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rss-digest
GitHub该技能通过curl抓取并解析RSS/Atom订阅源，生成去重、按时间排序的简报。它提取内容摘要而非仅标题，支持跨源去重和自定义时间窗口过滤，无需API密钥即可提供结构化的每日资讯摘要。
Trigger Scenarios
用户要求总结某个Feed或博客的最新内容
用户请求从多个来源构建晨间简报
用户询问特定网站或话题的最新动态
Install
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rss-digest -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "rss-digest",
"description": "Fetch and digest any RSS or Atom feed with zero API keys — curl plus disciplined parsing into a ranked, deduplicated briefing instead of a link dump. Use when asked summarize this feed, what's new on this blog, digest these RSS feeds, or build me a morning briefing from these sources. Produces the digest with dates and one-line what-it-is summaries, cross-feed dedup, and the rerunnable commands per feed."
}
RSS Digest Skill
RSS never died — every blog, newsroom, podcast, release page, and status page still speaks it, keylessly, and it remains the cleanest way for an agent to answer "what's new from the sources I care about." This skill fetches feeds with curl, parses the two dialects (RSS 2.0 and Atom) without ceremony, and produces what the user actually wanted: a dated, deduplicated briefing with one line of substance per item — not thirty titles.
What This Skill Produces
- The digest — items with date, source, title, and a one-line what-it-actually-says from the item's own description
- Cross-feed dedup — the same story via three feeds appears once, sources noted
- The since-filter — "what's new" means since the user last asked or a stated window, applied
- The commands — one curl per feed, rerunnable
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The feed URLs — or the site ("find the feed" is part of the job: try
/feed,/rss,/atom.xml,/index.xml, and the<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">tag in the page head) - The window — today, this week, since a date — "what's new" needs an epoch
- The lens — everything, or filtered to a topic; a briefing has a reader, and the reader has interests
Framework: Fetch, Parse, Digest
- The fetch:
curl -sL "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"— follow redirects (-L), and identify politely if a feed rejects default agents (-A "rss-digest/1.0"). Feeds are XML; both dialects carry the same essentials: RSS<item><title><link><pubDate><description>· Atom<entry><title><link href><updated><summary/content>. - Parse without heroics: items are extracted with straightforward pattern-matching on those tags; HTML inside descriptions gets stripped to text; entities decoded. Malformed feeds (common) get a best-effort parse and an honest note, not a crash or silent gaps.
- The one-line rule: each item's line comes from its description/summary content — what the piece actually says — not a restatement of its title. When the description is empty or useless, say what can be said from the title and mark it thin; fetch the full article only if the user asks for a deep-dive on an item.
- Dedup and order: same-story detection across feeds by normalized title/URL similarity; ordering is newest-first within the window, or grouped by source when the user's mental model is per-source.
- Honest dating:
pubDate/updatedconverted to the user's zone; items without dates are labeled undated, not invisibly slotted; and the digest states its own window ("covering the last 48h as of [time]").
Output Format
Digest: [N sources] — [window], as of [time]
[If a lens was set: the matching items first.]
[Source A]
- [date] [title] — [one line of what it says] ([link]) […]
[Duplicates noted: "also covered by X, Y" · thin-description items marked]
Feeds: [curl per feed] · window: [the since-filter applied]
Quality Checks
- Every item line summarizes the description, not the title
- The window is stated and applied — no undated "new"
- Cross-feed duplicates are merged with sources noted
- Malformed feeds produce a note, not silent item loss
- Feed discovery was attempted when given a bare site URL
Anti-Patterns
- Do not output a link dump — the one-line-of-substance rule is the product
- Do not restate titles as summaries — the description field exists; use it or mark the item thin
- Do not fetch every full article by default — the feed's own content first, deep-dives on request
- Do not present an old cached item as new — the window does the filtering, visibly
- Do not invent a feed's contents when the fetch fails — report the failure and move to the sources that answered
Version History
- 54fad50 Current 2026-07-19 13:04
