News Sentiment Scanner

Scan news sources and RSS feeds for events that could move prediction market prices. Score headlines for market impact, flag urgent stories, and cross-refere...

This skill's description overpromises: it claims to score headlines, flag urgent stories, and cross-reference active markets, but the SKILL.md only fetches and prints headlines from a list of RSS feeds. Before installing: (1) Ask the author for the missing pieces — the scoring algorithm, how 'urgent' is defined, and what APIs/credentials are used to cross-reference markets. (2) If you expect automatic market checks, require explicit integrations (e.g., the market platform's API and minimal-scoped credentials) rather than implicit behavior. (3) Be aware the skill will fetch arbitrary external feeds and may be allowed to add feeds at runtime — if you want stricter control, require a fixed whitelist. (4) Consider requesting clearer metadata (remove unused 'jq' requirement) and explicit error handling/logging instead of swallowing exceptions. If these gaps aren't addressed, treat the skill as only a headline-fetcher and not a complete market-impact analyzer.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: news-sentiment-scanner Version: 1.1.0 The news-sentiment-scanner skill is a legitimate RSS feed aggregator designed to fetch headlines from reputable sources (AP News, Reuters, ESPN, Cointelegraph) for market analysis. The implementation in SKILL.md uses standard curl and python3 commands to parse XML data, and there is no evidence of data exfiltration, malicious execution, or prompt injection.