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News Intelligence

Real-time news intelligence for AI agents — global search, trending topics, sentiment analysis, and timelines via GDELT (free) and NewsAPI.

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What this skill teaches

A reusable playbook for a specific kind of work.

An MCP server tells an agent which actions are available. A skill adds the judgment around those actions: how to recognize the job, which sequence to follow, what to avoid, and how to decide that the result is complete.

Orchestrate news intelligence — search global news, get country-specific coverage, track trending topics, analyze sentiment, build timelines, and monitor via GDELT and NewsAPI. Use when searching for news, checking what's trending, analyzing media sentiment, building news timelines, or monitoring topics.

Architecture

How News Intelligence guides an ADK-Rust agent.

The skill stays readable and portable because it contains instructions rather than service credentials or business data. ADK-Rust supplies it to the agent, the agent chooses from its reviewed tool boundary, and the connected MCP server performs the authenticated operation.

User request

The agent receives a goal expressed in ordinary language.

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News Intelligence skill

Matches intent, supplies the decision guide, and narrows the tool boundary.

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ADK-Rust agent

Plans the workflow and streams each meaningful step through the runtime.

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mcp-news

Executes authenticated operations against the system that owns the capability.

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Verified result

The skill's completion rules shape the evidence returned to the user.

Portable instructions: SKILL.md · Capability boundary: mcp-news · Allowed tools: 6

Decision guide

How the agent turns a request into the right action.

These routes come directly from the skill instructions. They help the model recognize intent and select a focused tool or workflow instead of improvising across the entire capability surface.

"news", "what's happening", "latest"?

search_news / get_country_news

"trending", "hot topics", "viral"?

get_trending_topics

"sentiment", "tone", "positive/negative"?

get_news_sentiment

"timeline", "how did this develop"?

get_news_timeline

"search articles", "find coverage"?

newsapi_search (premium)

Proven workflows

Repeatable sequences for useful outcomes.

A workflow joins several tool calls into a task the user actually recognizes. The skill explains the sequence and the intended result while ADK-Rust streams the agent's progress through the shared runtime.

011 calls

News Search

Articles by query/country

021 calls

Sentiment

Positive/negative/neutral tone

041 calls

Timeline

How story evolved over days

Tool boundary

The skill may use 6 documented tools.

This allowlist is declared by the skill. It keeps the agent focused on the actions needed for this job while mcp-news retains responsibility for authentication, validation, and the connected system.

search_news

get_country_news

get_trending_topics

get_news_timeline

get_news_sentiment

newsapi_search

Working rules

What the agent should do.

Include publication date and source on every article
Default to last 24h (news is time-sensitive)
Note sentiment tone when presenting results
Distinguish free sources (GDELT) from premium (NewsAPI)

Operating boundaries

What the agent should avoid.

Don't present old news as current
Don't present single-source narratives as consensus
Don't ignore sentiment context (negative coverage ≠ bad company)

Install and connect

Add the skill beside the capability it expects.

Install the repository where your ADK-Rust skill loader can discover it, connect mcp-news, and confirm the declared tools are available before asking the agent to use the workflow.

Install the skill

git clone https://github.com/zavora-ai/skill-news-intelligence.git ~/.skills/skills/news-intelligence

ADK-Rust loading shape

let skills = SkillLoader::from_dir("~/.skills/skills").await?;
let skill = skills.load("news-intelligence").await?;

let agent = LlmAgentBuilder::new("agent")
    .instruction(skill.instructions())
    .tools(skill.allowed_tools(toolset)?)
    .build()?;

The repository's compatibility statement: Requires mcp-news server connected (GDELT free, NewsAPI optional premium).

Official documentation

Read the complete skill package.

The repository remains authoritative for its exact instructions, examples, helper scripts, assets, MCP requirements, license, and later updates.

Overview ↗README.md Skill instructions ↗SKILL.md Cross Mcp Workflows ↗references/cross-mcp-workflows.md Examples ↗references/examples.md Tool Sequences ↗references/tool-sequences.md Sentiment Summary ↗scripts/sentiment_summary.py News Digest ↗assets/news-digest.md

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Source record

Repository metadata for this skill entry.

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License: Apache-2.0
Allowed tools: 6
References: 3
Revision: 6cc4b6217c18
Updated: May 31, 2026