agenttimes

What This Skill Does

Agent Times is a sophisticated news aggregation and search tool designed specifically for AI agents. It leverages a robust index of 5,355 RSS feeds across 55 distinct categories, refreshing every 3 minutes. At its core, the tool employs AI-driven semantic embeddings via a Qdrant vector database, enabling it to understand the conceptual meaning behind user queries rather than relying solely on keyword matching. With a database of over 69,000 articles and a 30-day retention window, it ensures that your AI agents remain informed with the latest global developments. If database results are scarce, the tool intelligently falls back to a massive web search engine integration (70+ engines), ensuring you always receive actionable data.

Installation

To integrate this capability into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal or command-line interface: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/angpenghian/agenttimes Once installed, the tool is immediately accessible as an API endpoint, requiring no initial API key configuration for free services.

Use Cases

• Real-time Market Intelligence: Use the /trending endpoint to identify fast-moving news cycles that require urgent agent intervention or analysis.
• Targeted Research: Utilize the /ask endpoint to conduct semantic searches on specific topics, such as "emerging regulatory trends in AI," allowing the agent to synthesize findings from broad news sources.
• Automated Reporting: Integrate the /news?category=... endpoints into automated workflows to generate periodic industry digests for stakeholders.
• Geopolitical Monitoring: Since there are no specific country categories, users can rely on the semantic power of /ask to monitor regional news by querying specific locations, e.g., "Japan economic updates."

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current trending stories in the technology sector and provide a one-sentence summary for each."
2. "Search for the latest developments regarding semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan."
3. "Fetch the latest updates from the crypto category for a market analysis report."

Tips & Limitations

For optimal results, prioritize the /ask endpoint for natural language queries and general search. If you are specifically building a category-based dashboard, utilize the /news endpoint, keeping in mind that this requires x402 micropayments on the Base network. When queries return empty results, check the suggestions field provided in the API response, which offers related terms and relevant categories to help refine your search strategy. Note that the 30-day retention means historical searches beyond one month are not supported by the news database.