news-digest skillA
news-digest is agent-read markdown (skill) from openhands/extensions: Create an automation that reads a list of public RSS and Atom feeds on a schedule - daily by default - keeps what is new and matches the configured topics, and has an agent write a short digest of it. It needs no credentials: the feeds are public URLs and the conversation is started with no secrets and no MCP servers..
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What the file says
# Daily News Digest Automation Create a cron automation that turns a list of feeds into something worth reading: a few hundred words a day on what happened in the topics you care about, with a link under each item. **It connects to nothing.** There is no token to issue, no account to link, no OAuth screen. That makes it the automation to run first - it exercises the schedule, the conversation, the model and the run log end to end while nothing of yours is at stake, and it is useful in its own right afterwards. The script is deterministic: the schedule, the once-a-day claim, fetching, parsing, the freshness window, and remembering what has already been covered are all Python. The LLM is invoked only for the part that is judgement - reading the shortlist and writing something that is not just the headlines pasted back. **When nothing new matches, no conversation is started at all**, so a quiet day costs no tokens. --- ## Prerequisites None. That is the point. The runtime needs outbound HTTPS to the feed hosts, which it already has if it can reach the model. Nothing is read from **Settings -> Secrets**, and nothing needs to be added there. --- ## Setup Workflow …
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How to install
mdr add openhands/extensions/news-digest@git:20260820.b4e3c66mdr add openhands/extensions/news-digest@sha256:833aace23ab5b4a5Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12278 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
openhands/extensions · 150 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3bgy2m355h4jtmlp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=openhands/extensions/news-digest GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/833aace23ab5b4a5fc44aec71962d1cc0ae88172c4c7659052b3c7f1ada9cf5c
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