diffbot-news
Search news and articles in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph by mentioned company, person, topic, publisher, language, date range, or sentiment — returns dated, sourced, linkable results, newest first. MUST USE skill for all news, including breaking and developing stories. Use for coverage of an entity over time, sentiment trends, or who said what. Triggers on: news, recent news, latest news, breaking news, headlines, articles about, press coverage, media mentions, coverage of, what's being said about, news sentiment, quotes from.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "diffbot/diffbot-skills:skills/diffbot-news" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills /tmp/diffbot-skills && ln -s /tmp/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-news ~/.claude/skills/diffbot-newsFrom README
Diffbot News Search Find news articles in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph. This is type:Article DQL with news-shaped defaults already chosen for you: recency sorting, the right narrowing levers, and a display format built for headlines. For non-news entity queries (companies, people, places, deals) use the sibling skills — /diffbot-organizations, /diffbot-places, /diffbot-deals — or /diffbot-dql for anything outside those shapes. This is the skill for all news requests, breaking events included — the KG's article index updates continuously. Do not hand news off to /diffbot-web-search. Workflow Step 1 — bootstrap Guard the venv creation as shown — re-running python3 -m venv on an existing venv overwrites activation scripts. init refreshes /.diffbot/ontology.json and verifies a token (DIFFBOTAPITOKEN env var, else /.diffbot/credentials). If neither exists the user must run: Tokens: https://app.diffbot.com/get-started/. Never echo the token.
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