lamm-mit/minerals-news-monitor
skills/minerals-news-monitor/SKILL.md
Discover critical-minerals and materials signals from newspapers, blogs, and industry media using web search, with normalized policy/commodity tagging
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SKILL.md
- name:
- minerals-news-monitor
- description:
- Discover critical-minerals and materials signals from newspapers, blogs, and industry media using web search, with normalized policy/commodity tagging
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Minerals News Monitor
Discover relevant links from newspapers, blogs, and industry outlets for critical minerals and materials topics.
Usage
# Broad monitoring
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py --query "critical minerals" --max-results 20
# Commodity/country targeted monitoring
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py \
--commodity lithium --commodity cobalt \
--country china --country canada \
--format json
# Blogs only
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py --query "battery materials" --source-type blogs
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|-----------|-------------|---------|
| --query | Base search query | critical minerals |
| --commodity | Commodity term (repeatable) | - |
| --country | Country term (repeatable) | - |
| --max-results | Max records returned | 20 |
| --source-type | all, news, blogs | all |
| --format | summary, detailed, json | summary |
Output Schema
Each record includes:
url, source, published_at, title, summary, commodity_tags, country_tags, policy_signal, confidence, retrieved_at, source_type.
Notes
- Uses DuckDuckGo HTML results (no API key required).
- Designed for discovery; use
minerals-web-ingestto fetch full content and persist hashes.
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