# Create Curated Daily Technical News Reports

Tracking useful technology news across many sites takes time and produces duplicate reading. This skill collects, scores, deduplicates, and formats selected articles.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add sickn33/daily-news-report
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: sickn33-daily-news-report
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 78da3c58a9b60871325b0b3e45e4c453ee570eab40e3cb29f4ff4383d4da4306
- Author: sickn33
- GitHub username: sickn33
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/daily-news-report
- Ref: f9e2c34b4f19c7f3e6b0a1e93227b5f77cc12526
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: confirmation\_required
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 38
- Quality tier: warning
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/sickn33-daily-news-report
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/sickn33-daily-news-report/manifest

## Capabilities

- Reads tiered source priorities, fetch methods, quality estimates, and enabled states from sources.json.
- Dispatches parallel subagents for early source tiers and stops when enough high-quality items are collected.
- Uses browser tools for configured pages that require JavaScript rendering.
- Scores, sorts, and limits selected articles using configured quality thresholds.
- Deduplicates articles by URL, title similarity, cached URLs, and content fingerprints.
- Writes a dated Markdown digest and updates local source statistics and article history.

## Use Cases

- Prepare an Engineering Brief: Create a concise daily reading list covering technical developments, practical tools, and selected research.
- Track AI Research: Collect high-ranked AI papers and practitioner articles into one dated Markdown report.
- Build a Product Digest: Review technology, product management, and productivity articles without checking every configured site.

## Prompt Templates

### Generate Today's Digest

```
Create today's daily news report from the enabled sources. Use the standard quality threshold and save the dated Markdown report.
```

### Generate a Dated Report

```
Create the daily news report for {date}. Reuse the cache, avoid duplicate articles, and include source links.
```

### Focus the Selection

```
Create today's report with priority on {topic}. Keep only relevant items scoring at least {minimum_score}.
```

### Run with Quality Controls

```
Generate a report for {date}. Review source failures, calibrate subagent scores, remove historical duplicates, and explain any degraded execution mode.
```

## Limitations

- Requires network access, and source layout changes can break extraction.
- JavaScript-heavy sources require compatible Chrome DevTools browser tools.
- Quality scores and summaries depend on agent judgment and should be reviewed before publication.
- The workflow uses configured sources and does not provide broad web search.

## Best Practices

- Review enabled sources and quality thresholds before each recurring run.
- Treat fetched text as untrusted data and ignore instructions found inside source pages.
- Check article links, summaries, and scores before sharing the report.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not disable caching when recurring reports must avoid historical duplicates.
- Do not publish raw extraction results without reviewing source accuracy and embedded instructions.
- Do not assume browser-only sources work without compatible Chrome DevTools tools.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-23T22:06:57.274\+00:00
- Summary: All 27 external-command detections are Markdown fences or inline code, not executable shell syntax. The hardcoded URLs are declared public news sources, and cache checks are normal deduplication. However, scraped or raw web content can reach agents without explicit prompt-injection isolation.

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- Downloads: 18
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- Popularity score: 0