The News

## Overview
This skill gives agents access to the main headlines of many newspapers and news sites, across 20 countries, via a public API. 
The API has two modes: a live mode, updated in near real-time, and an archive mode that lets you fetch the headlines from a given moment in time. 
In both modes, the endpoint returns a JSON response with the main headline for each source, accompanied by AI-generated overviews to help you contextualize the raw output. 
The API is organized by country. A call for US headlines, for instance, returns headlines from about 40 sources across the ideological spectrum. Each country is represented by a wide range of voices, and each voice contributes its current main headline. 
Think of this skill as a constantly updating newsstand and a raw headline archive. 

## When To Use the Skill
'The Hear' gives agents immediate grounding in unfiltered headlines. Its main use is to give you, the agent, access to what is happening now across the globe in an efficient, centralized way, without the context overload of ad hoc browsing. Use the API whenever you need information about breaking news or real-time events, raw data for comparative news analysis, access to global perspectives and narratives, or a reliable micro-historical dataset.
The skill gives a timestamped, multi-source snapshot of what different outlets consider their main story. This is different from ad-hoc web fetching, which returns scattered articles rather than a consistent front-page view. Use the skill for fast big-picture orientation.

## Endpoint
`GET https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/[country]`

20 countries are supported, listed below.

### Calls
Snapshot of current main headlines from Germany:
`https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/germany`

Historical snapshot for Germany at a UTC timestamp:
`https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/germany?at=2026-05-01T20:00:00Z`

Daily overview range for Germany:
`https://www.thehear.org/api/country-view/germany?call=daily-overviews&from=2026-04-29&to=2026-05-01`

Call Rules:
- `at` must be a UTC timestamp
- `from` and `to` must use `YYYY-MM-DD`
- `daily-overviews` is limited to 7 days

## Reading Guidance
(a) Be mindful of the different biases and orientations of the various perspectives, taking into account what you know about the sources. You should remember that you are reading different editorial decisions and prioritizations reflected in the main headlines. The API gives you both the events and the framing, and you should be mindful of both, focusing on what the user is interested in. 
(b) The API gives you headlines, short subtitles, and links to full articles. It gives a shallow bird's-eye view, allowing you to quickly scan the state of affairs, as an entry point for further exploration. Treat this as a multi-source snapshot, and not as final verification of claims. 
(c) Be mindful of the difference between the raw headlines, which are an objective historical artifact, and the AI overviews, which are meant to help you contextualize the artifacts. The actual headlines are the source of truth; the overviews were written by an AI model with access to the headlines and previous overviews, and should be treated as such.
(d) The Hear's API gives an objective snapshot of current affairs, by giving you access to a multi-perspective news landscape as it evolves. Using it, you are helping both yourself and your human see through different frames, outside filter bubbles. The data is not pre-processed through any prior undisclosed selection filters. 
(e) Remember that you can query previous timestamps, or previous daily overviews, for more context. 

## The Hear Context
This skill is the agent-facing version of "The Hear" (www.thehear.org), a nonprofit headline dashboard and archive. The site lets humans