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Venetech News
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oscarmiranda90
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· v0.0.1
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/install venetech-news
Description
Usa este skill siempre que el usuario pida noticias, actualizaciones, resúmenes o briefings sobre tecnología, startups, inteligencia artificial, fintech, cri...
Usage Guidance
This skill appears coherent for news aggregation, but consider the following before installing or running it:
- Privacy: it fetches content from many external sites, so the agent's IP and request metadata will be visible to those sites.
- Environment impact: the instructions run 'pip install ... --break-system-packages', which can modify the system Python environment; prefer running inside an isolated virtualenv or sandbox or preinstalling libraries.
- Legal/ToS: scraping some sites may violate their terms; consider using official RSS/APIs where available.
- Reliability & safety: fetched HTML can contain unexpected content; run parsing in a controlled environment and validate outputs.
- If you need stricter guarantees, ask the skill author to avoid --break-system-packages, provide a formal install spec, or use vetted news APIs rather than ad-hoc scraping.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: venetech-news
Version: 0.0.1
The skill is a news aggregator that uses high-risk capabilities such as shell command execution (curl), network access to multiple external domains, and environment modification via 'pip install --break-system-packages'. While these actions are plausibly needed for the stated purpose of scraping tech news from Venezuelan and international portals (e.g., con-cafe.com, xataka.com), the reliance on these capabilities without strict sandboxing or input sanitization warrants a suspicious classification despite the lack of clear malicious intent or data exfiltration.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The name/description (VeneTech News) align with the runtime instructions: curling RSS/HTML feeds, parsing RSS/XML, and using BeautifulSoup for site-specific HTML. Nothing in the instructions requests unrelated credentials, system access, or tooling beyond what a scraper/summarizer would reasonably need.
Instruction Scope
The SKILL.md explicitly instructs the agent to run curl and Python snippets, install Python libraries at runtime (requests, beautifulsoup4), and scrape many external news sites. It does not instruct reading local files or env vars. Considerations: these network requests expose the agent's IP to remote sites and scraping may conflict with sites' terms of service; the instructions include a pip install command and use a custom User-Agent header. No evidence of data exfiltration beyond fetching remote content, but the scope includes repeated external HTTP access.
Install Mechanism
There is no formal install spec (instruction-only), so nothing is written to disk by an installer. However, the runtime instructions call 'pip install ... --break-system-packages', which will download packages from PyPI and can modify the Python environment. That is a moderate operational risk in shared or locked-down environments; it is not inherently malicious but is worth attention (prefer preinstalled libs or a virtual environment).
Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables, no credentials, and no config paths. The instructions do not reference secrets or unrelated env vars. The external network access required is proportional to the stated purpose (fetching web feeds and pages).
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always-enabled and is user-invocable (defaults). It does not request persistent system privileges or attempt to modify other skills or global agent settings in the SKILL.md. Runtime pip installs would change the local Python environment but that is not the same as requesting permanent platform privileges.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install venetech-news - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/venetech-news - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v0.0.1
Initial release of VeneTech News: tecnología, startups y ecosistema digital venezolano.
- Proporciona resúmenes editoriales de noticias tech y startups, priorizando el contexto venezolano y latinoamericano.
- Integra scraping de 8 portales venezolanos y RSS de 6 medios internacionales y regionales.
- Output por categorías como Startups Venezuela, IA, Fintech/Cripto, Gadgets/Apps, y más, en formato editorial y conciso.
- Incorpora filtros para destacar noticias relevantes para el ecosistema venezolano.
- Incluye buenas prácticas: respeto de robots.txt, uso de User-Agent real y rate limiting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Venetech News?
Usa este skill siempre que el usuario pida noticias, actualizaciones, resúmenes o briefings sobre tecnología, startups, inteligencia artificial, fintech, cri... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 331 downloads so far.
How do I install Venetech News?
Run "/install venetech-news" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Venetech News free?
Yes, Venetech News is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Venetech News support?
Venetech News is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Venetech News?
It is built and maintained by oscarmiranda90 (@oscarmiranda90); the current version is v0.0.1.
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