AI News Skill#

Fetch and summarize AI industry news from curated RSS feeds. Designed to catch major model releases (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, GLM, etc.) and important AI news.

Usage#

Invoke with /ai-news or ask for "AI news", "morning briefing", "what's new in AI".

Feeds#

This skill fetches from 15 curated sources:

Aggregators (daily/weekly digests):

• TLDR AI — Daily AI industry digest
• Hacker News — Breaking tech news
• The Decoder — AI-focused site
• Last Week in AI — Weekly roundup
• Marktechpost — Research coverage

Lab Blogs (via Olshansk/rss-feeds):

• Anthropic News — Company announcements
• Claude Blog — Product updates and guides
• Anthropic Red Team — Safety research
• OpenAI Research — GPT releases (⚠️ currently empty)
• xAI News — Grok releases (⚠️ stale since Sept 2025)
• Google AI — Gemini/DeepMind
• Claude Code Changelog — CLI updates

AI Coding Tools (via Olshansk/rss-feeds):

• Cursor Blog — Cursor editor releases
• Windsurf Blog — Windsurf/Codeium releases
• Ollama Blog — Local model runner updates

Instructions#

Step 0: Idempotency Check (Save Mode Only)#

If --save was requested AND --regenerate was NOT specified:

1. Determine today's briefing path (same logic as Step 7.5)
2. Check if ai-news-YYYY-MM-DD.md already exists at that path
3. If it exists → read and return its contents to the user with note: (Cached — run with --regenerate to refresh)
4. If it does not exist → proceed to Step 1

If --save was NOT requested, skip this step entirely.

Step 1: Load Feed Configuration#

Read the feed list from feeds.json in this skill directory.

Step 2: Fetch Feeds (Parallel)#

For each feed in feeds.aggregators, feeds.labs, and feeds.tools, use web_fetch to retrieve the RSS content:

text

web_fetch(url: "<feed_url>", extractMode: "text")

Fetch priority 1 feeds first, then priority 2.

Step 3: Parse RSS Items#

RSS feeds are XML. Extract items using these patterns:

text

<item>
  <title>...</title>
  <link>...</link>
  <pubDate>...</pubDate>
  <description>...</description>
</item>

For Atom feeds:

text

<entry>
  <title>...</title>
  <link href="..."/>
  <published>...</published>
  <summary>...</summary>
</entry>

Step 4: Filter by Date#

Compute cutoff = current datetime - exactly 86400 seconds (24 hours). Discard any item where pubDate or published is earlier than cutoff. Do not round or approximate — if an item is 25 hours old, it is excluded.

Weekly mode (user says "week" or "last 7 days"): use 604800 seconds instead.

Step 5: Deduplicate#

Same story may appear in multiple feeds. Dedupe by:

1. Exact title match
2. Similar title (>80% overlap)
3. Same link URL

Keep the version from the highest-priority source.

Step 6: Categorize#

Assign each item to a category:

CategoryKeywordsModel Releases"release", "launch", "announce", model names (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, GLM, Llama)Research"paper", "research", "study", "benchmark"Industry"funding", "acquisition", "hire", "layoff", "IPO"Product"feature", "update", "API", "pricing"Opinion"think", "believe", "future", "prediction"

Step 7: Format Output#

markdown

# AI News Briefing
**Date:** [today's date]
**Sources:** [count] feeds checked
**Period:** Last 24 hours

---

## Model Releases
1. **[Title]** — [1 sentence summary]. [Source]
2. ...

## Research
1. **[Title]** — [1 sentence summary]. [Source]
...

## Industry News
1. **[Title]** — [1 sentence summary]. [Source]
...

---

**Coverage Gap:** Chinese AI labs (Zhipu, DeepSeek, Baidu, Alibaba) don't publish RSS. Check manually for major releases.

Step 7.5: Save to File (Optional)#

Only activate this step if the user explicitly requested it — via --save, save to file, or similar phrasing. Do NOT save by default.

If saving is requested:

1. Determine the save directory:

   • If the user specified a path in their request, use that path exactly
   • Otherwise default to ~/ai-news/ where date is today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format

2. Write the full formatted briefing to <dir>/ai-news-YYYY-MM-DD.md using the Write tool

3. Write a links reference file to <dir>/ai-news-YYYY-MM-DD-links.md using the Write tool: markdown

   # AI News Links — YYYY-MM-DD
   ## Model Releases
   

• Title

Research#

• Title

Industry News#

• Title

Include every item from the briefing with its source URL.
4. Confirm to the user:
   text

Saved to /ai-news-YYYY-MM-DD.md Links → /ai-news-YYYY-MM-DD-links.md

### Step 8: Handle Errors

If a feed fails to fetch:

- Log the error
- Continue with remaining feeds
- Note failed sources in output

## Customization

Edit `feeds.json` to add/remove feeds, change priorities, or enable optional feeds. See `README.md` for cron integration and full documentation.