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/install sre-news-digest
Description
Generate a categorized and rated news digest from sre.news. Use for creating SRE/DevOps/Solution Architect daily or periodic news summaries with expert scori...
Usage Guidance
This skill appears to do what it says: it scrapes sre.news, collects article links, and guides the agent to read and summarize articles into a markdown digest. Before installing, consider: (1) running the included Python script in a sandbox or reviewing it yourself (it's small and uses only stdlib network calls to https://sre.news); (2) the agent will fetch and read arbitrary external article pages when producing summaries — avoid letting the agent access any local files or secrets during that process; (3) no credentials are requested, so there is no secret-exfiltration signal in the manifest, but network fetching of third-party pages can expose your agent's IP and user-agent. If you are comfortable with those behaviors, the skill is coherent and proportionate to its purpose.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: sre-news-digest
Version: 1.0.2
The skill is a legitimate news aggregator designed to scrape, rate, and summarize articles from sre.news for SRE and DevOps professionals. The Python script (scripts/scrape_sre_news.py) is a straightforward scraper using standard libraries (urllib, html.parser) with no evidence of malicious execution, data exfiltration, or obfuscation. The instructions in SKILL.md and the supporting documents (references/scoring-rubric.md, templates/digest_template.md) provide clear, task-aligned guidance for the AI agent without any harmful prompt injection attempts.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name/description match the included files: a small Python scraper (scripts/scrape_sre_news.py), a scoring rubric, and a markdown template. All required artifacts are appropriate for generating a news digest from sre.news; no unrelated credentials, binaries, or config paths are requested.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md stays focused on scraping sre.news, reading article URLs, rating and categorizing, and producing a markdown file. It explicitly references local rubric and template files. One notable operational point: the runtime instructions expect the agent (or user) to open and read each article URL on external sites — this necessarily causes network fetches of third-party pages. That is coherent with the purpose but means the agent will access arbitrary external sites while summarizing.
Install Mechanism
No install spec; the skill is instruction-only with a small included Python script. The script uses Python stdlib urllib/html.parser and does a single network fetch to https://sre.news. There are no downloads from unknown hosts or archive extraction steps.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables, no credentials, and no config paths. This is proportionate to its stated function. The included script only performs network reads of sre.news and derives external article URLs but does not attempt to read local secrets or environment.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false and the skill does not request persistent system-wide changes. It writes output to a local markdown file per SKILL.md; that is reasonable for the task and within expected scope.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install sre-news-digest - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/sre-news-digest - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.2
- No changes were made in this version.
- The SKILL.md file remains unchanged from the previous version.
v1.0.1
- Updated scraping instructions to clarify how to run the helper script and interpret its JSON output.
- Provided relative file paths for the helper script, scoring rubric, and digest template.
- Specified improved fallback and data capture guidance for manual article collection when script output is incomplete.
- Clarified that summaries should focus on the article body, explicitly avoiding unrelated external resources.
- Changed output file location to the current working directory, instead of a fixed path.
v1.0.0
SRE News Digest 1.0.0 - Initial release
- Generate professional, categorized, and rated news digests from sre.news.
- Expert-driven workflow: scrape, read, rate, categorize, and format articles for SRE/DevOps audiences.
- Articles grouped by category, rated on a 1–5 star scale with expert summaries.
- Markdown output with clear structure and direct links to source articles.
- Guidance for scoring, categorization, and formatting using provided templates and rubric.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Daily SRE News Digest?
Generate a categorized and rated news digest from sre.news. Use for creating SRE/DevOps/Solution Architect daily or periodic news summaries with expert scori... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 192 downloads so far.
How do I install Daily SRE News Digest?
Run "/install sre-news-digest" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Daily SRE News Digest free?
Yes, Daily SRE News Digest is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Daily SRE News Digest support?
Daily SRE News Digest is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Daily SRE News Digest?
It is built and maintained by imzye (@imzye); the current version is v1.0.2.
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