News Summary
This skill should be used when the user asks for news updates, daily briefings, or what's happening in the world. Fetches news from trusted international RSS feeds and can create voice summaries.
v1.0.1
2026/01/06
- Added detailed documentation of news sources and RSS feed usage, with example `curl` commands for BBC, Reuters, NPR, and Al Jazeera. - Clarified workflows for fetching, parsing, and summarizing news headlines, both as text and as short audio using OpenAI TTS. - Included example output format for news summaries, grouped by topic. - Outlined best practices: concise coverage (5–8 stories), balanced perspectives, and citation guidance. - No functional changes to skill logic—documentation only.
Security Scan
Status
suspicious
OpenClaw
gpt-5-mini
OpenClaw analysis
The skill's behavior (fetch RSS feeds and call an OpenAI TTS endpoint) matches its description, but the runtime instructions reference an API key ($OPENAI_API_KEY) that is not declared in the manifest and the skill's source/homepage is unknown — this mismatch warrants caution.
Confidence: medium
VirusTotal
Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: news-summary Version: 1.0.1 The skill bundle is benign. It fetches news from legitimate RSS feeds (BBC, Reuters, NPR, Al Jazeera) using `curl` and processes the content with standard Unix tools (`grep`, `sed`, `head`). It also uses the `$OPENAI_API_KEY` to interact with the OpenAI TTS API for voice summaries, which is a legitimate use case for the skill's stated purpose. There is no evidence of data exfiltration to unauthorized endpoints, malicious execution, persistence mechanisms, or prompt injection attempts in SKILL.md.