news
Poll favorite RSS feeds including Hacker News and Lobsters. Fetches latest tech headlines and provides a summary of current news. Use when you want to catch up on tech news or see what's trending.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill news --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# News Fetches and summarizes the latest headlines from your favorite RSS feeds. ## Usage - `/news` - Fetch all feeds and show top stories - `/news hn` or `/news hackernews` - Hacker News only - `/news lobsters` - Lobsters only ## Feeds > **Note:** WebFetch has restrictions on many mainstream news domains (CNN, NYT, Reddit, etc.). > The feeds below are confirmed to work. ### Hacker News - **URL:** https://news.ycombinator.com/rss - **Focus:** Tech, startups, programming, science ### Lobsters - **URL:** https://lobste.rs/rss - **Focus:** Programming, technology, computing (more curated than HN) ## Workflow 1. **Fetch feeds** using WebFetch for each RSS URL 2. **Parse** the XML to extract titles, links, and descriptions 3. **Summarize** the top 10 stories from each feed 4. **Present** in a clean, scannable format ## Output Format Present news in this format: ``` ## Hacker News 1. **[Title]** [link] 2. **[Title]** [link] ## Lobsters 1. **[Title]** [link] ``` ## Instructions When `/news` is invoked: 1. Fetch all configured RSS feeds in parallel using WebFetch 2. For each feed, extract the top 10 items 3. Present stories grouped by source 4. Highlight any particularly notable/trending s
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- Hacker News
- Lobsters
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- Adding New Feeds
What does the news skill do?
Poll favorite RSS feeds including Hacker News and Lobsters. Fetches latest tech headlines and provides a summary of current news. Use when you want to catch up on tech news or see what's trending.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill news --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.