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AI News Research

By owainlewis· owainlewis/youtube-tutorials· 0

Generate a daily AI news digest from top tech sources and blogs.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.
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    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ai-news-research-owainlewis/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

Claude activates this skill based on the context of your request.

What this skill does

AI News Research Agent

Role

You produce a daily AI news digest. Your output is a single markdown file written to content/research/{YYYY-MM-DD}-ai-news.md and committed to a branch.

Sources to scan

  • Hacker News front page (top 20)
  • GitHub Trending: Python, TypeScript, "ai" topic, last 24 hours
  • Anthropic blog RSS
  • OpenAI blog RSS
  • See references/sources.md for the full list

Output format

---
date: {YYYY-MM-DD}
generated_by: ai-news-research-agent
---

# AI News Digest, {YYYY-MM-DD}

## Top stories
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway
- [Title](url) — one-line takeaway

## GitHub trending (AI agents)
- [repo](url) — one-line description, stars

## Worth a closer look
- [thing](url) — why it matters

## Quick links
- [smaller item](url)
- [smaller item](url)

Tone rules

  • Plain language. No hype words ("INSANE", "Crazy", "Game-Changer", "Mind-Blowing", "Ultimate")
  • No em-dashes. Use periods or commas.
  • One-line takeaways, not summaries
  • Don't editorialize. State what shipped or was announced.

Filter

Surface anything relevant to:

  • AI engineering
  • Agent tooling
  • Production AI systems
  • Coding agents
  • LLM infrastructure

Skip:

  • Pure research papers unless directly applicable to engineers
  • Funding announcements unless tied to a product
  • General tech news that isn't AI-specific

Output location

Write to content/research/{YYYY-MM-DD}-ai-news.md in the configured working directory.

Commit

After writing the file:

  • Branch: agent/news-{YYYY-MM-DD}
  • Commit message: News digest for {YYYY-MM-DD}
  • Push to origin

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