news-digest SKILL.md skillA
news-digest from openhands/extensions is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add openhands/extensions/news-digest@git:20261027.f79208bPins git:20261027.f79208b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- openhands/extensions
- Path
skills/news-digest/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261027.f79208b, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,646 bytes
- Repository stars
- 179
- License
- MIT
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, on a local Agent Canvas, the conversation is started with no secrets and no MCP servers.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# News Digest
This automation now runs from the executable automation plugin at `plugins/news-digest`. Do not copy or package code from `skills/news-digest`; the skill is only a setup guide for creating the plugin-spec automation.
## Create with the plugin-spec endpoint
Use `POST /api/automation/v1/plugin-spec` with this plugin source:
```json
{
"source": "github:OpenHands/extensions",
"repo_path": "plugins/news-digest",
"ref": "main"
}
```
`ref` is `main` while this plugin layout is unreleased. After an `openhands-extensions` release includes this plugin, prefer the matching release tag, for example `v<extensions-version>`. If setup code can inspect the installed package version, parameterize this value as `v{version('openhands-extensions')}`; otherwise default to `main`.
For local Agent Canvas development from this checkout, use a local source instead:
```json
{
"source": "/absolute/path/to/OpenHands/extensions",
"repo_path": "plugins/news-digest"
}
```
## Request template
```json
{
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add openhands/extensions/news-digest@sha256:d33d647fc885196dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.f79208b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3bgy2m355h4jtmlp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 20, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.f79208b latest | 2026-10-27 | f79208b | 2,646 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.6ffd7e1 | 2026-10-02 | 6ffd7e1 | 12,909 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.b4e3c66 | 2026-08-20 | b4e3c66 | 12,278 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2646 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 · 179 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · 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/d33d647fc885196db33a47c86c772c089b90d10f81bef20cf423bd7d81bb0b43
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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