ai-news SKILL.md skillA
ai-news from letta-ai/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add letta-ai/skills/ai-news@git:20260316.2512e61Pins git:20260316.2512e61 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- letta-ai/skills
- Path
tools/ai-news/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260316.2512e61, committed Mar 16, 2026
- Size
- 2,331 bytes
- Repository stars
- 152
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Fetch and summarize recent AI news from curated RSS feeds (Hugging Face, VentureBeat, The Verge, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, etc.) and YouTube channels (Yannic Kilcher, Two Minute Papers, AI Explained, etc.). Also fetches full transcripts for specific YouTube videos. Use when the user asks about recent AI news, what's happened in AI lately, summaries of AI research or product announcements, or wants a digest of what's going on in the AI space.
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
# AI News Fetch recent AI news from RSS feeds and YouTube channel feeds, then synthesize into a digest. Optionally fetch full transcripts for YouTube videos. ## Setup (one-time) ```bash cd ~/.letta/skills/ai-news/scripts && npm install ``` ## Workflow ### 1. Fetch recent news ```bash npx tsx scripts/fetch-news.ts [--days 7] [--limit 5] [--sources all|rss|youtube] ``` - Outputs a JSON object with `items[]` sorted newest-first - Each item has: `source`, `type` (rss/youtube), `title`, `url`, `publishedAt`, `summary`, `videoId` - Failed sources are listed in `errors[]` — safe to ignore individual failures ### 2. Synthesize a digest Read the JSON output and write a digest grouped by theme (e.g. model releases, research, tools, policy). Lead with the most significant items. For YouTube videos, note they have transcripts available. ### 3. (Optional) Fetch a video transcript For any YouTube item worth deeper coverage: ```bash npx tsx scripts/fetch-transcript.ts <video-url-or-id> [--summary] [--lang en] ``` - `--summary` returns first ~4000 chars (good for quick context) - Without `--summary`, returns full transcript + timestamped segments …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add letta-ai/skills/ai-news@sha256:6fece445dfcdfae3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260316.2512e61, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
letta-ai/skills · 152 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nfxvoq5qtnp4wqcf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=letta-ai/skills/ai-news GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6fece445dfcdfae366fcadde38c1caf3c5decc59a267977afb1080eab4007cd7
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