Tech News Digest
Automate a daily or weekly tech-news digest from RSS, social, GitHub, Reddit, and web search for solo builders who want signal without manual scrolling.
Overview
Tech News Digest is an agent skill most often used in Grow (also Idea, Operate) that collects tech news from six sources and generates quality-scored digests in Discord, email, and markdown.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/draco-agent/tech-news-digest --skill tech-news-digestWhat is this skill?
- Six unified sources: RSS, Twitter/X KOLs, GitHub releases, GitHub Trending, Reddit, and web search
- Pipeline scripts with retry, deduplication, and quality scoring
- Multi-format output: Discord, email, and markdown templates
- Optional backends for Twitter (official/twitterapi.io), Brave/Tavily search, and Reddit APIs
- Requires Python 3; optional mail, gh, WeasyPrint for delivery and PDF
- Six-source data collection model (RSS, Twitter/X KOLs, GitHub releases, GitHub Trending, Reddit, web search)
- Skill version 3.16.2 documented in SKILL.md frontmatter
Adoption & trust: 652 installs on skills.sh; 68 GitHub stars; 1/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You want a consistent tech briefing but lack time to monitor RSS, GitHub, Reddit, X, and the open web manually.
Who is it for?
Indie hackers running a community channel, newsletter, or personal stay-current ritual with configurable API keys and Python 3.
Skip if: Builders who need real-time alerting, legal/compliance-grade newswire ingestion, or a zero-setup SaaS digest with no script maintenance.
When should I use this skill?
You need a unified tech news digest with multi-format output (Discord, email, markdown) from the documented six-source pipeline.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get a deduplicated, scored digest ready to post or email, with a pipeline you can rerun on a cron or agent schedule.
- Scored, deduplicated digest in markdown template form
- Optional Discord or email formatted output from the same run
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Canonical shelf is Grow because the primary payoff is curated content output (Discord, email, markdown) that keeps builders informed after they are shipping. Content subphase fits digest generation, templated publishing, and newsletter-style distribution rather than one-off research notes.
Where it fits
Run a digest to see what shipped in your niche before picking a product direction.
Scan competitor and OSS release noise to tighten MVP scope against market momentum.
Publish the markdown or Discord template as a weekly builder briefing for your audience.
Keep a lightweight industry pulse while maintaining a live product without daily manual reading.
How it compares
Use instead of ad-hoc “summarize my feeds” chat sessions when you want a repeatable six-source pipeline and templated outputs.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is tech-news-digest for?
Solo and indie builders who ship with AI coding agents and want automated tech news digests for themselves, Discord communities, or email lists.
When should I use tech-news-digest?
During Grow to fuel content and community updates; during Idea to scan trends and releases; during Operate when you want a lightweight periodic industry pulse without manual curation.
Is tech-news-digest safe to install?
Review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page and treat optional network API keys (Brave, Tavily, Twitter, Reddit) as secrets you scope and rotate yourself.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Tech News Digest
# Tech News Digest Automated tech news digest system with unified data source model, quality scoring pipeline, and template-based output generation. ## Quick Start 1. **Configuration Setup**: Default configs are in `config/defaults/`. Copy to workspace for customization: ```bash mkdir -p workspace/config cp config/defaults/sources.json workspace/config/tech-news-digest-sources.json cp config/defaults/topics.json workspace/config/tech-news-digest-topics.json ``` 2. **Environment Variables**: - `TWITTERAPI_IO_KEY` - twitterapi.io API key (optional, preferred) - `X_BEARER_TOKEN` - Twitter/X official API bearer token (optional, fallback) - `TAVILY_API_KEY` - Tavily Search API key, alternative to Brave (optional) - `WEB_SEARCH_BACKEND` - Web search backend: auto|brave|tavily (optional, default: auto) - `BRAVE_API_KEYS` - Brave Search API keys, comma-separated f