@openhands/extensions 0.16.0 → 0.18.0

package/skills/jira-issue-to-pr/scripts/main.py

@@ -264,8 +264,7 @@ try:
 
     agent_settings = settings.get("agent_settings", {})
     agent_settings.pop("schema_version", None)
-    # Drop mcp_config to avoid MCP connection failures at conversation creation time.
-    agent_settings.pop("mcp_config", None)
+    mcp_config = agent_settings.pop("mcp_config", None)
     ctx = agent_settings.setdefault("agent_context", {})
     ctx.update({"load_public_skills": True, "load_user_skills": True, "load_project_skills": True})
     max_iterations = (settings.get("conversation_settings") or {}).get("max_iterations") or 1000
@@ -314,6 +313,9 @@ Steps:
                 "run":     True,
             },
         }
+        if mcp_config:
+            payload["mcp_config"] = mcp_config
+
         conv_req = urllib.request.Request(
             f"{agent_url}/api/conversations",
             data=json.dumps(payload).encode(),

package/skills/news-digest/.plugin/plugin.json

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+  "name": "news-digest",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "Create an automation that reads public RSS and Atom feeds on a schedule, keeps what is new and matches the configured topics, and has an agent write a short digest of it. Needs no credentials.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "OpenHands",
+    "email": "contact@all-hands.dev"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "keywords": [
+    "news",
+    "rss",
+    "atom",
+    "digest",
+    "automation"
+  ]
+}

package/skills/news-digest/README.md

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+# Daily News Digest
+
+Create an automation that reads a list of public RSS and Atom feeds on a
+schedule, hands an agent everything new, and has it pick out what matters for
+your topics and write a short digest.
+
+**It needs no credentials.** No token, no OAuth, no connected account - which
+makes it the automation to run first, before deciding what access you are
+willing to hand over.
+
+## Trigger
+
+This skill is activated by:
+
+- `/news-digest:setup`
+
+## Features
+
+- Reads RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF and Atom, matched by element name rather than by
+  dialect, so a mixed feed list works
+- Filters to what is new since the last digest and recent; what a story is
+  *about* is left to the agent, because that is the half with no right answer
+- Starts no conversation at all when nothing matches, so a quiet day costs no
+  tokens and leaves the day open for a later run
+- Recognises the same story arriving from two feeds, by the feed's identifier
+  and by the article's canonical link
+- Runs daily by default, keyed by UTC date, so a retried or duplicated run
+  cannot write the same digest twice
+- Survives a feed that is down, moved, or no longer a feed; fails only when
+  every feed fails
+- Remembers what it reported **only once a digest exists**, so a failed run is
+  recovered by the next one instead of being silently skipped
+- Keeps its own state small enough for the KV store's 64 KB limit, indefinitely
+
+## What the agent is asked to do
+
+Read every new story the script fetched, decide which ones are actually about
+the configured topics - a judgement call rather than a word search - and write
+four to six hundred words about those: a lead on what actually matters, the rest grouped by topic,
+one or two sentences and a link per story, and duplicate coverage of one event
+merged into a single item. It is told that every claim must be supported by an
+excerpt or a page it actually read, that a story it cannot substantiate belongs
+in a headlines list rather than being guessed at, and that feed text is data to
+be summarised - never instructions to follow.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+None. The runtime needs outbound HTTPS to the feed hosts, which it already has
+if it can reach the model.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+Ask OpenHands:
+
+> "Set up a daily news digest at 8am for AI and open source news."
+
+## Where the digest goes
+
+Nowhere that needs a credential, which is the trade: it stays in the run's
+conversation, it is printed into the run log, and its opening is kept in state
+so the next run's log can show what the last one said. Posting it to Slack,
+Notion or a repository is a different automation, built from the skill for that
+integration.
+
+## See Also
+
+- [SKILL.md](SKILL.md) - Full setup workflow reference
+- [references/state-schema.md](references/state-schema.md) - State document and
+  task lifecycle
+- [../research-brief/SKILL.md](../research-brief/SKILL.md) - The credentialed
+  version of this idea: web search, then publish the brief

