Card news

Skill jiahongc/credit-card-skills/.claude/skills/card-news

Agent Skills suite for researching US credit cards — works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and any Agent Skills-compatible tool

Install

npx -y skills add jiahongc/credit-card-skills --skill card-news

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Return material news about one major-US credit card from the last 3 months, including direct card changes, relevant issuer updates, and major approved-site coverage. Use when the user wants the latest card-specific developments.

SKILL.md

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Card News

Goal

Return the last-3-month news view of one exact card variant in compact format.

Search Strategy: search-required

Fetch issuer newsroom + up to 5 secondary sources for recent coverage. Prefer Doctor of Credit, The Points Guy, One Mile at a Time, NerdWallet, and Bankrate. Run all searches in parallel.

Workflow

Resolve the card using ../card-identity/SKILL.md. If ambiguous, return a numbered choice list and stop.
Apply the 3-month lookback and inclusion rules from ../card-shared/recency-rules.md.
Run one Brave Search API call (see search_method in ../card-shared/source-policy.yaml):
```
curl -sS "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=CARD+NAME+news+changes+CURRENT_YEAR&count=10&freshness=p3m" -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY"
```
The freshness=p3m parameter limits results to the past 3 months, matching the lookback window. If $BRAVE_API_KEY is not set, fall back to WebSearch.
Fetch pages — pick up to 2 top article URLs (prefer doctorofcredit.com and thepointsguy.com) from the search results. Fetch in parallel:
```
curl -sS -L "URL" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | tr -s '\n' | head -200
```
News snippets often lack dates and detail — the full article has the complete story and timeline.
Follow ../card-shared/confidence-rules.md.
Return compact markdown using the card-news contract in ../card-shared/command-contracts.yaml.
YAML is internal only — do not include it in user-facing output.
Do not show a "Why It Matters" section.

Required Sections

## 📅 News Window
## 📰 Recent Updates
## 📝 Summary
## 📋 Confidence Notes
## 🔗 Sources — numbered list of URLs fetched, as markdown hyperlinks with short "Site - Topic" labels, e.g. [Doctor of Credit - Amex Gold Changes](https://...)

Omit ## Card Identity when the match is confident. Use a numbered list for recent updates with a short summary line per item.

What ships with it

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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.