A personalized news engine that learns user interests and delivers formatted briefings directly through your AI agent.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install 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 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 News?
The News skill is a sophisticated curation engine designed to transform how you consume information. By integrating this capability into your AI agent, you can receive highly personalized news briefings that evolve based on your feedback and engagement. This component of the Openclaw Skills library focuses on delivering facts first, citing sources accurately, and maintaining a local memory of your specific interests to ensure every update is relevant.
Built with a privacy-first approach, the News skill stores all user profiles and engagement history locally. It allows for granular control over content proportions, such as balancing technical updates with market analysis, and supports multiple formatting styles ranging from quick bullet points to deep-dive narrative summaries.
News Use Cases
- Creating a customized morning briefing that focuses on 70% AI startups and 30% financial markets.
- Monitoring controversial global events with multi-source reporting to ensure a balanced perspective.
- Automating the tracking of specific niche industries without manual searching by using Openclaw Skills.
- Maintaining a local history of news engagement to refine long-term information discovery.
How News Works
- The AI agent initiates a profile-building phase to identify specific interests, desired formats, and delivery schedules.
- Before generating any content, the system reads from the local memory.md file to ensure alignment with user preferences.
- The skill aggregates data, prioritizing factual occurrences and citing every source by name.
- For contested topics, the agent identifies editorial leanings and presents at least two differing viewpoints.
- The agent logs interactions in history.md and uses this data to suggest profile adjustments, enhancing the utility of Openclaw Skills over time.
News Setup
To get started with this skill, install it via your terminal:
clawhub install news
Next, set up the local directory structure required for the memory system:
mkdir -p ~/news/
touch ~/news/memory.md ~/news/history.md ~/news/sources.md
You can then trigger the initial profile building by asking your agent for a news briefing.
News Data Schema & Taxonomy
The News skill manages data within the ~/news/ directory to maintain persistence across Openclaw Skills sessions:
| File | Description | Content Type |
|---|---|---|
| memory.md | Profile Configuration | Interests, proportions, format, and timing |
| history.md | Engagement Tracking | Record of past briefings and user feedback |
| sources.md | Source Management | Trusted outlets and noted editorial biases |
News Advanced Features
- Context-aware interest weighting for proportional content delivery.
- Automated multi-source verification for high-controversy news items.
- Seamless integration with related Openclaw Skills like
summarizerandscrapefor expanded article analysis. - Privacy-locked local storage ensuring interest profiles never leave the local environment.
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