News Monitor Storylines

News Monitor: Storylines Skill

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News Monitor: Storylines Skill

This skill monitors news articles for a given entity and clusters them into distinct storylines.

Use Cases

  • Tracking media coverage for a specific player, team, or league.
  • Identifying emerging narratives and trending topics.
  • Summarizing key events over a specific time period.

How to Use

Invoke the skill through its entry-point workflow, news-monitor-workflow, providing the following inputs:

  • entity (string): The name of the entity to search for (e.g., "Kylian Mbappé").
  • entity_type (string): The type of entity (e.g., "player", "team").
  • start_date (string): The start date for the news search (e.g., "2023-10-27").

Example

machina skills run news-monitor-storylines entity="Kylian Mbappé" entity_type="player" start_date="2024-05-01"

Output

The skill returns a JSON object with two main keys:

  • storylines: A list of identified storylines, each with a title, summary, timeline, sources, and a recommended action.
  • outliers: A list of articles that did not fit into any specific storyline.

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Frequently asked questions

npx skillmds@latest add machina-sports/news-monitor-storylines