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News Briefing by zyrexnn — Agent Skill

Name: News Briefing
Author: zyrexnn

File contents

News Briefing via Google News RSS

Class-level workflow for building current-events summaries from live RSS feeds.

Why this approach

Individual outlet RSS URLs are unreliable — guessed paths like detik.com/rss or kompas.com/getrss/nasional return 404. Go to the aggregator first.
The mcp__fetch__fetch tool enforces robots.txt, and news.google.com disallows it. Use curl in the terminal instead; it succeeds where fetch refuses.
After ~~3 consecutive fetch-tool failures the MCP server enters an auto-retry cooldown (~~60s). Don't hammer it — switch to curl immediately.

Workflow

Build the locale feed URL:
- Headlines: https://news.google.com/rss?hl=<lang>&gl=<country>&ceid=<country>:<lang>
  - Indonesia: ?hl=id&gl=ID&ceid=ID:id
  - US English: ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
- Topic/search: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=<urlencoded query>&hl=..&gl=..&ceid=..
Fetch with curl and a browser UA, save to /tmp: curl -sL --max-time 25 -A "Mozilla/5.0" "<URL>" -o /tmp/feed.xml
Parse with Python stdlib regex — use scripts/gnews_parse.py from this skill (handles unescaping, <source> extraction, trailing-outlet dedup): python3 scripts/gnews_parse.py /tmp/feed.xml 25
Summarize grouped by section (e.g. Nasional / Ekonomi / Internasional / Hiburan), keeping headlines close to original wording.
Reply in the user's language.

Output rules (user-checked)

Attribute the source media for every headline — this user asks "source nya darimana?" when provenance isn't obvious. Tag each item with its outlet and list the feed URL at the end of the reply.
Note the retrieval date/time so staleness is clear.
Strip the trailing " - Outlet" duplicate from titles when the <source> tag already names the outlet.
Filter junk: SEO/spam entries (gambling etc.) do slip into aggregated feeds — drop them silently.

Pitfalls

Titles in Google News RSS are HTML-escaped — run them through html.unescape.
<source> carries attributes (<source url="...">Outlet</source>) — capture inner text, not the raw tag.
If curl also fails, fall back to fetching 2–3 major national outlets' homepages directly rather than retrying dead RSS URL guesses.

---name: news-briefingdescription: Fetch and summarize current news/headlines for any country, language, or topic using Google News RSS via curl. Use when the user asks for latest news, today's headlines, a news digest, or topic-specific news summaries.---# News Briefing via Google News RSSClass-level workflow for building current-events summaries from live RSS feeds.## Why this approach- Individual outlet RSS URLs are unreliable — guessed paths like `detik.com/rss` or `kompas.com/getrss/nasional` return 404. Go to the aggregator first.- The `mcp__fetch__fetch` tool enforces robots.txt, and `news.google.com` disallows it. Use `curl` in the terminal instead; it succeeds where fetch refuses.- After ~3 consecutive fetch-tool failures the MCP server enters an auto-retry cooldown (~60s). Don't hammer it — switch to curl immediately.## Workflow1. Build the locale feed URL: - Headlines: `https://news.google.com/rss?hl=<lang>&gl=<country>&ceid=<country>:<lang>` - Indonesia: `?hl=id&gl=ID&ceid=ID:id` - US English: `?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en` - Topic/search: `https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=<urlencoded query>&hl=..&gl=..&ceid=..`2. Fetch with curl and a browser UA, save to /tmp: `curl -sL --max-time 25 -A "Mozilla/5.0" "<URL>" -o /tmp/feed.xml`3. Parse with Python stdlib regex — use `scripts/gnews_parse.py` from this skill (handles unescaping, `<source>` extraction, trailing-outlet dedup): `python3 scripts/gnews_parse.py /tmp/feed.xml 25`4. Summarize grouped by section (e.g. Nasional / Ekonomi / Internasional / Hiburan), keeping headlines close to original wording.5. Reply in the user's language.## Output rules (user-checked)- **Attribute the source media for every headline** — this user asks "source nya darimana?" when provenance isn't obvious. Tag each item with its outlet and list the feed URL at the end of the reply.- Note the retrieval date/time so staleness is clear.- Strip the trailing " - Outlet" duplicate from titles when the `<source>` tag already names the outlet.- Filter junk: SEO/spam entries (gambling etc.) do slip into aggregated feeds — drop them silently.## Pitfalls- Titles in Google News RSS are HTML-escaped — run them through `html.unescape`.- `<source>` carries attributes (`<source url="...">Outlet</source>`) — capture inner text, not the raw tag.- If curl also fails, fall back to fetching 2–3 major national outlets' homepages directly rather than retrying dead RSS URL guesses.

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