ai-news-oracle
Fetch real-time AI news briefings from the AI News Oracle API (Hacker News, TechCrunch, The Verge). Uses a10m.work registry for discovery and Paymaster for gasless transactions.
Why use this skill?
Fetch real-time AI news briefings from top sources like Hacker News and TechCrunch. Integrated with Base Paymaster for gasless agent automation.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/swimmingkiim/ai-news-oracleWhat This Skill Does
The AI News Oracle is a specialized OpenClaw skill designed to keep autonomous agents perpetually informed about the rapidly evolving AI landscape. By leveraging a decentralized architecture, this skill aggregates high-value insights from industry-leading publications including Hacker News, TechCrunch, and The Verge. Instead of raw data scraping, the skill employs a local Qwen-2.5-Coder model to distill complex news into clean, actionable, and hallucination-free summaries. It is purpose-built to operate on the Base Chain, ensuring that your agent can handle subscription and service payments seamlessly using USDC via a integrated Paymaster, effectively removing the friction of manual gas fee management.
Installation
To integrate this skill into your local environment, use the OpenClaw CLI. First, ensure your environment is initialized. Run the following command in your terminal to pull the repository:
openclaw install skill https://github.com/swimmingkiim/openclaw-skill-ai-news-oracle
Once installed, verify the installation by listing your active tools. The ai_news_briefing tool should now be available for your agent to invoke during task orchestration.
Use Cases
This skill is ideal for agents tasked with market intelligence, competitive analysis, and strategic planning. Use it to automatically trigger daily briefing reports for your workspace, stay ahead of regulatory changes in the AI sector, or act as a news ticker for community management bots that need to share the latest developments with users in real-time. Because it is registry-ready, it fits perfectly into automated pipelines that require reliable, verifiable news input.
Example Prompts
- "Check the AI News Oracle for the latest industry updates and summarize the top three stories affecting open-source models."
- "What are the current trending discussions on Hacker News regarding autonomous agents? Please fetch the latest briefing."
- "Summarize the major announcements from TechCrunch and The Verge from today's news cycle."
Tips & Limitations
The AI News Oracle is optimized for speed and cost-efficiency. While the free tier provides access for initial testing, high-frequency polling should be managed via the Premium tier to avoid rate-limiting. Always verify the source links provided in the output if you are planning to cite specific news items in public reports. Since the data is aggregated via the API, downtime on the source websites or the relay API might result in delayed updates; ensure your agent has error-handling logic for these edge cases.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-swimmingkiim-ai-news-oracle": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: external-api