| name | news-digest |
| description | Pull current headlines (optionally about a topic) and present a scrollable news feed with short summaries. Use for "what's the news?", "headlines about AI", "catch me up on…", or a morning briefing's news section. Triggers: news, headlines, what's happening, catch me up, latest on, current events, briefing. |
| license | MIT |
| compatibility | Requires JarvisVR agent-backend. Offline returns deterministic mock headlines; live feeds need a configured provider. |
| metadata | {"agent":"research-agent","category":"research","version":"1.0","author":"jarvisvr"} |
| allowed-tools | get_news show_news |
News Digest
Give a quick, scannable read of the top stories and render them as a news_feed
the user can browse and tap into.
Steps
- Determine scope. Optional
topic (e.g. "AI", "markets", "Tokyo"); none =
top headlines.
- Call
get_news{topic?}. Returns data.articles (id, headline, source,
summary) and a news_feed directive.
- Voice a 1–2 line digest — the count and the lead headline — via
agent.speech; render the feed for browsing.
- Drill-down: a tapped article (
client.interaction{name:"open_article"})
can be expanded with summarize-source.
Output
news_feed (show_news, props per registry.json):
{ "widget_type": "news_feed",
"transform": { "anchor": "world", "billboard": true },
"props": { "title": "News — AI", "category": "AI",
"articles": [
{ "id": "a1", "headline": "New on-device model halves latency", "source": "JarvisWire",
"summary": "Inference moves to the headset." },
{ "id": "a2", "headline": "Analysts weigh in on AI trends"
agent.speech:
{ "text": "Top of the AI news: a new on-device model that halves latency, plus three more stories.",
"final": true }
Edge cases
- Nothing for the topic → say so and offer the general feed.
- Sensitive/distressing headlines → keep the tone neutral and factual.
- Recency offline → mention these are sample headlines unless a live provider
is configured.
- Deep dive on one story → hand the article id to
summarize-source.
- Part of a briefing → combine with
market-briefing + manage-calendar
under one stage-agent present-data layout.
