Daily news and hot topics via the 6551 API. Supports news categories, hot news articles, and trending tweets by category.
Security Analysis
high confidenceThe skill's requests, instructions, and install steps are consistent with a read-only, public REST API news fetcher; nothing requested appears disproportionate or unrelated to the stated purpose.
Name/description match the runtime instructions: the SKILL.md only performs unauthenticated GETs against the documented 6551 API endpoints. Required binary (curl) is appropriate for this purpose.
Instructions are narrow and well-scoped: they only run curl GET requests to public endpoints on https://ai.6551.io. The SKILL.md does not instruct the agent to read local files, access credentials, or transmit unrelated data.
Install spec installs curl via a Homebrew formula, which is reasonable on macOS but may be irrelevant on Linux/Windows (SKILL.md lists darwin, linux, win32). This is a minor incoherence: the skill otherwise declares curl as required but provides only a brew-based installer.
No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested. The skill operates against public endpoints with no auth, which is proportionate to its purpose.
The skill is not always-enabled and does not request elevated persistence or modify other skills/config. Autonomous invocation is allowed by platform default but is not combined with any sensitive access here.
Guidance
This skill is coherent and low-risk: it only issues unauthenticated HTTP GETs to https://ai.6551.io and does not request credentials or local file access. Before installing, consider: (1) network traffic will go to ai.6551.io — requests include query parameters and your IP, so review the domain/publisher if you need privacy guarantees; (2) the install step only lists Homebrew (macOS) whereas the skill also claims Linux/Windows support — ensure curl is available on your OS or supply it yourself; (3) a small documentation inconsistency (examples use category=macro for "Hot Crypto News") — not a security issue but worth confirming correct parameters; (4) the agent may call this skill autonomously (platform default), so if you prefer manual control, disable autonomous invocation in your agent settings. Overall the skill appears to do what it says.
Latest Release
v0.1.0
Initial release of Daily News skill. - Provides daily news and trending topics using the 6551 API. - Supports fetching news categories, hot news articles, and trending tweets by category/subcategory. - No authentication required. - Compatible with macOS, Linux, and Windows. - Requires curl for API calls.
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