Fetch News Skill

Use this skill at the start of every sweep. It queries two public sources — no account, credentials, or API key required for either — and owns the cross-run dedupe state:

• Google News RSS (news.google.com) — a search feed per topic plus a headline feed per genre (WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SCIENCE, SPORTS, HEALTH)
• Hacker News via the Algolia search API (hn.algolia.com) — stories and comments per topic, for the community-buzz angle
• Medium RSS (medium.com) — long-form posts per tag from interests.json's medium_tags, for the practitioner-writing angle

Usage

python3 skills/fetch-news/scripts/fetch_news.py