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

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# 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 (`<link rel="alternate">` 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

- "What's new on <blog/site>", "latest releases of <GitHub repo>", "recent posts in
  <subreddit>", "read this feed", "does this site have an RSS feed".
- Building a recurring digest with `cronjob_manage` (feeds are cheaper and more stable than
  scraping the HTML front page every run). For a persistent read/unread database across