News & Events Skill

A portable Agent Skill for recency-sensitive questions. It routes “latest”, “breaking”, “this week”, and “as of today” requests to You.com Search in news mode, constrains retrieval to the requested window, and returns dated results with sources.

What You’ll Build

A SKILL.md package for recency-sensitive questions. The skill detects phrases such as latest, this week, breaking, and as of today, routes the request to you-search in news mode, applies the requested date window, and states the as-of time explicitly.

When It Fires

The answer depends on recency. Trigger signals: “latest”, “this week”, “breaking”, and “as of today”.

Prerequisites

Install the Skill

1. Connect your agent harness to the You.com MCP server — see the MCP server guide.
2. Save the skill below as SKILL.md in your harness’s skills directory (or download it).
3. The agent invokes you-search in news mode whenever the trigger fires.

The Skill

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---
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name: news-events
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description: Use when the user asks about recent or breaking developments - "what happened with X this week", "latest on Y", anything time-bounded. Prioritizes freshness over depth.
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---
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# News & events (You.com)
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## When this fires
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The answer depends on recency. Signals: "latest", "this week", "breaking",
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"as of today".
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## How to retrieve
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1. Call the standard You.com MCP server's `you-search` tool in news mode.
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2. Constrain to the requested window; lead with the most recent items.
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3. Return dated, cited results. State the as-of time explicitly.

Example Output

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As of June 18, 2026, 2:00 PM ET:
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## Latest on the requested topic
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- June 18, 2026 - The most recent report says the rollout expanded to three
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  additional markets.
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- June 17, 2026 - Company leadership confirmed the timeline.
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Sources:
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[1] News source - June 18, 2026
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[2] Company update - June 17, 2026

Next Steps