggregator-skill --skill news-aggregator-skill -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cclank/news-aggregator-skill news-aggregator-skill --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
news-aggregator-skill
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
736 words
Files
25 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
1
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR…

  • Works in 3 steps: Fetch Data → Generate Report → Save & Present
  • User requests daily scans
  • SKILL.md covers 🔄 Universal Workflow (3 Steps), 📰 Unified Report Template, 🛠️ Tools and ⚠️ Rules (Strict), plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3, pip and playwright; reaches original-url.com and simonwillison.net

What it does

News Aggregator Skill is an agent skill from cclank/news-aggregator-skill. Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR AI, Import AI, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France 24, Reuters fallback, AI Newsletters, WallStreetCN, Weibo, 少数派, InfoQ 中文, Podcasts, and user-defined OPML feeds. Use when user requests 'daily scans', 'tech news', 'finance updates', 'AI briefings', 'international news', 'deep analysis', or says '如意如意' to open the…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 28 other files, including scripts (for example `.agent/workflows/daily_briefing.md`, `MISTAKES.md` and `README.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Model hubs and datasets, Summarization and Newsletters. It works with GitHub, Hugging Face and arXiv. The repository describes itself as: 这是一个为您定制的全网新闻聚合skill,支持多个信息源,支持深度获取,能够阅读文章正文并提供有理有据的深度解读。

When your agent uses it

  • User requests daily scans
  • Finance updates
  • International news
  • Says 如意如意 to open the interactive menu

Example prompts

  • “daily scans”
  • “tech news”
  • “finance updates”
  • “/news-aggregator-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Fetch Data
  2. Generate Report
  3. Save & Present

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b639b62. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 4 files in scripts/ (Python, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3
    • pip
    • playwright

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • original-url.com
    • simonwillison.net

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

News Aggregator Skill loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 139 tokens; SKILL.md has 736 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~139
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 736 words (~2,051 tokens).

“Fetch real-time hot news from 44+ sources (including international news + AI curated aggregators + user-defined OPML feeds), generate deep analysis reports in Chinese.”

— opening of SKILL.md by cclank
name
news-aggregator-skill

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 24 other files (scripts) in the repository root of cclank/news-aggregator-skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • .agent/workflows/daily_briefing.md
  • .gitignore
  • MISTAKES.md
  • README.md
  • implementation_plan.md
  • instructions/briefing_ai_daily.md
  • instructions/briefing_finance.md
  • instructions/briefing_general.md
  • instructions/briefing_github.md
  • instructions/briefing_social.md
  • instructions/briefing_tech.md
  • requirements.txt
  • scripts/daily_briefing.py
  • scripts/debug_hf_detail.py
  • scripts/fetch_bensbites.py
  • scripts/fetch_generic_playwright.py
  • … and 8 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b639b62

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Questions about News Aggregator Skill

What does News Aggregator Skill do?

Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR…. News Aggregator Skill is an agent skill from cclank/news-aggregator-skill.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR AI, Import AI, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France 24, Reuters fallback, AI Newsletters, WallStreetCN, Weibo, 少数派, InfoQ 中文, Podcasts, and user-defined OPML feeds.

When should I use News Aggregator Skill?

News Aggregator Skill fits situations like: user requests daily scans; finance updates; international news; says 如意如意 to open the interactive menu.

How do I install News Aggregator Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cclank/news-aggregator-skill --skill news-aggregator-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the cclank/news-aggregator-skill repository) into .claude/skills/news-aggregator-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install News Aggregator Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cclank/news-aggregator-skill --skill news-aggregator-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the cclank/news-aggregator-skill repository) into .agents/skills/news-aggregator-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use News Aggregator Skill in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cclank/news-aggregator-skill --skill news-aggregator-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/news-aggregator-skill, .gemini/skills/news-aggregator-skill, .github/skills/news-aggregator-skill and .opencode/skills/news-aggregator-skill in your project.

What does News Aggregator Skill need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, News Aggregator Skill needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3, pip and playwright). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does News Aggregator Skill access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: original-url.com and simonwillison.net; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is News Aggregator Skill safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does News Aggregator Skill use?

No licence was found for News Aggregator Skill or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does News Aggregator Skill use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to News Aggregator Skill?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with News Aggregator Skill: Hugging Face Paper Pages (huggingface/skills, 11k stars), Ideer Daily Paper (AI45Lab/iDeer, 416 stars), Morning AI (davepoon/buildwithclaude, 3.6k stars) and Hugging Face Paper Publisher (huggingface/skills, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains News Aggregator Skill?

cclank (a GitHub user) maintains it in cclank/news-aggregator-skill, which has 1,297 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on May 27, 2026.

Source: cclank/news-aggregator-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.