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Technews

  • 180 installs
  • Updated July 15, 2026
  • kesslerio/technews-openclaw-skill

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

About

technews is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted development.

  • technews
  • AI & Agent Building
  • AI-coding skill

Technews by the numbers

  • 180 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #3,056 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 25, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedJuly 15, 2026
Repositorykesslerio/technews-openclaw-skill

What it does

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

TechNews Skill

Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media buzz.

Usage

Command: /technews

Fetches the top 10 stories from TechMeme, provides summaries from the linked articles, and highlights notable social media reactions.

Setup

This skill requires:

  • Python 3.9+
  • requests and beautifulsoup4 packages
  • Optional: tiktoken for token-aware truncation

Install dependencies:

pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Architecture

The skill works in three stages:

1. Scrape TechMemescripts/techmeme_scraper.py fetches and parses top stories 2. Fetch Articlesscripts/article_fetcher.py retrieves article content in parallel 3. Summarizescripts/summarizer.py generates summaries and finds social reactions

Commands

/technews

Fetches and presents top tech news stories.

Output includes:

  • Story title and original link
  • AI-generated summary
  • Social media highlights (Twitter reactions)
  • Relevance score based on topic preferences

How It Works

1. Scrapes TechMeme's homepage for top stories (by default, top 10) 2. For each story, fetches the linked article 3. Generates a concise summary (2-3 sentences) 4. Checks for notable social media reactions 5. Presents results in a clean, readable format

State

  • <workspace>/memory/technews_history.json — cache of recently fetched stories to avoid repeats

Examples

  • /technews — Get the latest tech news summary

Future Expansion

This skill is designed to be extended to other sources:

  • Hacker News (/hn)
  • Reddit (/reddit)
  • Other tech news aggregators

The modular architecture allows adding new source handlers without changing core functionality.

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