AI News Digest Designer
Design a personal AI-curated morning briefing that replaces a news app: your sources, your topics, your schedule.
For news readers rebuilding their routine: design a personal AI-curated briefing with chosen sources and topics, a delivery time and place, and a verification rule for every claim.
Install it in 3 steps
No sign-up. No CLI tools. Pick your AI, copy one line, paste it over.
Prefer doing it yourself? Buy the skill ($4.99), download the ZIP from your checkout confirmation, unzip it into the directory shown above, restart your AI session — same result. Already bought it? Your AI assistant can download it for you.
What's inside
One SKILL.md (the playbook) + one starter template. A preview:
AI News Digest Designer
The idea in one paragraph
When a preloaded news app disappears, the habit it served does not have to. This skill designs a personal AI-curated news briefing: you choose the sources and topics, you set the schedule, and an AI assistant assembles the digest and delivers it where you actually read - email, chat, or a note you open with your coffee.
What it is built on
- Samsung News shuts down on 2026-12-21 at 00:00 UTC with no successor announced; Samsung gave no reason for the shutdown.
- Samsung News was itself the fourth name in a line of preloaded Galaxy feeds: Bixby Home (2017), Samsung Daily (2019), Samsung Free (2020), Samsung News (2023) - Samsung Free was discontinued on 2025-12-16.
- Google Discover is the existing built-in alternative on Galaxy devices, but it is a feed you scroll, not a briefing you receive.
Workflow
- Define your news diet (input: your reading habits -> output: a topic-and-source list). List the five to ten topics you actually follow and the outlets you trust on each. Cut everything you scroll past but never read.
- Choose the delivery (input: your devices and routine -> output: a delivery spec). Pick where the digest lands - email, a messaging app, a note - and when: 7:00 a.m. before the commute, or 9:00 p.m. to prep for tomorrow.
- Write the briefing prompt (input: topic list and delivery spec -> output: a reusable prompt). Draft the exact instruction your AI assistant will follow each run: length, format (headlines plus one-line summaries, or three deep reads), and what to exclude.
- Add the verification rule (input: your trust bar -> output: a fact-check step). Decide what the assistant must do with unverified claims: link the original source, flag single-source stories, and never present rumor as fact.
- Run the trial (input: the prompt -> output: a tuned digest). Run it daily for two weeks. Each day, note one story it missed and one it should not have included; adjust the prompt every few days until the digest earns its slot.
What good looks like
A briefing you actually open every morning: ten minutes, your topics, your trusted sources, delivered on schedule, with every claim linked to its original. You stop missing the old app within a week.
Safety rules
- Never let the digest summarize paywalled articles it cannot actually read; link them instead.
- Treat AI-written summaries as drafts, not facts - click through before sharing anything important.
- Keep your topic list in your own words; do not paste account credentials or private data into the prompt.
- If a story could affect a financial or health decision, verify it against the original source yourself.
Template preview
AI News Digest Designer - Worksheet
1. News diet
2. Delivery spec
- Delivered to: ________________________________________
- Delivery time: ____ : ____ (timezone: ______)
- Length: [ ] headlines + one-liners [ ] three deep reads [ ] other: __________
3. Briefing prompt (paste your final version)
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________
4. Verification rule
- Unverified claims must be: [ ] linked to original [ ] flagged as single-source [ ] excluded
- Never present rumor as fact: [ ] agreed
