News Summarizer

Fetch and summarize world news from BBC, Reuters, NPR RSS feeds. Can create voice summaries. USE WHEN: "What's happening in the world?", daily briefings, gen...

This skill appears to do what it says (fetch RSS, produce text and voice summaries), but there are a few issues to consider before installing: - SKILL.md uses $OPENAI_API_KEY for TTS but the skill metadata does not declare any required env vars. Confirm whether the skill will need your OpenAI key and what key scope it requires. Do not provide higher-privilege keys than necessary. - The skill will make outbound network requests (curl to news sites and to api.openai.com). If you install it, be comfortable with the agent making those calls autonomously when invoked. - It writes temporary audio to /tmp/news.mp3; ensure your environment's temp handling and permissions are acceptable. - Source/homepage are unknown and there's no code review surface (instruction-only). If you need stronger assurance, ask the publisher for a verified source, or request that the skill metadata be updated to declare OPENAI_API_KEY as a required env var and document intended key scope and data handling (what summary text is sent to the TTS API). If you are okay with the agent using your OpenAI key for TTS and making network calls to public RSS feeds, the functionality is coherent. If not, do not install until the metadata and provenance are clarified.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: news-summarizer Version: 1.0.0 The news-summarizer skill is designed to fetch RSS feeds from reputable news organizations (BBC, Reuters, NPR, The Hindu) and provide text or voice summaries. It uses standard shell utilities (curl, grep, sed) for data retrieval and parsing, and utilizes the OpenAI API for text-to-speech functionality. All actions and commands in SKILL.md are transparent and directly support the stated purpose without any indicators of malicious intent or data exfiltration.