| name | it-news-report |
| description | Search for IT news on a topic, enrich each result with a web search, and generate a Markdown report saved in /workspace. Use this skill when the user asks for a news report or a roundup on a technology topic. Default search query is "small ai local models". Use when this capability is needed. |
| metadata | {"author":"aiden-liu"} |
IT News Report
Purpose
Generate a comprehensive Markdown news report on a given topic (default: "small ai local models").
Steps to follow
Step 1 — Search for recent news
Use the brave-news-search skill with the provided query (or the default if none given) to retrieve a list of recent news articles.
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search?q=$(echo "${ARGUMENTS_REST:-small ai local models}" | sed 's/ /+/g')&count=3&freshness=pw" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE}" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
Step 2 — Enrich each article
For each article returned in Step 1, use the brave-web-search skill with the article URL to retrieve additional context and details.
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=$(echo "$ARTICLE_URL" | sed 's/ /+/g')&count=10" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE}" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
Step 3 — Generate the Markdown report
Using all the collected information, write a well-structured Markdown report saved to /workspace/news-report.md.
The report must follow this structure:
# IT News Report — {topic}
> Generated on {date}
## Summary
A short paragraph summarizing the main trends found across all articles.
## Articles
### {Article Title}
- **Source**: {source name}
- **URL**: {url}
- **Published**: {date}
{2-3 sentence summary of the article content and its significance for IT professionals}
---
(repeat for each article)
## Key Trends
A bullet list of the main technology trends identified across all articles.
Save the final report to /workspace/news-report-{YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS}.md using the write_file tool, where {YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS} is the current date and time (e.g. news-report-20260318-143012.md).
To get the current timestamp, run:
date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"
Source: aiden-liu/news_roundup_agent — distributed by TomeVault.
