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ai-news

This skill fetches recent AI news from curated RSS feeds and YouTube channels, then outputs structured data for synthesizing digests.

by LettaOfficial publisher

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Agents
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode
License
MIT (permissive)
Pin
6785511pinned Oct 9, 2026
Context cost
about 460 tokenswhen the skill loads
GitHub stars
148on letta-ai/skills
Scripts
4 scripts

What it does

“Fetch and summarize recent AI news from curated RSS feeds (Hugging Face, VentureBeat, The Verge, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, etc.) and YouTube channels (Yannic Kilcher, Two Minute Papers, AI Explained, etc.). Also fetches full transcripts for specific YouTube videos. Use when the user asks about recent AI news, what's happened in AI lately, summaries of AI research or product announcements, or wants a digest of what's going on in the AI space.”
The author's description, from SKILL.md

Generated summary from the skill's own text

This skill fetches recent AI news from curated RSS feeds and YouTube channels, then outputs structured data for synthesizing digests. It also retrieves full transcripts from YouTube videos for deeper analysis of specific content.

When to use it

  • User asks about recent AI news or product announcements
  • User wants a weekly or daily digest of AI developments
  • User requests a YouTube video transcript for detailed coverage
  • User needs summaries of AI research announcements from major labs

When not to

  • User seeks real-time stock prices or financial data about AI companies
  • User needs historical news older than available feed archives
  • User wants news from non-English sources or non-tech publications

Install

These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.

skills CLI

npx skills add letta-ai/skills --skill ai-news

Installs from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.

GitHub CLI 2.90 or later

gh skill install letta-ai/skills ai-news@6785511e7d3913d9ec598435a77ae637cd45fc89

Installs the commit we checked (6785511).

Copy by hand

Download the folder at 6785511 and put it in .claude/skills/ai-news for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/ai-news for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

Skill folder on GitHub at 6785511

Copy for your agent

A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.

Prompt

Install the agent skill "ai-news" by Letta.

Source, pinned to commit 6785511e7d3913d9ec598435a77ae637cd45fc89:
https://github.com/letta-ai/skills/tree/6785511e7d3913d9ec598435a77ae637cd45fc89/tools/ai-news

1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch.
2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/ai-news/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/ai-news/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist.
3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to.
4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them.

Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/letta/ai-news

SKILL.md at the pin

---
name: ai-news
description: Fetch and summarize recent AI news from curated RSS feeds (Hugging Face, VentureBeat, The Verge, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, etc.) and YouTube channels (Yannic Kilcher, Two Minute Papers, AI Explained, etc.). Also fetches full transcripts for specific YouTube videos. Use when the user asks about recent AI news, what's happened in AI lately, summaries of AI research or product announcements, or wants a digest of what's going on in the AI space.
---

# AI News

Fetch recent AI news from RSS feeds and YouTube channel feeds, then synthesize into a digest. Optionally fetch full transcripts for YouTube videos.

## Setup (one-time)

```bash
cd ~/.letta/skills/ai-news/scripts && npm install
```

## Workflow

### 1. Fetch recent news

```bash
npx tsx scripts/fetch-news.ts [--days 7] [--limit 5] [--sources all|rss|youtube]
```

- Outputs a JSON object with `items[]` sorted newest-first
- Each item has: `source`, `type` (rss/youtube), `title`, `url`, `publishedAt`, `summary`, `videoId`
- Failed sources are listed in `errors[]` — safe to ignore individual failures

### 2. Synthesize a digest

Read the JSON output and write a digest grouped by theme (e.g. model releases, research, tools, policy). Lead with the most significant items. For YouTube videos, note they have transcripts available.

### 3. (Optional) Fetch a video transcript

For any YouTube item worth deeper coverage:

```bash
npx tsx scripts/fetch-transcript.ts <video-url-or-id> [--summary] [--lang en]
```

- `--summary` returns first ~4000 chars (good for quick context)
- Without `--summary`, returns full transcript + timestamped segments
- Works with any YouTube URL format or bare video ID

## Customizing Sources

See `references/sources.md` for the full list of default RSS feeds and YouTube channels, how to find channel IDs, and additional feed recommendations.

To add/remove sources, edit the `RSS_FEEDS` and `YOUTUBE_CHANNELS` arrays at the top of `scripts/fetch-news.ts`.

## Tips

- Use `--days 1` for daily briefings, `--days 7` for weekly digests
- Use `--sources rss` if YouTube fetches are slow or failing
- Some feeds (arXiv) can be very high volume — use a lower `--limit` or filter by keyword after fetching
- Transcripts require captions to be enabled on the video; auto-generated captions work fine

From letta-ai/skills at 6785511, shown as plain text under its license: MIT (permissive). The license text is in tools/ai-news/LICENSE.

View SKILL.md on GitHub at 6785511

Files

7 files, 20 KB in total. Each file has a sha256 in the pin's manifest; the first 12 characters are shown.

Skill folder on GitHub at 6785511
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