Search.news

Search News

Use this skill when the user asks for news, latest reporting, headlines, recent events, current developments, or time-sensitive source discovery.

Workflow

1. Call web_search with:
   • provider: "searxng"
   • categories: "news"
   • the user's news query
   • freshness: "day" or freshness: "week" when the user asks for recent/latest news and no tighter window is specified.
   • count, country, or language only when the user asks for them or they are clearly implied.
2. Return the most relevant news results with title, URL, age/date when available, and a short snippet.
3. Use web_fetch after web_search before making factual claims beyond the snippets.

Constraints

• Do not use hosted news search providers for this skill unless the user explicitly asks to leave the sovereign SearXNG path.
• Make recency explicit when reporting news.
• If SearXNG is not configured, say that the self-hosted news search provider is unavailable and include the tool error.