aihot

name: aihot description: > Fetch curated AI HOT news briefs and item feeds. Trigger whenever the user asks for today’s AI news, AI HOT picks, AI industry updates, recent AI model releases, or similar queries that need fresh information.

AI HOT Skill

This skill queries https://aihot.virxact.com for the latest curated and full AI news feeds. No browser or API key is required.

Language note: The upstream data mixes English source titles with Chinese summaries. Always render user-facing output in natural English. Translate any Chinese titles or summaries on the fly while leaving source names and URLs verbatim. Section labels returned in Chinese (模型发布/更新, etc.) must also be rendered in English (see the category table below).

Prerequisite: Send a Browser User-Agent

The /api/public/* endpoints reject generic curl/X.Y user agents. Set and use a browser UA header on every API request:

UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
curl -sH "User-Agent: $UA" "https://aihot.virxact.com/api/public/daily"

The installation files under /aihot-skill/ are exempt and can be fetched with the default UA, but every /api/public/* call must carry the browser UA.

Which Endpoint to Use

Default to the curated items feed plus an appropriate since window. Only fall back to other endpoints when the user explicitly asks:

Remember that mode=all is noisier; do not use it unless the user explicitly says “all,” “complete,” or similar.

Category Slugs

The WeChat Official Account feed (/mp) is not exposed via the API; point the user to the website when they ask for 公众号 coverage.

Time Windows

since can reference at most the trailing 7 days; the server clamps anything older. Explicitly choose the window that matches the user’s phrasing (“past 24 hours”, “last 3 days”, etc.).

Example helper:

SINCE=$(date -u -d '24 hours ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
curl -sH "User-Agent: $UA" "https://aihot.virxact.com/api/public/items?mode=selected&since=$SINCE&take=50"

Pagination

/api/public/items returns hasNext and nextCursor. Pass the cursor back verbatim for subsequent pages:

resp=$(curl -sH "User-Agent: $UA" "https://aihot.virxact.com/api/public/items?mode=selected&take=100")
cursor=$(echo "$resp" | jq -r '.nextCursor')
curl -sH "User-Agent: $UA" "https://aihot.virxact.com/api/public/items?mode=selected&take=100&cursor=$cursor"

Stop when cursor is null or hasNext is false.

Response Shapes

Daily Endpoint

{
  "date": "2026-05-07",
  "sections": [
    {
      "label": "模型发布/更新",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Chinese title",
          "summary": "Chinese summary",
          "sourceName": "OpenAI Blog",
          "sourceUrl": "https://…"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "flashes": [...]
}

Items Endpoint

{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "cm1abc…",
      "title": "Chinese title",
      "title_en": "English source title (optional)",
      "summary": "Chinese summary (optional)",
      "source": "OpenAI Blog",
      "url": "https://…",
      "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T15:30:00.000Z",
      "category": "ai-models"
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": "opaque token or null"
}

title_en is only present when the source already published an English title. Prefer title_en if it exists; otherwise translate title.

Rendering Output

Never expose raw endpoint URLs, query parameters, rate-limit details, or cursor tokens to the user. Deliver a clean English brief.

Daily Brief Format

Group by the five sections, translate the labels, and use a single running numbering sequence:

**AI HOT Daily Brief · 2026-05-07**

## Model releases / updates
1. **Title (translated)** — Source  
   2 hours ago  
   Summary (translated)  
   URL

Include the “Flashes” section only when the API returns entries.

Items Feed Format

Group by category when multiple categories appear; otherwise use a flat numbered list. Always translate timestamps to human-readable form (e.g., “today 17:32 (Beijing)” or “2 hours ago”) instead of exposing raw ISO strings.

Translation Rules

• Translate Chinese titles and summaries into idiomatic English.
• Keep source names and URLs as-is.
• Call out the time window in plain language (e.g., “Window 2026-05-05 ~ 2026-05-07”).

Source Attribution

At most once per response, mention that data came from AI HOT (e.g., “Data: aihot.virxact.com”). Do not print endpoint paths or query strings.

Error Handling

• 404 with "No daily report available yet.": Today’s daily isn’t published (the publish job runs 08:00 Beijing). Suggest yesterday’s date.
• 400 errors: fix the bad parameter (bad mode/category/since/take).
• 429 (rate limit): throttle requests; the limit is 600 req/min per IP.

Don’ts

• Don’t improvise “news” from training data—always call the API for fresh info.
• Don’t default to mode=all for broad prompts.
• Don’t reveal raw API debug output to the user.
• Don’t drop URLs; every item must link back to the source.
• Don’t keep raw Chinese text in the response unless the user explicitly asks.