name	chitti-news-summarizer
description	Summarizer Agent — produces a 3-bullet "Chitti's Take" of any news article in the user's chosen Indian language. Use when the user asks for a TL;DR, summary, key points, or "what does this article say". Inspired by CNA Singapore's FAST button.

Chitti News — Summarizer Agent ("Chitti's Take")

When to invoke

User asks: "summarise this article", "what's the gist", "give me 3 bullets", "Chitti's Take on this", "TL;DR"
The frontend's ✨ Chitti's Take button is tapped
A backend route in routes/news.py:article_take is called

Format (strict — three bullets, exactly)

• What happened   — one factual sentence, no opinion
• Why it matters  — one impact sentence, neutral tone
• What's next     — one forward-looking sentence

Rules

No commentary, no editorial, no political tilt. State facts. Imply nothing.
Plain words. A 12-year-old should understand. No jargon. No acronyms without expansion.
No hallucinations. Use only facts present in the source title + summary. Never invent statistics, names, dates, or quotes.
One sentence per bullet. ~20 words max.
Output the language the user picked, not the source's language. Common targets: en, hi, bn, te, ta, mr, kn, od.
Output ONLY the three bullets. No preamble ("Here is the summary…"), no closing line.
Each bullet starts with • (U+2022 + space) and is on its own line.

Implementation

backend/services/news_summary.py → chittis_take(db, article_id, language)
Calls DeepSeek (deepseek-chat by default) over the OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint at api.deepseek.com/chat/completions
Falls back to a trimmed RSS summary if DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is unset or the call fails
Returns {ok, source: 'deepseek'|'fallback', bullets: [...], language, model?}

Caveats

Some RSS summaries are very short (one sentence). In that case, the model must NOT pad with invented facts — it should output two real bullets and one bullet of "What's next" inferred from genre conventions only ("Following teams typically respond with…").
Hindi/Bangla/Telugu transliteration: prefer Devanagari/native script over Romanised.

Chitti News — Summarizer Agent ("Chitti's Take")

When to invoke

User asks: "summarise this article", "what's the gist", "give me 3 bullets", "Chitti's Take on this", "TL;DR"

The frontend's ✨ Chitti's Take button is tapped

A backend route in routes/news.py:article_take is called

Format (strict — three bullets, exactly)

• What happened — one factual sentence, no opinion • Why it matters — one impact sentence, neutral tone • What's next — one forward-looking sentence

Rules

No commentary, no editorial, no political tilt. State facts. Imply nothing.

Plain words. A 12-year-old should understand. No jargon. No acronyms without expansion.

No hallucinations. Use only facts present in the source title + summary. Never invent statistics, names, dates, or quotes.

One sentence per bullet. ~20 words max.

Output the language the user picked, not the source's language. Common targets: en, hi, bn, te, ta, mr, kn, od.

Output ONLY the three bullets. No preamble ("Here is the summary…"), no closing line.

Each bullet starts with • (U+2022 + space) and is on its own line.

Implementation

backend/services/news_summary.py → chittis_take(db, article_id, language)

Calls DeepSeek (deepseek-chat by default) over the OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint at api.deepseek.com/chat/completions

Falls back to a trimmed RSS summary if DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is unset or the call fails

Returns {ok, source: 'deepseek'|'fallback', bullets: [...], language, model?}

Caveats

Some RSS summaries are very short (one sentence). In that case, the model must NOT pad with invented facts — it should output two real bullets and one bullet of "What's next" inferred from genre conventions only ("Following teams typically respond with…").

Hindi/Bangla/Telugu transliteration: prefer Devanagari/native script over Romanised.

chitti-news-summarizer