news

name: news description: Poll favorite RSS feeds including Hacker News and Lobsters. Fetches latest tech headlines and provides a summary of current news. Use when you want to catch up on tech news or see what's trending. allowed-tools: WebFetch

News

Fetches and summarizes the latest headlines from your favorite RSS feeds.

Usage

• /news - Fetch all feeds and show top stories
• /news hn or /news hackernews - Hacker News only
• /news lobsters - Lobsters only

Feeds

Note: WebFetch has restrictions on many mainstream news domains (CNN, NYT, Reddit, etc.). The feeds below are confirmed to work.

Hacker News

• URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
• Focus: Tech, startups, programming, science

Lobsters

• URL: https://lobste.rs/rss
• Focus: Programming, technology, computing (more curated than HN)

Workflow

1. Fetch feeds using WebFetch for each RSS URL
2. Parse the XML to extract titles, links, and descriptions
3. Summarize the top 10 stories from each feed
4. Present in a clean, scannable format

Output Format

Present news in this format:

## Hacker News
1. **[Title]**
   [link]

2. **[Title]**
   [link]

## Lobsters
1. **[Title]**
   [link]

Instructions

When /news is invoked:

1. Fetch all configured RSS feeds in parallel using WebFetch
2. For each feed, extract the top 10 items
3. Present stories grouped by source
4. Highlight any particularly notable/trending stories

When a specific source is requested (e.g., /news hn):

• Only fetch that source's feed(s)
• Show up to 15 items instead of 10

Adding New Feeds

To add a new feed, the user can ask to update this skill with:

• Feed name
• RSS URL
• Category (tech, news, general, etc.)

Note: Test new feeds first - WebFetch blocks many news domains.