---
name: news
description: Diverse-source world-news briefing on demand. Use when the owner says "read the news", "what's going on in the world", "news briefing", "catch me up on today / the news", "today's headlines", "what happened overnight", or wants a trustworthy cross-checked read of current events. The owner asks in plain language — never make them run a command. The agent fetches a registry of independent newsrooms (diverse geographies, funding models, editorial leans) as plumbing, synthesizes a briefing in which every story is labeled corroborated vs single-source and names the outlets carrying it, writes a dated note to Agent/News Briefings/, and surfaces the briefing inline. Read-only against the world; needs the network at fetch time. NOT the owner's own comms triage (that's attention-digest), NOT a deep dig on one question. Requires the news module.
---

# news — folder-root adapter

The real playbook lives in the brain: **`Agent/skills/news.md`** (this folder
is the vault root). Read that file and follow it exactly as written, using the
shipped CLI at `.alexandria/app/.venv/bin/alexandria` wherever it says
`alexandria`, and `.alexandria/app/.venv/bin/python` for
`python -m alexandria_vault.…` entrypoints.

If `Agent/config.json` does not exist, nothing is installed yet — stop and
follow `./CLAUDE.md` (the installer) instead of this skill.
