Came across a combo of two open-source skills that work really well together: one pulls real-time news from 20+ sources, the other renders it into a newspaper-style mobile image. You just give your AI agent a prompt and it does the rest.

The two skills

1. dak-news — real-time news aggregation for AI

An open-source news skill designed for AI agents. It indexes 21 live sources updated every 30 minutes:

International / Geopolitics: BBC, NYT, Al Jazeera, AP News, Foreign Affairs, The Diplomat
Finance / Macro: Bloomberg, CNBC, MarketWatch, ZeroHedge
Tech: Hacker News
Social Trending: Weibo Hot, Zhihu Hot

Supports keyword, date range, and source filters — so your agent can search and cross-reference stories on its own.

2. newspaper-brief — newspaper-style image renderer

A skill that takes structured JSON (title, sections, highlights, quotes) and renders it into a newspaper-style mobile long image via HTML/CSS + headless browser screenshot. Basically turns a chat response into something that actually looks good.

Install is straightforward

Simply tell your agent to install skills from both dak-news and newspaper-brief link.

Usage is dead simple

Once both skills are added to your agent, you just say:

>"Generate today's world news brief"

Or get more specific:

>"Summarize this week's Iran-US developments"
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>"Create a tech industry weekly report"

The agent searches dak-news, organizes the findings into structured JSON, and newspaper-brief renders the final image.

What I like about it

No manual curation — the AI pulls from real sources, not hallucinated content
Actually readable — the newspaper layout with highlights, quotes, and sections beats a wall-of-text chat response
Shareable — the PNG output is perfect for group chats, Slack, or social media
Flexible — daily briefs, weekly roundups, topic deep-dives, event timelines all work

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