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News Curator

by Hobohan · GitHub ↗ · v1.0.0 · MIT-0
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Install in OpenClaw
/install hobohan-news-curator
Description
Fetch, filter, dedup, and deliver curated news briefings to Telegram. Benzinga for finance, AI News RSS for tech.
README (SKILL.md)

News Curator

Three daily briefings: morning (7:30am), afternoon (3pm), night (10pm). Each fetches live web content, filters, curates, and delivers to Telegram.

Sources

Type Source
Finance Benzinga Markets feed (site:benzinga.com markets)
AI/Tech Artificial Intelligence News RSS + The Verge AI
Backup Web search: "latest AI artificial intelligence news today" + "latest finance markets news today"

Filter OUT: personal finance, crypto, forex, NFT, spam, low-quality content, price predictions, lifestyle junk.

Delivery format (via Telegram)

📰 News Briefing — June 3

💰 Finance & Markets:
• Title — one-line summary (source) | link

🤖 AI & Tech:
• Title — one-line summary (source) | link

Curated by Patch

Cron schedule

Time Description Model
7:30am Morning briefing deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
3:00pm Afternoon briefing deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
10:00pm Night briefing deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

All pin model explicitly. Timeout: 600s (web search + curation in one turn).

Flow

  1. Cron fires isolated agentTurn
  2. Agent searches web for news (4 searches: finance, AI, Benzinga, The Verge)
  3. Filters out junk content
  4. Selects 6-8 most important items (mix finance + AI)
  5. Formats into briefing block
  6. Agent's response auto-delivers to Telegram via announce delivery mode

Dedup (within single run)

Built into agent prompt: "Filter OUT personal finance, crypto, forex, NFT, spam" — implicit dedup via web search result freshness.

News pending (legacy)

Old flow used news-pending/ directory with curated-news.py fetching RSS at 7:30am. Replaced by direct web search in agentTurn crons. No longer in use.

Scripts

  • deliver-news.sh — legacy shell wrapper (deprecated)
  • send-news-today.sh — legacy delivery (deprecated)

Prefer direct cron agentTurn over shell scripts.

Usage Guidance
Install this only if you want an agent to run on a schedule and send generated news briefings to Telegram automatically. Before enabling it, confirm which Telegram chat or channel receives the posts and whether you want manual review before recurring delivery.
Capability Tags
crypto
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The stated purpose, allowed tools, and instructions align: web fetch/search are used to gather public finance and AI news, cron schedules recurring briefings, and Telegram delivery is explicitly part of the skill.
Instruction Scope
The instructions clearly describe three automatic daily runs and auto-delivery, but they do not add much user-facing detail about Telegram channel selection, approval gates, or disabling delivery.
Install Mechanism
The artifact contains only SKILL.md and CHANGELOG.md with no executable install script, dependency package, obfuscation, or hidden setup behavior.
Credentials
The requested web and cron capabilities are proportionate to scheduled news curation; exec is declared but the skill tells users to prefer direct cron agent turns over deprecated shell scripts and no scripts are included.
Persistence & Privilege
Recurring cron execution is a form of persistence, but it is central to the advertised briefing use case and is disclosed with specific run times.
How to Use
  1. Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
  2. Run the install command in chat: /install hobohan-news-curator
  3. After installation, invoke the skill by name or use /hobohan-news-curator
  4. Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Initial release. Benzinga + AI news curation, web search fallback, Telegram delivery, cron schedule.
Metadata
Slug hobohan-news-curator
Version 1.0.0
License MIT-0
All-time Installs 0
Active Installs 0
Total Versions 1
Frequently Asked Questions

What is News Curator?

Fetch, filter, dedup, and deliver curated news briefings to Telegram. Benzinga for finance, AI News RSS for tech. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 44 downloads so far.

How do I install News Curator?

Run "/install hobohan-news-curator" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.

Is News Curator free?

Yes, News Curator is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.

Which platforms does News Curator support?

News Curator is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).

Who created News Curator?

It is built and maintained by Hobohan (@hohobohan); the current version is v1.0.0.

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