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Agent skill

News to Research Idea Briefing

by OpenLAIR in OpenLAIR/dr-claw

Clusters the latest news-feed results by topic and writes a briefing of research idea seeds with citations, plus a structured seeds file, without crawling new sources.

Custom licenceAuto-check: notesResearch & Science

Install News to Research Idea Briefing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill news-idea-briefing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install OpenLAIR/dr-claw news-idea-briefing --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/OpenLAIR/dr-claw.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/news-idea-briefing .claude/skills/news-idea-briefing && 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-idea-briefing
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
615 words
Files
4 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
36
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Clusters the latest news-feed results by topic and writes a briefing of research idea seeds with citations, plus a structured seeds file, without crawling new sources.

  • Works in 6 steps: Aggregate candidates (deterministic) → Load research context → Refine clusters (your reasoning) → …
  • Turning a day's news feed into a short list of research ideas
  • SKILL.md covers Step 1 — Aggregate candidates…, Step 2 — Load research context, Step 3 — Refine clusters (your… and Step 4 — Generate idea seeds, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python

What it does

The skill takes news results the feed has already collected and turns them into grounded research ideas. A Python helper, cluster_and_seed.py, reads every news-results JSON file in the news data directory, normalizes scores across sources, removes duplicates by canonical ID (an arXiv ID, then a repo URL, then a title hash) and groups items into preliminary buckets by matched domain and top keyword. If a research_brief.json exists in the project, its title, survey scope, research questions and data source bias which clusters come first.

The agent then refines the buckets by splitting or merging them, names each theme in a few words, picks representative items, preferring cross-source sets such as a paper, a model and a repository on one topic, and writes a short what's-new note citing items by canonical ID. Output is two files in a dated folder under Ideation/proactive: idea_briefing.md and seeds.json, whose schema is in a contract reference. A grounding-rules reference is also included.

When your agent uses it

  • Turning a day's news feed into a short list of research ideas
  • Grouping papers, models and repositories on the same topic into themes
  • Producing idea seeds that cite specific items from the feed
  • Running as the briefing step of a proactive research scout

Example prompts

  • “Make today's research idea briefing from the news results in server/data.”
  • “Cluster the latest news items and give me idea seeds that fit my research brief.”
  • “Which clusters in this week's news overlap with the datasets in my project?”
  • “Regenerate the briefing and cite each seed by its arXiv ID or repo URL.”

Requirements

  • Python to run the clustering helper
  • News feed result files in the news data directory
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

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

  1. Aggregate candidates (deterministic)
  2. Load research context
  3. Refine clusters (your reasoning)
  4. Generate idea seeds
  5. (Recommended) Novelty cross-check
  6. Emit artifacts

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d51b64e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Bash
    • Glob
    • Grep

    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:

    • python

    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 to Research Idea Briefing loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 615 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.6k

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: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 615 words (~1,348 tokens).

“You are the News-to-Idea Briefing Assistant for Dr. Claw.”

— opening of SKILL.md by OpenLAIR, Custom licence
name
news-idea-briefing
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts, references) in skills/news-idea-briefing of OpenLAIR/dr-claw.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/contract.md
  • references/grounding-rules.md
  • scripts/cluster_and_seed.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d51b64e

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Questions about News to Research Idea Briefing

What does News to Research Idea Briefing do?

Clusters the latest news-feed results by topic and writes a briefing of research idea seeds with citations, plus a structured seeds file, without crawling new sources. The skill takes news results the feed has already collected and turns them into grounded research ideas.py, reads every news-results JSON file in the news data directory, normalizes scores across sources, removes duplicates by canonical ID (an arXiv ID, then a repo URL, then a title hash) and groups items into preliminary buckets by matched domain and top keyword.

When should I use News to Research Idea Briefing?

News to Research Idea Briefing fits situations like: turning a day's news feed into a short list of research ideas; grouping papers, models and repositories on the same topic into themes; producing idea seeds that cite specific items from the feed; running as the briefing step of a proactive research scout.

How do I install News to Research Idea Briefing in Claude Code?

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

How do I install News to Research Idea Briefing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill news-idea-briefing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/news-idea-briefing in OpenLAIR/dr-claw) into .agents/skills/news-idea-briefing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use News to Research Idea Briefing 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 OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill news-idea-briefing -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-idea-briefing, .gemini/skills/news-idea-briefing, .github/skills/news-idea-briefing and .opencode/skills/news-idea-briefing in your project.

What does News to Research Idea Briefing need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, News to Research Idea Briefing needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python to run the clustering helper; News feed result files in the news data directory. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep.

Does News to Research Idea Briefing 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 to Research Idea Briefing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. 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 to Research Idea Briefing use?

News to Research Idea Briefing has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does News to Research Idea Briefing use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to News to Research Idea Briefing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with News to Research Idea Briefing: Paper Navigator (AI4Scientist/nano-scientist, 128 stars), Ideer Daily Paper (AI45Lab/iDeer, 416 stars), Paper Navigator (EvoScientist/EvoSkills, 478 stars) and Local Search Fallback (taxueseek/argo, 188 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains News to Research Idea Briefing?

OpenLAIR (a GitHub organization) maintains it in OpenLAIR/dr-claw, which has 1,155 GitHub stars. The repository holds 36 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: OpenLAIR/dr-claw on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.