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Opennews

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6551team·vlatest·writing·MIT

Opennews provides curated news summaries and insights from prominent open-source projects, streamlining your understanding of key developments.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add 6551team/opennews-mcp --skill opennews -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

6551team

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: ai.6551.io.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    ai.6551.ioundeclared

    What it found (3 of 21)

    • openclaw-skill/opennews/SKILL.md:76contacts ai.6551.io
      curl -s -X POST "https://ai.6551.io/open/news_search" \
    • openclaw-skill/opennews/SKILL.md:84contacts ai.6551.io
      curl -s -X POST "https://ai.6551.io/open/news_search" \
    • openclaw-skill/opennews/SKILL.md:92contacts ai.6551.io
      curl -s -X POST "https://ai.6551.io/open/news_search" \

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned 6551team/opennews-mcp at e329f36187.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
e329f36187
Manifest
openclaw-skill/opennews/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 483 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The opennews skill provides access to news data and related functionalities. It allows agents to retrieve headlines, summaries, and full articles from various sources. This skill is designed for tasks involving news aggregation, analysis, or summarization.

When to use it

  • News Briefing: Generate a daily summary of top stories in a specific region or on a particular topic.
  • Fact-Checking Assistance: Retrieve relevant news articles to verify claims or statements.
  • Trend Identification: Analyze headlines and article content to identify emerging trends within the news cycle.
  • Content Creation: Use retrieved information as source material for writing blog posts, reports, or social media updates.

Key capabilities

  • Retrieve news headlines
  • Fetch news summaries
  • Access full articles from various sources

Example prompts

  • "Get me the top 5 headlines about climate change."
  • "Summarize the latest article on artificial intelligence in healthcare."
  • "Find a recent news report about the economy in Europe."

Tips & gotchas

The skill's performance depends on the availability and reliability of its underlying news sources. Be aware that news content can be rapidly changing, so results may quickly become outdated.