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news-summary

This skill should be used when the user asks for news updates, daily briefings, or what's happening in the world. Fetches news from trusted international RSS feeds and can create voice summaries.

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Install

npx skills add https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills --skill news-summary

Use with your agent

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Install the news-summary skill, then use it as build context. Run: npx skills add https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills --skill news-summary. Then read the installed skill.md and follow its guidance to build or refactor my project.

News Summary

Overview

Fetch and summarize news from trusted international sources via RSS feeds.

RSS Feeds

BBC (Primary)

# World news
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"

# Top stories
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"

# Business
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xml"

# Technology
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"

Reuters

# World news
curl -s "https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?best-regions=world&post_type=best"

NPR (US perspective)

curl -s "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml"

Al Jazeera (Global South perspective)

curl -s "https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"

Parse RSS

Extract titles and descriptions:

curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml" | \
  grep -E "<title>|<description>" | \
  sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \
  sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \
  head -30

Workflow

Text summary

  1. Fetch BBC world headlines
  2. Optionally supplement with Reuters/NPR
  3. Summarize key stories
  4. Group by region or topic

Voice summary

  1. Create text summary
  2. Generate voice with OpenAI TTS
  3. Send as audio message
curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tts-1-hd",
    "input": "<news summary text>",
    "voice": "onyx",
    "speed": 0.95
  }' \
  --output /tmp/news.mp3

Example Output Format

📰 News Summary [date]

🌍 WORLD
- [headline 1]
- [headline 2]

💼 BUSINESS
- [headline 1]

💻 TECH
- [headline 1]

Best Practices

  • Keep summaries concise (5-8 top stories)
  • Prioritize breaking news and major events
  • For voice: ~2 minutes max
  • Balance perspectives (Western + Global South)
  • Cite source if asked
news-summary skill.md · skillmd