News Monitor

This skill finds recent news and developments on a topic and delivers a chronological briefing. The focus is on what's new — not a general overview.

Design principle: search results first, fetch sparingly

The news search tool already returns titles, snippets, dates, and sources for each result. That's enough to build most of the briefing without fetching any pages. Only fetch a page when a snippet is too vague to understand what actually happened and you need the full article to write a useful summary. Most of the time, 0–2 fetches is plenty. Never fetch more than 3 pages.

Tools available

News search — the primary tool. Returns results sorted by date with timestamps and source outlets.