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News Aggregator Skill

Alert level: Medium

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.

Locality:Hybrid
Data access:Public
Actions:Read
Installs 3Downloads 1199Stars 6Updated 204h ago

Why this rating

Deterministic checks triggered by the tool capabilities and evidence.

  • Locality: Hybrid

    Runs `fetch_news.py` to retrieve items from multiple external news sources and can download article text with `--deep`.

  • Data access: Public

    Aggregates public posts/trending items and article content from sites like Hacker News, GitHub Trending, and Product Hunt.

  • Action surface: Read

    Retrieves and summarizes news content without changing external state.

Best practices

Follow these steps to reduce risk when using this skill.

  • Use conservative limits and avoid unnecessary `--deep` crawls to reduce load and accidental over-collection.
  • Respect each site's terms/robots and avoid scraping paywalled or authenticated content unless you have permission.
  • Keep generated reports out of public repos if they include your own annotations or internal topics of interest.

Evidence links

Public sources backing the indicator assignments.

Always be careful when navigating away from the website.

Max-risk rule

If any capability reaches a higher level, the entire indicator level bumps up to keep ratings deterministic and easy to scan.