Skill: teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-news (version 1.0.0)

--- name: pilot-service-agents-news description: > News feeds, forum aggregators, and current-events streams — Hacker News, dev.to, GDELT, Reddit, Stack Exchange, USGS hazards. Use this skill when: 1. Pulling current tech news / top stories (HN top/new, Lobsters, dev.to) 2. Searching discussion archives (HN Algolia, Stack Exchange) 3. Monitoring real-time events — hurricanes, earthquakes, spaceflight news Do NOT use this skill when: - Mainstream press articles (not in catalogue — use an external news API) - Scholarly literature (use pilot-service-agents-academic) - Sports scores (use pilot-service-agents-sports) tags: - pilot-protocol - service-agents - news - current-events license: AGPL-3.0 compatibility: > Requires pilot-protocol skill, pilotctl binary on PATH, a running daemon joined to network 9 (data-exchange), and the `list-agents` directory agent reachable on the overlay. metadata: author: vulture-labs version: "1.0" openclaw: requires: bins: - pilotctl homepage: https://pilotprotocol.network allowed-tools: - Bash --- # pilot-service-agents-news News feeds, forum aggregators, and current-events streams — Hacker News, dev.to, GDELT, Reddit, Stack Exchange, USGS hazards. All agents in this category follow the standard contract described in `pilot-service-agents`. Send `/help` to any agent to read its exact filter schema — the table below is a snapshot; the catalogue grows, so always verify with a fresh `list-agents` query. ## Agents in this category (snapshot) | Hostname | Description | |---|---| | `dev-to-articles` | dev.to article feed / search | | `gdelt-context-api` | GDELT Context 2.0 - global event context data | | `hackernews-jobstories` | Hacker News — job postings feed | | `hackernews-newstories` | Hacker News — newest stories | | `hn-algolia-search` | HN Algolia search | | `hn-item` | HN item by id | | `hn-top` | HN top stories list | | `lemmy-posts` | Lemmy Posts | | `lobsters-hottest` | Lobsters Hottest | | `mediawiki-featured` | Mediawiki Featured | | `noaa-nhc-storms` | NOAA National Hurricane Center - active tropical storms | | `openbrewerydb-breweries` | OpenBreweryDB - worldwide brewery directory | | `openlibrary-trending` | Openlibrary Trending | | `reddit-public-sub` | Reddit public subreddit feed (JSON) | | `spaceflight-news-articles` | Spaceflight news aggregator (articles) | | `spaceflight-news-blogs` | Spaceflight news aggregator (blogs) | | `stackexchange-questions` | Stack Overflow questions | | `usgs-earthquakes` | USGS real-time global earthquake feed | | `wayback-available` | Wayback Machine snapshot lookup | ## What you can expect - Low-latency feeds of developer/tech content - Archive.org Wayback and GDELT global-events context - Public subreddit and Lemmy-community feeds (no auth) ## What NOT to expect - Paywalled or syndicated press content - Full-text rich media — feeds return titles/URLs/snippets ## Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category) ```bash # Read an agent's filter contract pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data "/help" pilotctl --json inbox # Fetch structured data pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/data {json filters}' pilotctl --json inbox # Natural-language summary (Gemini) pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/summary {json filters}' pilotctl --json inbox ``` ## Response shape `send-message` returns an ACK envelope immediately (`{"ack":"ACK TEXT N bytes", "bytes":N, "target":"<address>", "type":"text"}`). The **actual agent response** arrives a few seconds later and is read with `pilotctl --json inbox`. Each inbox entry carries the agent's normalised envelope in its `data` field: ```json { "source": "<hostname>", "items": [...], "count": <int>, "total": <int|null>, "page": <int|null>, "next": <cursor|null>, "truncated": <bool>, "upstream_url": "<resolved upstream URL>" } ``` `/help` returns plain text. `/summary` returns a Gemini-generated prose string. Free-text queries also return Gemini prose. ## Workflow Example ```bash # 1. Fresh discovery — the catalogue grows, never hard-code pilotctl --json send-message list-agents --data '/data {"category":"news","limit":20}' pilotctl --json inbox # 2. Read the contract of a specific agent pilotctl --json send-message hn-top --data '/help' pilotctl --json inbox # 3. Query it pilotctl --json send-message hn-top --data '/data {"limit":10}' pilotctl --json inbox ``` ## Dependencies Requires the `pilot-protocol` core skill, the `pilot-service-agents` skill (for the general discovery flow), `pilotctl` on PATH, and a running daemon joined to network 9.

path: README.md
content: # Service Agents — News

News feeds, forum aggregators, and current-events streams — Hacker News, dev.to, GDELT, Reddit, Stack Exchange, USGS hazards.

**Category:** Data Sources | **License:** AGPL-3.0

## Install

```bash
clawhub install pilot-service-agents-news
```

## Requirements

- [Pilot Protocol](https://pilotprotocol.network) daemon running (`pilotctl daemon start`)
- `pilotctl` binary on PATH
- Daemon joined to network 9 (`pilotctl --json network join 9`)
- `list-agents` directory agent reachable on the overlay

## Tags

`pilot-protocol`, `service-agents`, `news`, `current-events`

## Documentation

See [SKILL.md](SKILL.md) for the full skill definition including commands, examples, and error handling.

## Links

- [ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/teoslayer/pilot-service-agents-news)
- [Pilot Protocol](https://pilotprotocol.network)
- [All Skills](https://teoslayer.github.io/pilot-skills/)


Security scan verdicts — ClawScan: clean | static analysis: clean | VirusTotal: clean | SkillSpector: clean (LOW)