An automated AI agent skill designed to discover, fetch, clean, summarize, and deliver daily tech and semiconductor news directly to your inbox.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install tech-news-brief
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 tech-news-brief 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 Tech News Brief AI Agent?
The Tech News Brief is an advanced automated curation and reporting skill designed for AI agents. It implements a robust multi-phase pipeline that scans premium technology sources across several dimensions—focusing heavily on AI breakthroughs, semiconductor industry shifts, and geopolitical tech policies. By prioritizing fresh information (restricted to the last 5 days), this skill ensures you never miss critical developments while ignoring low-value buzz.
Built to function seamlessly in a single dialogue session, this skill integrates sophisticated browser-based scraping with automated data cleaning, translation, and structured summarization. It compiles polished Markdown and Microsoft Word (DOCX) reports from custom styling templates, packages them into a clean archive, and delivers them directly to a target email address via SMTP. It is one of the most comprehensive workflow-oriented Openclaw Skills available.
Tech News Brief AI Agent Use Cases
- Automated Daily Intelligence Gathering: Schedule daily runs to track cutting-edge updates on large language models (LLMs), semiconductors, and AI safety.
- Executive Briefing Production: Generate highly standardized, professional PDF/DOCX summaries for organizational newsletters and decision-makers without manual copy-pasting.
- Geopolitical & Strategic Tech Analysis: Keep a pulse on US-China tech friction, export controls, and regulatory policy shifts using curated search criteria.
How Tech News Brief AI Agent Works
- Multi-Dimensional Discovery: Executes a layered search strategy (8 to 12 targeted queries) across top-tier Chinese and global tech outlets with custom time-anchors (e.g., 'today', 'last 3 days').
- Dynamic Scraping (Browser MCP): Employs a Browser Model Context Protocol (MCP) engine to navigate Vue/React dynamic pages, extracting complete page text, with a fallback option powered by Firecrawl.
- Quality & Length Validation: Filters out stub articles below 300 words to ensure only substantial, high-quality news enters the pipeline.
- Context Cleaning: Scrubs page boilerplate (ads, headers, footers, recommendations, external links) leaving pure, distraction-free editorial content.
- Draft Writing: Commits the clean content into organized daily Markdown files with precise structural metadata.
- Strict Summarization: Uses a dual-iron-clad system to generate concise summaries (under 400 words) and headlines (under 30 words) free of unnecessary structural line breaks.
- DOCX Exporting: Converts Markdown drafts into professional Word documents utilizing specialized template layouts.
- Archiving & SMTP Dispatch: Compresses the reports into a ZIP archive, emails them to designated recipients via SMTP SSL, and securely purges the temporary local archive.
Tech News Brief AI Agent Setup
Environment Configuration
To run the tech-news-brief skill, configure these environment variables in your Openclaw Skills runtime environment:
export SMTP_SENDER="[email protected]"
export SMTP_PASSWD="your-smtp-app-authorization-code"
export SMTP_TO="[email protected]"
export REPORTS_DIR="/path/to/save/reports"
# Optional fallback API key for Firecrawl
export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY="fc-YOUR_API_KEY"
Running Dependencies
Ensure Python 3 is installed along with the required libraries:
pip install python-docx lxml
Tech News Brief AI Agent Data Schema & Taxonomy
Directory and File Layout
All generated reports are structured under the specified {REPORTS_DIR} directory by date in YYYYMMDD format:
| File Type | Naming Template | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Original Draft (MD) | {YYYYMMDD}xx班-科技新闻原文{Index}-sml.md |
Cleaned source article with metadata and source URL |
| Original Draft (DOCX) | {YYYYMMDD}xx班-科技新闻原文{Index}-sml.docx |
Formatted Word document of the source article |
| Summary Draft (MD) | {YYYYMMDD}xx班-科技新闻摘要{Index}-sml.md |
Standardized summary with value metrics and structured tags |
| Summary Draft (DOCX) | {YYYYMMDD}xx班-科技新闻摘要{Index}-sml.docx |
Formatted Word document of the structured summary |
Metadata Structure
The summary Markdown file utilizes a strict schema:
拟投栏目：[Column Name (e.g., 热点舆情 / 重要信息 / 建言献策)]
事件时间：YYYY年M月D日
价值点：[~80-char core value proposition statement]
[Headline: <= 30 chars, single line]
[Body: <= 400 chars, single paragraph summarizing context, key data, analysis, and outlook]
[Footnote: Academic/Department, Author, Contact (Source, Date)]
Tech News Brief AI Agent Advanced Features
- Dual Scraping Path with Failover: Prioritizes rendering dynamics via Browser MCP and automatically falls back to Firecrawl API if scraping fails.
- Strict Multi-Phase Validation: Self-checks generated headlines (≤30 chars) and summary bodies (≤400 chars, no line breaks) before file emission.
- Custom Document Templating: Integrates natively with
template-original.docxandtemplate-summary.docxtemplates to generate corporate-grade styling automatically. - Automatic Local Housekeeping: Packages and transmits sensitive reports before instantly deleting intermediate ZIP files to avoid system storage bloat.
- Cron Resilience: Built with safety nets to recover from unexpected session timeouts and clean leftover
.tick.lockcron obstacles.
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