News Skills

Skills for accessing and parsing news feeds

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1 Skill

rss_feeds

Read and monitor RSS and Atom feeds to retrieve the latest articles, filter by date, and summarize news

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Skill Unlocks 1 tool
Content Type
Static (Markdown)
Widgets
n/a

Unlocks Tools

These tools become available when this skill is activated:

rss_reader

Trigger Keywords

rssnewsfeedarticlesblogsubscribeupdates

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# RSS Feed Reader Skill You now have access to the `rss_reader` tool for fetching and parsing RSS feeds. ## Capabilities - Read articles from any RSS/Atom feed - Filter articles by date - Limit the number of articles retrieved - Extract titles, descriptions, publication dates, and links ## Usage Guidelines 1. **Identify the Feed**: Either use a provided RSS URL or help find one: - Most news sites have RSS at `/feed`, `/rss`, or `/feed.xml` - Tech sites: Hacker News, TechCrunch, Ars Technica all have RSS - Blogs typically expose RSS in their HTML head 2. **Fetch Articles**: Use the `rss_reader` tool with parameters: - `url`: The RSS feed URL (required) - `count`: Number of articles (default: 10, max: 100) - `from_date`: Filter articles published after this date 3. **Present Results**: Format the articles clearly: - List article titles with links - Include publication dates - Provide brief summaries/descriptions - Group by topic or date if appropriat...