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User-configurable multi-slot news aggregation and push system. Schedule, topics, and keywords are defined by the user via config.json. Aggregates from Twitter, Hacker News, Tavily, filters by influence, summarizes, stores locally, supports feedback iteration.

ClawHub Agent Skills author: Hzlvv v0.1.0 19 files · 1 script body ≈ 2 807 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai↗ analyzed 3 d ago

As a process C 52/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, consistency

ProcedureInfrastructureWriting and documentstype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
Runs in: OpenClaw Claude / Claude Code ChatGPT / Codex Gemini CLI Cursor GitHub Copilot / VS Code Qwen Code Kimi Code CLI Z.ai (GLM) DeepSeek (Deep Code) Mistral Vibe LangChain (deepagents) Goose OpenCode
JSON
Technical rating
B
87/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
96
Quality 40%
73
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
C
52/100
Has gaps
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
Progress reporting w 2
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

How to improve

  1. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
For the model run — optional
  • Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
  • A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 4

✓ No critical or high findings

Medium and low: 4
  • low Dangerous commands cmd-cron-mention references/setup-guide.md:179
    Mentions editing / listing crontab
    crontab -e
  • low Dangerous commands cmd-cron-mention references/setup-guide.md:199
    Mentions editing / listing crontab
    crontab -l
  • low Exfiltration read-dotenv references/setup-guide.md:289
    Reads a .env file (quoted — discussed, not commanded)
    2. Check your `.env` file exists: `cat ~/.openclaw/workspace/.env`
    quoted
  • low Dangerous commands cmd-cron-mention references/setup-guide.md:294
    Mentions editing / listing crontab (quoted — discussed, not commanded)
    1. Verify cron is running: `crontab -l`
    quoted

Files scanned: 19. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")

Process rating: all ten parameters 52/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (news-digest) differs from the folder (openclaw-new-digest)
  • 50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web) that frontmatter does not declare
  • 70Failures and branches. 4 branches
  • 100Steps. 28 steps
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2807 tokens
  • 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

  • +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • -32 of 12 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +3Description length 259: enough signal without eating the budget
  • +4Structure: 25 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 28 items
  • +4Has examples (22 code blocks)
  • +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 73.

External checks

ClawHub: suspicious
The skill is a legitimate news-digest workflow, but its scheduled runner loads broad .env files as shell code before starting OpenClaw, which deserves review before use.
LLM: suspicious (high) · VirusTotal: · 29 May 2026