News Fetcher Skill
SkillDev toolsFetches top news, recent articles, or RSS feeds from the web using curl, wget or custom scripts to provide the user with the latest information on a given topic.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the News Fetcher Skill skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by next-open-ai/openclawx in presets/workspaces/morning-briefing/skills/news-fetcher/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill when the user asks for the latest news, updates on a topic, or trending topics.
Workflow
- Understand the user's topic of interest (e.g., "AI news", "technology", "sports").
- Use the
read_url_contenttool to fetch RSS feeds (like news.ycombinator.com/rss) or news aggregator sites. If the site requires JavaScript, advise the user that theagent-browserskill might be more appropriate. - Parse the retrieved content. If it's XML/RSS, you can use
bashtools (likexmllint,grep, or short python scripts) to extract titles and URLs. - Present the top 5-10 headlines with URLs to the user in a clean, markdown-formatted list.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 56
- Forks
- 13
- Last commit
- Jun 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
news-fetcher- Source
- github.com/next-open-ai/openclawx