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News Aggregator Skill

by cclank · GitHub ↗ · v0.1.0
cross-platform ⚠ suspicious
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Install in OpenClaw
/install news-aggregator-skill
Description
Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 8 major sources: Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, 36Kr, Tencent News, WallStreetCN, V2EX, and Weibo. Best for 'daily scans', 'tech news briefings', 'finance updates', and 'deep interpretations' of hot topics.
Usage Guidance
Review this before installing if your agent runs inside a private network or has access to sensitive files, credentials, or internal services. Use it only in a constrained environment, avoid deep-fetch mode for untrusted sources, pin dependencies, and treat fetched article text and generated reports as untrusted content.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: news-aggregator-skill Version: 0.1.0 The skill is classified as suspicious primarily due to prompt injection instructions found in `SKILL.md`. Specifically, the 'Smart Keyword Expansion' section explicitly instructs the AI agent to automatically expand and modify the user's input keywords (e.g., 'AI' -> 'AI,LLM,GPT,...') before executing the `fetch_news.py` script. While the stated intent is to broaden search results, this constitutes an instruction for the agent to override or augment user input, which is a form of prompt manipulation. Additionally, the `scripts/fetch_news.py` performs extensive web scraping, including fetching content from arbitrary article URLs if the `--deep` flag is used, which is a high-risk capability, though it appears to be aligned with the skill's stated purpose and lacks direct malicious indicators like exfiltration or arbitrary code execution.
Capability Assessment
⚠ Credentials
Network access is central to the skill, but unrestricted deep article fetching lacks an allowlist, private-address filtering, redirect controls, or explicit containment guidance.
ℹ Install Mechanism
Installation instructions use a floating GitHub/NPX source and unpinned Python dependencies; this is a supply-chain reproducibility issue, but not evidence of malicious code in the artifact.
⚠ Instruction Scope
The skill uses broad natural-language triggers, asks the agent to expand keywords automatically, and requires full reports to be saved, which makes activation and side effects broader than a narrowly scoped news lookup.
ℹ Persistence & Privilege
The skill tells the agent to always write timestamped reports under reports/, which is disclosed but lacks opt-in, retention guidance, or a no-save mode; no cron, startup hook, memory poisoning, or backdoor persistence was found.
⚠ Purpose & Capability
Fetching and summarizing news is coherent with the stated purpose, but deep mode follows externally supplied article URLs and passes extracted page text into agent analysis without a trust-boundary warning.
How to Use
  1. Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
  2. Run the install command in chat: /install news-aggregator-skill
  3. After installation, invoke the skill by name or use /news-aggregator-skill
  4. Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v0.1.0
Initial release of news-aggregator-skill: - Aggregates, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time news from 8 major sources including Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, and more. - Supports broad "global scan" and smart keyword expansion for user queries. - Adds deep fetching mode to extract article text (`--deep` flag). - Interactive menu system for user guidance via templates. - Smart time filtering and "smart fill" to ensure meaningful reports. - Responses formatted in Magazine/Newsletter style with deep interpretations (in Simplified Chinese). - Full reports automatically saved to `reports/` directory and presented to the user.
Metadata
Slug news-aggregator-skill
Version 0.1.0
License —
All-time Installs 0
Active Installs 0
Total Versions 1
Frequently Asked Questions

What is News Aggregator Skill?

Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 8 major sources: Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, 36Kr, Tencent News, WallStreetCN, V2EX, and Weibo. Best for 'daily scans', 'tech news briefings', 'finance updates', and 'deep interpretations' of hot topics. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 11584 downloads so far.

How do I install News Aggregator Skill?

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

Is News Aggregator Skill free?

Yes, News Aggregator Skill is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.

Which platforms does News Aggregator Skill support?

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

Who created News Aggregator Skill?

It is built and maintained by cclank (@cclank); the current version is v0.1.0.

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