Feeds

RSS news aggregator. Fetches all current entries from curated feeds across three categories — news, games, and finance. Concurrent fetching, streamed JSON output. No API key needed.

Constraint

Do NOT use web search, WebFetch, browser tools, or any other URL-fetching tool when this skill is active. The RSS feeds are the sole data source. Do not supplement, verify, or expand results with external searches. Do not fetch article URLs — summaries are already included in the output.

Categories

Detect the category from the user's message:

• "news", "headlines", "nachrichten", "tech news" → news
• "finance", "markets", "money", "stocks", "economy" → finance
• "games", "gaming" → games

| Category | Feeds | Sources | |----------|-------|---------| | news | 21 | Ars Technica, Wired, TechCrunch, The Verge, NYT, Heise, Quanta, Aeon, Nautilus, and more | | games | 10 | GameStar, GamesGlobal, PC Gamer, Polygon, Kotaku, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz | | finance | 26 | Bloomberg, WSJ, FT, CNBC, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, The Economist, Forbes, CoinDesk, Fed, ECB |

Feed lists are defined in scripts/lists.py.

How to Invoke

Run one invocation per category. Run multiple if the user asks for more than one.

python3 scripts/feeds.py --category news
python3 scripts/feeds.py --category games
python3 scripts/feeds.py --category finance

Output Format

The script streams a JSON array. The first element is metadata, the rest are entries:

[{"category": "news", "total_entries": 142, "sources": ["aeon.co", "arstechnica.com"], "fetched_at": "2026-01-31 22:00:00"}
,{"title": "Headline Here", "url": "https://example.com/article", "source": "arstechnica.com", "date": "Fri, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT", "summary": "Brief summary text..."}
]

| Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | title | Headline text | | url | Link to full article | | source | Domain name of the feed source | | date | Publication date as provided by the feed | | summary | Brief description, HTML stripped, max 500 chars |

CLI Reference

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | -c, --category | Feed category: news, games, or finance (required) |

Presenting Results

After parsing the output, present a structured, concise rundown:

1. Group by theme — cluster related stories under headings (e.g. "Tech & Industry", "Science", "Markets", "Crypto")
2. Keep it tight — headline + one-line summary + source attribution per item
3. Link to sources — use markdown links so the user can read more
4. Deduplicate — if multiple feeds cover the same story, mention it once and note cross-source coverage
5. Highlight big stories — if a story appears across 3+ sources, call it out prominently

Example output:

### Tech & Industry
- **[Headline](url)** — One-line summary *(Source)*
- **[Headline](url)** — One-line summary *(Source)*

### Science
- **[Headline](url)** — One-line summary *(Source)*

Edge Cases

• Failed or timed-out feeds (15s timeout) are silently skipped — remaining feeds still return results.
• If zero entries are returned, the script exits with {"error": "No entries found", "category": "..."}.
• Some entries may lack summaries — they will still have title, URL, and source.