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rss-feeds skill

by NousResearch·NousResearch/hermes-agent·263k stars·MIT

Read RSS, Atom, JSON feeds; discover feeds behind a page.

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Install the rss-feeds skill

A skill is a folder. Copy it into your agent's skills folder and the agent loads it when the task matches its description. 

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git /tmp/hermes-agent
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/hermes-agent/optional-skills/research/rss-feeds ~/.claude/skills/rss-feeds
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In the Claude apps, zip the folder and upload it from the Skills settings. The folder on GitHub

The instructions your agent would load

SKILL.md as published, without the frontmatter. Read it on GitHub

RSS Feeds Skill

Reads any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom, or JSON Feed URL into a clean, date-sorted list of entries, and discovers the feed behind an ordinary page URL ( or the usual /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml paths). Standard library only, nothing to install. It does not fetch full article bodies — pass an entry's link to web_extract for that.

When to Use

", "read this feed", "does this site have an RSS feed".

  • "What's new on ", "latest releases of ", "recent posts in

scraping the HTML front page every run). For a persistent read/unread database across many feeds install the optional blogwatcher skill; this skill is the zero-install read.

  • Building a recurring digest with cronjob_manage (feeds are cheaper and more stable than

rendered page: podcasts, changelogs, YouTube channels, newsrooms, forum categories.

  • Anything where a structured list of title / link / date / author / summary beats a

Prerequisites

None. Python 3.10+, network access to the feed host.

How to Run

Run through terminal with the skill-relative script path:

python3 scripts/feed.py read https://hnrss.org/frontpage --limit 10
python3 scripts/feed.py read https://simonwillison.net/            # page URL → discovers the feed
python3 scripts/feed.py read URL --since 2026-09-01 --json          # only newer entries, machine-readable
python3 scripts/feed.py discover https://example.com/               # list candidate feed URLs

Quick Reference

Output fields per entry: title, link, published (UTC ISO 8601), author, summary (HTML stripped, ≤ 2000 chars). Entries are sorted newest-first.

Procedure

① If you only have a site URL, run read on it directly; the script discovers the feed and reports which URL it used (discovered_from). Use discover when you want to choose between several advertised feeds (comments feed vs posts feed, per-category feeds).

② Bound the request: --limit for "latest N", --since YYYY-MM-DD for "since last check". For a cron digest persist the last-seen published value and pass it as --since next run.

③ For full text, hand the entry link to web_extract; feed summaries are frequently truncated or the first paragraph only.

④ Cite the entry link, not the feed URL, when the result feeds a report (grounded-citations).

Pitfalls

to discovery automatically, but a site with no and none of the common paths reports no feed found — check the site's footer or /sitemap.xml before concluding there is none.

  • A 200 response with HTML means the URL is a page, not a feed; the script falls through

Chain them through reddit-reading, which waits out the window, when you need more than one Reddit call.

  • Reddit feeds share Reddit's anonymous throttle (about one request per minute per IP).

UTC. Feeds that omit dates sort to the bottom and are dropped by --since.

  • Dates: RSS pubDate is RFC 822 and Atom uses ISO 8601; the script normalises both to

handles that class.

  • Some feeds are Cloudflare-fronted and 403 non-browser clients; blocked-page-recovery

Verification

python3 scripts/feed.py read https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases.atom --limit 1 prints one entry with a releases/tag/ link and a [atom] format tag; discover https://simonwillison.net/ prints an /atom/ URL.

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