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The News skill
Runs by itself, every morning.

A daily front-page brief per country.

Install the The News skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/sfkislev/the-news.md

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The News

by SFKislev · 17K installs

The skill

With the news skill, agents read live and archived front-page headlines from 20 countries through a public API, for breaking news, current events and comparing how different outlets frame a story.

Only when you ask.

The habit

A daily front-page brief per country.

↻ Runs by itselfevery morning

How the habit works.
You don't have to.

Three questionsWhen does it start? How does it check its work? What does it remember?

01

It starts by itself

every morning. Runs in Claude Code routine.

  • ↻ every morning
  • 0 7 * * *

02

It checks its work

response check. If a check fails, it tries again.

  • ✓each response holds a headlines array with more than zero entries
  • ✓every at value is a UTC timestamp
  • ✓daily-overviews ranges are 7 days or shorter

03

It remembers

daily headline log. The next run reads it first: yesterday's countries, timestamp and main stories.

loops/headline-snapshot-loop/runs.md

One run, step by step.
Then it stops.

Stop ruleStops after at most 5 countries per run.

  1. 01

    Pick countries

    The agent reads the country keys to cover from the run log.

  2. 02

    Fetch snapshots

    It calls the country-view endpoint once per country.

  3. 03

    Read overviews

    It compares the current, previous and yesterday overviews.

  4. 04

    Headlines first

    Raw headlines count as the source of truth; overviews are only context.

  5. 05

    Write the brief

    It names the dominant stories and how framing differs across sources.

  6. 06

    Log

    It saves the timestamp and countries for the next run.

What it may do.
Nothing more.

Safe by defaultIt writes only in its own folder and asks you before anything goes out.

Is it for you?
Use it when it fits.

Quick checkRead both lists. If the left one sounds like you, the The News skill helps.

Use it when

  • ✓ Checking what is happening now in a country
  • ✓ Looking at headlines from a past moment
  • ✓ Comparing framing across outlets

Skip it when

  • – You need full article text
  • – You need verified facts, not headlines

Questions

The News skill, answered.

Does it need an API key?

No. The endpoint is public, read-only and needs no authentication.

Can I trust the overviews?

They are AI-written context. The raw headlines are the source of truth, and neither replaces checking a claim.

Can it look back in time?

Yes, with an at timestamp or the daily-overviews call for up to 7 days.

How do I install the The News skill?

Copy the prompt at the top into your agent. It installs the skill from SFKislev/The-News and sets up the habit. Or run npx skills add SFKislev/The-News --skill the-news.

Is the The News skill free?

Yes. It is published under MIT. Habit is free too.

The News. Now as a habit.

Install the The News skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/sfkislev/the-news.md

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  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude app

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