| name | ai-news-radar |
| description | Fetch curated AI news, social signals, blogs, papers, events, and skills from the Agentic Brew public RSS feeds (https://www.agenticbrew.ai/feed/*.xml) and return a compact, agent-friendly list. Use when the user wants "today's AI news", "what's trending in AI", "AI papers this week", "AI events", "AI blogs", "trending AI repos", "trending AI on Reddit / YouTube / Product Hunt", "trending AI skills", "ai news radar", "agentic brew feed", "AI signal radar", "latest AI digest", or any request to pull curated AI items from Agentic Brew without writing a scraper. |
Agentic Brew Feed Fetcher
Pulls items from the Agentic Brew public RSS endpoints and returns them as a clean list. No auth, no scraping — just an HTTP GET against the latest run_log's published feed.
Available feeds
Usage
/ai-news-radar [feed] [--limit N] [--query KEYWORD] [--json]
feed (optional, default news): one of news, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, product_hunt, skill, blog, paper, event, all--limit N (optional, default 20): max items to return--query KEYWORD (optional): case-insensitive substring filter over title + description--json (optional): emit JSON instead of markdown
Default interactive flow (no args, or vague request)
This skill covers a lot of ground — 11 feeds spanning news, social, papers, events, and more. If the user invokes it without specifying a feed (e.g., "show me what's new on Agentic Brew", "give me today's AI digest"), do NOT silently default to one feed. Instead, before fetching anything:
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Ask the user which categories they want. Use the host agent's question UI (in Claude Code: AskUserQuestion with multiSelect: true) so the user can pick any subset of:
news, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, product_hunt, skill, blog, paper, event
Plus an all shortcut. Show a one-line description of each so the user knows what they're picking. If the user says "everything" or "all", treat as all.
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Ask the delivery frequency. Single-select:
once — fetch immediately and return the result.daily — fetch now AND propose setting up a recurring task. In Claude Code, suggest the /schedule skill (cron) or /loop (interval). For other host agents, surface their equivalent or tell the user how to re-invoke.weekly — same idea, weekly cadence.
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Ask how much detail to include per item. Single-select:
headlines — title only. Compact list, just "what happened."summary — title + the AI-generated summary / overview / engagement stats (whichever the feed provides) + the source link. The default Agentic Brew item shape.detailed — title + full description (no truncation) + source link + any content:encoded inner content (e.g., tweet list for twitter, overview bullets for news) + the <category> tags.
To apply the choice: fetch with --json internally, then format the items per the chosen detail level. Do NOT pass --limit so low that you lose information the user asked for — only --limit controls how many items, not how deep each one goes.
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Once the user has answered all three, fetch the selected feeds in parallel and present a single combined report grouped by category, formatted at the chosen detail level. If they chose daily/weekly, ALSO offer to set up the recurring schedule before exiting — don't silently leave it as a one-shot.
If the user provides explicit args (e.g., /ai-news-radar news --limit 5), skip the questions entirely and execute directly per the Usage section.
Steps (direct invocation)
- Resolve the feed URL from the chosen feed name. If the argument is invalid, abort and tell the user the valid options.
- Run the fetch + parse one-liner below. It uses the Python stdlib only (
urllib, xml.etree) — no extra installs.
- Print the result. Default output is a markdown list (
- [title](link) — pubDate · description). With --json, print a JSON array of {title, link, description, pub_date, categories}.
Fetch + parse one-liner
Substitute FEED, LIMIT, QUERY, and FORMAT (md or json) before running.
FEED="news"
LIMIT=20
QUERY=""
FORMAT="md"
python3 - "$FEED" "$LIMIT" "$QUERY" "$FORMAT" <<'PY'
import json, sys, urllib.request, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
FEED, LIMIT, QUERY, FORMAT = sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]), sys.argv[3].lower(), sys.argv[4]
URL = f"https://www.agenticbrew.ai/feed/{FEED}.xml"
req = urllib.request.Request(URL, headers={"User-Agent": "ai-news-radar-skill/1.0"})
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as r:
xml_bytes = r.read()
root = ET.fromstring(xml_bytes)
items = []
for it in root.iter("item"):
def text(tag):
el = it.find(tag)
return (el.text or "").strip() if el is not None and el.text else ""
title = text("title")
link = text("link")
desc = text("description")
pub = text("pubDate")
cats = [c.text.strip() for c in it.findall("category") if c.text]
hay = f"{title}\n{desc}".lower()
if QUERY and QUERY not in hay:
continue
items.append({
"title": title, "link": link, "description": desc,
"pub_date": pub, "categories": cats,
})
if len(items) >= LIMIT:
break
if FORMAT == "json":
print(json.dumps(items, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
else:
for i in items:
d = i["description"]
if len(d) > 200: d = d[:199] + "…"
print(f"- [{i['title']}]({i['link']}) — {i['pub_date']}\n {d}")
if not items:
print("(no items matched)")
PY
Notes
- The feeds always reflect the latest published run_log, so calling this skill twice in the same day usually returns the same items. There is no incremental cursor — caller is responsible for dedup if needed.
- On non-2xx HTTP responses, surface the status code and URL in RED so the user can see which endpoint failed.
- If
xml.etree cannot parse the body, log a YELLOW warning with the first 200 chars of the response so the user can diagnose (likely a CDN error page, not XML).
- This skill is read-only against a public endpoint — no credentials, no rate limiting on the caller side. Be polite: do not call in a tight loop.
