Agent News Monitor

Monitors Hacker News, Reddit, and arXiv for AI agent developments. Produces daily digests and alerts for trending topics.

Why This Exists

Staying current on AI agent developments is crucial but time-consuming. This skill automates discovery of relevant news, papers, and discussions.

Commands

Daily Digest

./monitor.sh digest

Generates a markdown digest of the past 24 hours.

Trending Now

./monitor.sh trending

Shows currently hot topics across all sources.

Search

./monitor.sh search "memory systems"

Searches recent content for specific topics.

Watch Topics

./monitor.sh watch "autonomous agents,tool use,memory"

Sets topics to highlight in future digests.

Sources

• Hacker News: Top/new stories matching AI agent keywords
• Reddit: r/LocalLLaMA, r/MachineLearning, r/artificial
• arXiv: cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG categories

Heartbeat Integration

Add to HEARTBEAT.md:

## Morning News Check
- Run: ./skills/agent-news/monitor.sh digest --quiet
- If interesting items: Send summary to Serene
- Log: Update memory/news-state.json

Output

Supports markdown (default) and JSON (--json) output.