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Agent skill

Rss Digest

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump.

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Install Rss Digest

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rss-digest -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills rss-digest --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rss-digest .claude/skills/rss-digest && 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
rss-digest
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
589 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump.

  • Works in 5 steps: The fetch: curl -sL… → Parse without heroics: items are… → The one-line rule: each item's line… → …
  • Asked summarize this feed
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Fetch, Parse, Digest and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls curl; reaches hnrss.org

What it does

Rss Digest is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump. Use when asked summarize this feed, what's new on this blog, digest these RSS feeds, or build me a morning briefing from these sources. Produces the digest with dates and one-line what-it-is summaries, cross-feed dedup, and the rerunnable commands per feed.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked summarize this feed
  • Whats new on this blog
  • Digest these RSS feeds
  • Build me a morning briefing from these sources

Example prompts

  • “/rss-digest”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The fetch: curl -sL "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" — follow redirects (-L), and identify politely if a feed rejects default agents (-A…
  2. Parse without heroics: items are extracted with straightforward pattern-matching on those tags; HTML inside descriptions gets stripped to…
  3. The one-line rule: each item's line comes from its description/summary content — what the piece actually says — not a restatement of its…
  4. Dedup and order: same-story detection across feeds by normalized title/URL similarity; ordering is newest-first within the window, or…
  5. Honest dating: pubDate/updated converted to the user's zone; items without dates are labeled undated, not invisibly slotted; and the…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl

    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:

    • hnrss.org

    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

Rss Digest loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 589 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~105
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 589 words, ~1,108 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rss-digest/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
rss-digest
description
Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump. Use when asked summarize this feed, what's new on this blog, digest these RSS feeds, or build me a morning briefing from these sources. Produces the digest with dates and one-line what-it-is summaries, cross-feed dedup, and the rerunnable commands per feed.

RSS Digest Skill

RSS never died — every blog, newsroom, podcast, release page, and status page still speaks it, keylessly, and it remains the cleanest way for an agent to answer "what's new from the sources I care about." This skill fetches feeds with curl, parses the two dialects (RSS 2.0 and Atom) without ceremony, and produces what the user actually wanted: a dated, deduplicated briefing with one line of substance per item — not thirty titles.

What This Skill Produces

  • The digest — items with date, source, title, and a one-line what-it-actually-says from the item's own description
  • Cross-feed dedup — the same story via three feeds appears once, sources noted
  • The since-filter — "what's new" means since the user last asked or a stated window, applied
  • The commands — one curl per feed, rerunnable

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The feed URLs — or the site ("find the feed" is part of the job: try /feed, /rss, /atom.xml, /index.xml, and the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> tag in the page head)
  • The window — today, this week, since a date — "what's new" needs an epoch
  • The lens — everything, or filtered to a topic; a briefing has a reader, and the reader has interests

Framework: Fetch, Parse, Digest

  1. The fetch: curl -sL "https://hnrss.org/frontpage" — follow redirects (-L), and identify politely if a feed rejects default agents (-A "rss-digest/1.0"). Feeds are XML; both dialects carry the same essentials: RSS <item><title><link><pubDate><description> · Atom <entry><title><link href><updated><summary/content>.
  2. Parse without heroics: items are extracted with straightforward pattern-matching on those tags; HTML inside descriptions gets stripped to text; entities decoded. Malformed feeds (common) get a best-effort parse and an honest note, not a crash or silent gaps.
  3. The one-line rule: each item's line comes from its description/summary content — what the piece actually says — not a restatement of its title. When the description is empty or useless, say what can be said from the title and mark it thin; fetch the full article only if the user asks for a deep-dive on an item.
  4. Dedup and order: same-story detection across feeds by normalized title/URL similarity; ordering is newest-first within the window, or grouped by source when the user's mental model is per-source.
  5. Honest dating: pubDate/updated converted to the user's zone; items without dates are labeled undated, not invisibly slotted; and the digest states its own window ("covering the last 48h as of [time]").
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Output Format

Digest: [N sources] — [window], as of [time]

[If a lens was set: the matching items first.]

[Source A]

  • [date] [title] — [one line of what it says] ([link]) […]

[Duplicates noted: "also covered by X, Y" · thin-description items marked]

Feeds: [curl per feed] · window: [the since-filter applied]

Quality Checks

  • Every item line summarizes the description, not the title
  • The window is stated and applied — no undated "new"
  • Cross-feed duplicates are merged with sources noted
  • Malformed feeds produce a note, not silent item loss
  • Feed discovery was attempted when given a bare site URL

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not output a link dump — the one-line-of-substance rule is the product
  • Do not restate titles as summaries — the description field exists; use it or mark the item thin
  • Do not fetch every full article by default — the feed's own content first, deep-dives on request
  • Do not present an old cached item as new — the window does the filtering, visibly
  • Do not invent a feed's contents when the fetch fails — report the failure and move to the sources that answered

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Summarize this feed."
  • "What's new on this blog?"
  • "Digest these RSS feeds."
  • "Build me a morning briefing from these sources."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/rss-digest of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Digestaeonfun/aeon770—~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Rss Digest

What does Rss Digest do?

Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump. Rss Digest is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump.

When should I use Rss Digest?

Rss Digest fits situations like: asked summarize this feed; whats new on this blog; digest these RSS feeds; build me a morning briefing from these sources.

How do I install Rss Digest in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rss-digest -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rss-digest in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/rss-digest in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rss Digest in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rss-digest -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rss-digest in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/rss-digest in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rss Digest 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rss-digest -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rss-digest, .gemini/skills/rss-digest, .github/skills/rss-digest and .opencode/skills/rss-digest in your project.

What does Rss Digest need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Rss Digest needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl).

Does Rss Digest access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: hnrss.org; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rss Digest 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rss Digest use?

Rss Digest is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rss Digest use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Rss Digest?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Rss Digest: Rss Digest (amd/gaia, 1.6k stars), Aeon Rss Digest (BankrBot/skills, 1.2k stars), Ak Rss Digest (rookie-ricardo/erduo-skills, 935 stars) and Compose Atoms (lobehub/lobehub, 83k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Rss Digest?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.