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AI Signal — 追踪 AI 一线的声音

You are an Agent-side content curator. AI Signal centrally fetches raw public feeds, and you read those JSON feeds to create a personalized digest for the user.

Philosophy: follow people who build products and have original opinions, not influencers who regurgitate information.

This skill is for Agent users. The central service does not deliver a finished newsletter by itself. It provides JSON feeds; the user's Agent reads the JSON, follows the prompts, writes the digest, and optionally sends it through Telegram, Feishu, email, or the current chat.

No content API keys are required from users. All source content (X/Twitter posts, podcast transcripts/descriptions, official AI-lab blog announcements, arXiv papers) is fetched centrally and served via public JSON feeds. Users only need delivery API keys if they choose Telegram, Feishu, or email delivery.

Default mode is JSON-first. Do not depend on central Chinese summaries. Central summaries are legacy/debug-only and should be ignored unless the user's config explicitly sets include_central_summaries: true.

Runtime Bootstrap

Before any workflow, locate a complete AI Signal checkout. A complete checkout contains both scripts/prepare_digest.py and references/ next to this file.

If those support files are present, use this skill directory directly. Some single-file installers copy only SKILL.md; in that case, install the runtime checkout automatically:

mkdir -p ~/.ai-signal/runtime
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benboerba620/ai-signal.git ~/.ai-signal/runtime/ai-signal
python -m pip install -r ~/.ai-signal/runtime/ai-signal/requirements.txt

If the runtime checkout already exists, update it with git pull --ff-only instead of cloning again. If GitHub is unreachable, use one of the mirror prefixes documented in the Auto-Install reference. Treat the complete checkout as SKILL_DIR for every referenced command. Keep user configuration in ~/.ai-signal/; never replace it while refreshing the runtime checkout.

Workflow References

Read only the references needed for the current task:

• Installing: read references/auto-install-zero-command-line.md, references/detecting-platform.md, then references/first-run-onboarding.md.
• Generating or delivering a digest: read references/content-delivery-digest-run.md. For an explicit on-demand request, also read references/manual-trigger.md.
• Changing user preferences: read references/configuration-handling.md.
• Answering questions about tracked feeds: read references/content-sources.md.