An automated news monitoring skill that provides organized access to Fox News sections, live updates, and official RSS feeds with structured briefing formats.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install fox-news
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install fox-news using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Fox News Monitor?
The Fox News Monitor is a specialized tool for AI agents that streamlines news consumption from one of the most prominent media outlets. As part of the ecosystem of Openclaw Skills, it allows users to automate the monitoring of politics, business, and world news while maintaining a clear distinction between straight reporting and opinion pieces. This skill is designed for developers and power users who need deterministic section sweeps, live event tracking, and the ability to verify reporting with outside sources for a balanced perspective.
By leveraging official RSS routes and section-based mapping, this skill ensures that your AI agent provides accurate, timestamped, and highly relevant news data. It emphasizes local data persistence for user preferences, ensuring that your news consumption habits remain private and customizable while utilizing high-performance Openclaw Skills capabilities.
Fox News Monitor Use Cases
- Automated daily briefings from specific Fox News sections like Politics, Business, or U.S. news.
- Monitoring breaking news events and rolling live updates in real-time for immediate situational awareness.
- Generating concise article summaries while maintaining a strict separation between editorial opinion and factual reporting.
- Cross-referencing Fox News headlines with independent sources for balanced research using Openclaw Skills.
- Archiving news history and fetch timestamps for long-term media analysis and auditing.
How Fox News Monitor Works
- The agent identifies the primary Fox News surface required, such as the homepage, a specific section feed, or a live video page.
- It utilizes Openclaw Skills fetch logic to pull data from official endpoints like moxie.foxnews.com for deterministic XML feed results.
- The skill categorizes each retrieved item by type—reporting, live coverage, or opinion—to ensure the user understands the nature of the content.
- Timestamps are applied to every headline or clip to distinguish between fresh breaking news and historical recap data.
- If the user has configured source-balancing, the skill automatically identifies independent confirmation for the story before finalizing the output.
- The resulting briefing is either displayed in chat or persisted to the local briefs directory for later reference.
Fox News Monitor Setup
First, ensure you have curl and python3 installed on your system. These are required for the fetch and processing logic utilized by Openclaw Skills.
# Install the skill via your preferred manager
clawhub install fox-news
# Initialize the setup to define preferred sections and balance settings
cat ~/fox-news/setup.md
Follow the instructions in the setup file to lock your activation scope. You will need to grant explicit permission before the skill saves recurring preferences to your local filesystem in the ~/fox-news/ directory.
Fox News Monitor Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data within the ~/fox-news/ directory to maintain local state and ensure your Openclaw Skills experience is personalized:
| File/Folder | Purpose |
|---|---|
memory.md |
Stores activation scope, preferred news sections, and source-balance defaults. |
sources.md |
Tracks approved Fox surfaces and provides detailed section mapping for the agent. |
runs.md |
Records fetch timestamps, live-event notes, and historical follow-up activity. |
briefs/ |
A dedicated directory for saving and archiving briefings requested by the user. |
Fox News Monitor Advanced Features
- Source-balancing logic that automatically suggests independent corroboration for complex or controversial reporting.
- Support for high-volume read previews to prevent the agent from overloading the context window with too many links.
- Deterministic RSS sweeping for highly reliable and repeatable section monitoring without manual scraping.
- Local persistence of briefing history and preferences for highly tailored Openclaw Skills interactions.
- Automated labeling system to keep straight-news reporting and opinion pieces clearly separated in every output.
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