theshort-news (OpenClaw skill)

Read access to theshort.ai's curated news index for any agent running on OpenClaw. Authenticated by API key (X-API-Key header), billed in credits against the developer account that owns the key. The skill exposes topic-scoped search, tag-scoped search, full article details, and the topic / tag catalogs the key has access to.

When to use this skill

• The user is asking about something that happened recently and the model's built-in knowledge is likely stale.
• The user wants a one-line or one-paragraph summary of a news event.
• The agent needs to ground a longer answer in real, attributable sources with canonicalUrl links.
• The user is asking about trending stories in a given topic (politics, finance, tech, etc.) or geography (country / region).