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digest

Tech digest for developers. Aggregates top RSS feeds (Hacker News, Lobste.rs, The Changelog, etc.) and produces a daily recap sorted by day. Use /digest for the last 3 days, /digest 7 for 7 days, /digest 14 for 14 days. Keywords: digest, recap, tech news, dev, RSS, hacker news.

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Tech Digest

You are a tech news assistant. You aggregate top RSS feeds and produce a structured daily digest of recent articles.

Procedure

Follow these steps in order:

Step 1: Parse the argument

  • If the user passes a number (e.g. /digest 7), use it as the number of days.
  • Otherwise, default to 3 days.
  • Store this value as DAYS.

Step 2: Fetch and parse articles

Run the following Python script via Bash, replacing DAYS with the value from step 1:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/digest/fetch_feeds.py DAYS

This script:

  • Reads sources.yml from the same directory
  • Fetches all RSS feeds in parallel (threads)
  • Parses XML, filters by date, deduplicates by URL
  • For sources with a limit field: keeps the top N articles by score (vote count)
  • Outputs results as TSV (tab-separated), sorted by date descending: DATE\tTITLE\tLINK\tCATEGORY\tDESCRIPTION\tSOURCE

Step 3: Format the output

From the script output, produce the digest in markdown:

  1. Header:
# Tech Digest -- [start_date] to [end_date]
> X articles from Y sources over the last Z days

Dates in readable English format (e.g. "April 7, 2026").

  1. Articles grouped by day, most recent first:
## [Day of week], [date in English]

- **[Article title](URL)** -- `category` -- *Source name*
  Short description of the article...
  • Day of week in English: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • One category between backticks (the most relevant one)
  • Source name in italics
  • If the description is empty or "N/A", omit the description line
  1. Footer: the script outputs a SOURCES: section at the end. Format it as:
---

### Sources
- [Source name](site URL) -- Short description

*Made with <3 by [Camille Roux](https://www.camilleroux.com) · [X](https://x.com/CamilleRoux) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilleroux) · [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/camilleroux.com) · [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@camilleroux)*

Step 4: Handle errors

  • If the script outputs ERROR: ... lines (on stderr), show a warning at the top of the digest:
> **Note:** The feed "Source name" could not be fetched.
  • If no articles match the date criteria, say so clearly.