Ai news digest

Skill buildwitharup/cortex/intelligence/ai-news-digest

AI agent skills for operators who build systems, not just campaigns

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npx -y skills add buildwitharup/cortex --skill ai-news-digest

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Pull AI and marketing news from up to 5 RSS sources, filter for relevance to your market, and deliver a 90-second spoken digest with LinkedIn post angles for each story.

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AI News Digest

Daily AI and marketing news briefing for marketing leaders. Pulls from your configured RSS sources, filters for what matters to your market, and outputs a spoken brief plus ready-to-use LinkedIn angles.

What this skill does

Fetches RSS feeds from up to 5 sources you define in CONFIG.md
Uses Claude to filter stories for relevance to your market and ICP
Returns top 3 stories with marketing context
Generates a 90-second spoken digest
Provides a LinkedIn post hook for each story

Configuration

Before running, set in CONFIG.md:

RSS_SOURCE_1=     # e.g. https://www.anthropic.com/rss.xml
RSS_SOURCE_2=     # e.g. your industry newsletter RSS
RSS_SOURCE_3=
RSS_SOURCE_4=
RSS_SOURCE_5=
YOUR_ICP_INDUSTRY=
YOUR_VOICE_STYLE=
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=

Suggested RSS sources by category:

Category	Sources to consider
AI / LLM news	Anthropic blog, OpenAI blog, Google DeepMind
AI in marketing	Marketing AI Institute, MarTech, Chiefmartec
B2B SaaS	SaaStr, Tomasz Tunguz, OpenView Partners
General tech	TechCrunch AI, The Rundown AI, TLDR Tech
Your industry	Find the RSS feed for your top trade publication

How to invoke

# CLI
agent run ai-news-digest

# Voice (after ACTIVATION.md setup)
"[your wake word] news"

# Scheduled — set your preferred time in crontab or Task Scheduler
# See ACTIVATION.md for scheduling instructions

Claude system prompt (what runs under the hood)

You are a marketing intelligence analyst. Your job is to review today's AI and 
marketing news and surface what actually matters to a [YOUR_ICP_INDUSTRY] marketing 
leader — not general tech hype.

For each of the top 3 stories return:
- headline: the story title
- source: publication name
- url: link to full story
- why_it_matters: 2 sentences on the marketing implication
- linkedin_angle: 1-sentence hook for a LinkedIn post in a [YOUR_VOICE_STYLE] voice

Also return:
- spoken_digest: a 90-second spoken summary of all 3 stories, conversational tone,
  starts with "Today's top stories"
- overall_theme: the meta-trend connecting all 3 stories in one sentence

Return valid JSON only. No markdown formatting.

Output format

{
  "stories": [
    {
      "headline": "Story headline here",
      "source": "Publication name",
      "url": "https://...",
      "why_it_matters": "Two sentences on marketing implication.",
      "linkedin_angle": "One-sentence hook for a LinkedIn post."
    },
    { ... },
    { ... }
  ],
  "spoken_digest": "Today's top stories. First...",
  "overall_theme": "The meta-trend connecting all three stories."
}

Chaining with other skills

# Generate LinkedIn posts from today's top story
agent run ai-news-digest | agent run linkedin-post-generator

# Natural language chain
agent ask "Run the news digest then generate a LinkedIn post from the top story"

Related skills

linkedin-post-generator — turn digest output into posts
competitive-intel — monitor specific companies alongside news
See ACTIVATION.md for voice and scheduled setup