Agent skill

News Aggregator Skill

by dracohu2025-cloud in dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection

A skill your agent uses when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports.

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install News Aggregator Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection --skill news-aggregator-skill -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection 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).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/news-aggregator-skill .claude/skills/news-aggregator-skill && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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

Facts

Skill name
news-aggregator-skill
GitHub stars
227
Token cost
~596 tokens
SKILL.md length
212 words
Files
5 (incl. scripts, assets)
Skills in repo
27
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports.

  • Works in 4 steps: Do not treat trending as a launch. → Do not cite HN comments as primary… → Keep source URLs with each item. → …
  • Collecting public news candidates from Hacker News
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Entry Point and Source Rules, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

News Aggregator Skill is an agent skill from dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection. Use when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including scripts and assets (for example `README.md`, `scripts/news_aggregator_run.py` and `templates/menu.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Model hubs and datasets. It works with GitHub and Hugging Face. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Collecting public news candidates from Hacker News
  • GitHub Trending
  • Hugging Face papers
  • Other web sources for briefings and daily reports

Example prompts

  • “/news-aggregator-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Do not treat trending as a launch.
  2. Do not cite HN comments as primary evidence.
  3. Keep source URLs with each item.
  4. Re-verify important items before writing a report.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 26e8975. 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 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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 596 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 44 tokens; SKILL.md has 212 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~44
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~596

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

The full file from dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection at commit 26e8975, republished under its MIT licence (© dracohu2025-cloud). 212 words, ~596 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/news-aggregator-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
news-aggregator-skill
description
Use when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports.
version
1.0.0
author
Hermes Agent
license
MIT
platforms
linux, macos
prerequisites.commands
python3

News Aggregator Skill

Overview

This skill provides a local-first news collection workflow for daily briefings.

It is designed to collect candidate items from public sources, not to decide truth by itself. Treat aggregator output as leads. Important items still need official/GitHub/API/media verification before they enter a final report.

When to Use

Use this skill when the task asks to:

  • collect AI / tech / open-source news candidates
  • inspect Hacker News, GitHub Trending, or Hugging Face papers
  • prepare source material for a daily briefing
  • run a repeatable local news collection command

Entry Point

bash
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py <subcommand> [...args]

Common commands:

bash
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py sources
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py fetch --source hackernews --limit 10 --save
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py fetch --source github --limit 10 --save
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py fetch --source huggingface --limit 10 --save
python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py smoke-test --quick

Source Rules

  • Hacker News is useful for discovery, but noisy.
  • GitHub Trending is a trend signal, not proof of a release.
  • Hugging Face papers are useful for research signals, not product news.
  • Official changelogs, GitHub releases/PRs, docs, and APIs outrank aggregator output.

Output

The public helper script outputs JSON to stdout and can save reports under:

text
reports/YYYY-MM-DD/<source>.json

Common Pitfalls

  1. Do not treat trending as a launch.
  2. Do not cite HN comments as primary evidence.
  3. Keep source URLs with each item.
  4. Re-verify important items before writing a report.

Verification Checklist

  • python3 scripts/news_aggregator_run.py smoke-test --quick passes
  • At least one target source returns JSON
  • Saved output contains title and URL fields
  • Final briefing uses verified sources, not only aggregator output

© dracohu2025-cloud, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (scripts, assets) in news-aggregator-skill of dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • assets/news-aggregator-flow.svg
  • scripts/news_aggregator_run.py
  • templates/menu.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 26e8975

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Questions about News Aggregator Skill

What does News Aggregator Skill do?

A skill your agent uses when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports. News Aggregator Skill is an agent skill from dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection. Use when collecting public news candidates from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Hugging Face papers, and other web sources for briefings and daily reports.

When should I use News Aggregator Skill?

News Aggregator Skill fits situations like: collecting public news candidates from Hacker News; GitHub Trending; hugging Face papers; other web sources for briefings and daily reports.

How do I install News Aggregator Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection --skill news-aggregator-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (news-aggregator-skill in dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection) 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 dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection --skill news-aggregator-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (news-aggregator-skill in dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection) 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 dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection --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). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does News Aggregator Skill access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. 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?

News Aggregator Skill is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does News Aggregator Skill use?

About 596 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k 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: Esmfold2 (JimLiu/science-skills, 228 stars), Publish Tracelab Huggingface (uw-syfi/TraceLab, 142 stars), Discover (taishi-i/awesome-japanese-nlp-resources, 1k stars) and Sn Search Code (OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills, 5.7k 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?

dracohu2025-cloud (a GitHub user) maintains it in dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection, which has 227 GitHub stars. The repository holds 27 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: dracohu2025-cloud/draco-skills-collection on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.