Is the AI Daily News skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from geekjourneyx/ai-daily-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the AI Daily News SkillProof Score?

7.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 4/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install AI Daily News?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use AI Daily News with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

AI Daily News

Fetches smol.ai RSS and turns a chosen day's AI news into categorized markdown

by geekjourneyx · geekjourneyx/ai-daily-skill

Works with setup

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Works with setup
Score: 7.2/10
Tested: Jul 31, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · b526217

Cloned the repo and ran scripts/fetch_news.py against live smol.ai RSS: --date-range returned 687 entries (2023-12-06 to 2026-07-30), and --date 2026-07-30 returned real JSON content (OpenAI GPT-5.6 price cuts, ARC-AGI-3 harness debate, Thinking Machines Inkling-Small open MoE, Gemini Robotics 2). Wrote a baseline.md (10 lines, flat English prose, 0 ## sections, no links/tags) and a skill_output.md following output-format.md strictly (50 lines, 9 sections, 4 category-linked items each with 关键信息 tags, keyword hashtag block, source/timestamp footer). Script is clean (public RSS GET, no security smells); all three referenced files fetch HTTP 200. Friction: needs `pip install feedparser requests`, and the doc'd script path is the repo-internal plugin path, not the installed-skill-relative path.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 4/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What AI Daily News does

Runs a bundled Python script to pull AI-industry news from the smol.ai RSS feed for a given date, then Claude summarizes and sorts the items into categories (model releases, products, research, tools, funding) as structured markdown, with optional HTML pages and shareable card images. Triggers when the user asks for AI news, daily tech updates, or news organized by date or category, including Chinese phrasings like "昨天AI资讯".

How to install AI Daily News

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geekjourneyx/ai-daily-skill.git /tmp/ai-daily-news-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/ai-daily-news-src/plugins/ai-daily/skills/ai-daily ~/.claude/skills/ai-daily-news
# Python deps required by scripts/fetch_news.py:
#   pip install feedparser requests
# NOTE: SKILL.md documents the fetch command with the in-repo path
#   `python plugins/ai-daily/skills/ai-daily/scripts/fetch_news.py`
#   After install the script lives at ~/.claude/skills/ai-daily-news/scripts/fetch_news.py
# Optional card-image step (Step 7) calls an external API (fireflycard-api.302ai.cn) — not exercised here.

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger AI Daily News

/ai-daily-news Fetches smol.ai RSS and turns a chosen day's AI news into categorized markdown

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Give me today's AI news summary
Generate an HTML page of this week's AI updates
Organize recent AI news by category

Frequently asked questions

Is the AI Daily News skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from geekjourneyx/ai-daily-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does AI Daily News work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 31, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Cloned the repo and ran scripts/fetch_news.py against live smol.ai RSS: --date-range returned 687 entries (2023-12-06 to 2026-07-30), and --date 2026-07-30 returned real JSON content (OpenAI GPT-5.6 price cuts, ARC-AGI-3 harness debate, Thinking Machines Inkling-Small open MoE, Gemini Robotics 2). Wrote a baseline.md (10 lines, flat English prose, 0 ## sections, no links/tags) and a skill_output.md following output-format.md strictly (50 lines, 9 sections, 4 category-linked items each with 关键信息 tags, keyword hashtag block, source/timestamp footer). Script is clean (public RSS GET, no security smells); all three referenced files fetch HTTP 200. Friction: needs `pip install feedparser requests`, and the doc'd script path is the repo-internal plugin path, not the installed-skill-relative path.
What is the AI Daily News SkillProof Score?: 7.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 4/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install AI Daily News?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use AI Daily News with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.