huxley-skill-news 0.1.0

News headlines + weather for Huxley — Google News RSS + Open-Meteo, no API keys, multi-language.

huxley-skill-news

News headlines + weather for Huxley. Google News RSS + Open-Meteo, no API keys.

Status: bundled with the Huxley repo as a workspace member.

What it does

• get_news — "what's the news" — fetches Google News RSS for the persona's country, filters by configured interests, returns up to max_items headlines with timestamps.
• get_weather — "what's the weather" — Open-Meteo forecast for the persona's lat/lon. No API key.

Both tools cache for cache_ttl_seconds (default 300s) so repeated requests within a turn don't re-fetch.

Configure

skills:
  news:
    location: "Villavicencio"
    latitude: 4.142
    longitude: -73.626
    country_code: "CO"
    language_code: "en" # feed language (separate from the persona's UI language)
    units: "metric" # or "imperial"
    interests: ["economía", "tecnología"]
    max_items: 5
    max_age_hours: 24
    cache_ttl_seconds: 300
    start_sound: news_start # opt-in chime; persona-shared earcon palette
    sounds_path: "sounds"

config_schema = None — per-language i18n overrides + the user-defined interests list shape mean v2's PWA falls back to "edit YAML directly."

Requirements

• Network access to news.google.com/rss/... and api.open-meteo.com.
• No API keys — both upstreams are public.

Development

uv run --package huxley-skill-news pytest server/skills/news/tests
uv run ruff check server/skills/news
uv run mypy server/skills/news/src

Tests use pytest-httpx to mock both upstreams; no network in CI.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.