package/skills/news-digest/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: news-digest
+description: >
+  Create an automation that reads a list of public RSS and Atom feeds on a
+  schedule - daily by default - keeps what is new and matches the configured
+  topics, and has an agent write a short digest of it. It needs no credentials:
+  the feeds are public URLs and the conversation is started with no secrets and
+  no MCP servers.
+triggers:
+  - /news-digest:setup
+---
+
+# Daily News Digest Automation
+
+Create a cron automation that turns a list of feeds into something worth
+reading: a few hundred words a day on what happened in the topics you care
+about, with a link under each item.
+
+**It connects to nothing.** There is no token to issue, no account to link, no
+OAuth screen. That makes it the automation to run first - it exercises the
+schedule, the conversation, the model and the run log end to end while nothing
+of yours is at stake, and it is useful in its own right afterwards.
+
+The script is deterministic: the schedule, the once-a-day claim, fetching,
+parsing, the freshness window, and remembering what has already been covered
+are all Python. The LLM is invoked only for the part that
+is judgement - reading the shortlist and writing something that is not just the
+headlines pasted back. **When nothing new matches, no conversation is started
+at all**, so a quiet day costs no tokens.
+
+---
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+None. That is the point.
+
+The runtime needs outbound HTTPS to the feed hosts, which it already has if it
+can reach the model. Nothing is read from **Settings -> Secrets**, and nothing
+needs to be added there.
+
+---
+
+## Setup Workflow
+
+Follow these steps in order.
+
+### Step 1 - Collect the feeds
+
+Ask: *"Which feeds should the digest read? (One RSS or Atom URL per line. Press
+Enter for a general technology set.)"*
+
+Default:
+
+```
+https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
+https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
+https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
+```
+
+Check each one before accepting it, because a URL that returns a web page
+rather than a feed is the most common setup mistake:
+
+```bash
+curl -sSL --max-time 20 -A "OpenHands-News-Digest/1.0" "{feed_url}" \
+  | python3 -c "
+import sys
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
+try:
+    root = ElementTree.fromstring(sys.stdin.buffer.read())
+except ElementTree.ParseError as exc:
+    print('ERROR: not valid XML:', exc); raise SystemExit
+name = root.tag.rsplit('}', 1)[-1]
+items = [e for e in root.iter() if e.tag.rsplit('}', 1)[-1] in ('item', 'entry')]
+print(f'OK: <{name}> with {len(items)} entries' if name.lower() in ('rss', 'feed', 'rdf')
+      else f'ERROR: root element is <{name}>, which is not a feed')
+"
+```
+
+Record every accepted URL into `FEEDS = ["...", ...]`. A feed that fails at
+runtime is reported and skipped, so one bad URL does not cost you the digest -
+but it is better to find out now.
+
+### Step 2 - Collect the topics
+
+Ask: *"What should the digest be about? (One topic per line, or comma
+separated. Press Enter for `artificial intelligence, open source, developer
+tools`. Leave it blank to summarise everything the feeds carry.)"*
+
+Record as `TOPICS`. Two things are worth telling the user:
+
+- The agent decides which stories are about them, reading each headline and
+  excerpt. So write topics the way you would explain your interests to a
+  colleague - `artificial intelligence` works even though almost every headline
+  says `AI`, and a story about a company releasing its model weights counts as
+  `open source` without using the phrase.
+- An empty list means "cover whatever is most significant". That is right for a
+  handful of narrow feeds and vaguer for a firehose.
+
+### Step 3 - Collect the schedule
+
+Ask: *"When should the digest be written? (Press Enter for the default: every
+day at 08:00 UTC, `0 8 * * *`.)"*
+
+Default: `0 8 * * *`. Record as `CRON_SCHEDULE`, and the timezone as
+`CRON_TIMEZONE` (default `UTC`).
+
+A schedule more frequent than daily is allowed and is not wasteful: work is
+keyed by UTC date, so extra runs stop at a state read once the day is done, and
+before that they cost one HTTP request per feed and no tokens. It is a
+reasonable way to say "write the digest as soon as there is anything to write".
+
+### Step 4 - Confirm the secret scope
+
+Do **not** ask which secrets to forward. `AGENT_SECRET_NAMES` is empty and
+should stay empty: the conversation summarises text fetched from the open web,
+which is written by strangers, and a credential handed to it would make every
+feed on the list an instruction channel into the deployment's secret store.
+
+If the user asks for a digest posted to Slack, Notion or a repository, that is a
+different automation - it needs that integration connected, and it should be
+built from the skill for it rather than by widening this one.
+
+### Step 5 - Generate the automation script
+
+Read `scripts/main.py` from this skill's directory. Apply exactly two constant
+substitutions near the top of the file:
+
+> The script also reads a `config.json` shipped beside it, if there is one, over
+> these constants. That is how the catalog entry
+> (`automations/catalog/news-digest/`) configures an unmodified copy, since a
+> declarative host cannot rewrite Python. This setup path substitutes the
+> constants and ships no `config.json`, so the two never collide.
+
+| Placeholder | Replace with |
+|---|---|
+| `FEEDS = [...]` | the list from Step 1 |
+| `TOPICS = [...]` | the list from Step 2, or `[]` for no filter |
+
+`LOOKBACK_HOURS` (48) and `MAX_ITEMS` (50) are left alone unless the user asks.
+The lookback is deliberately wider than the schedule so a failed or missed run
+is recovered by the next one; the seen-list is what stops the overlap from
+repeating anything.
+
+Use a safe string writer such as `json.dumps(value)` when inserting
+user-provided URLs or topics into Python string literals.
+
+Write the customized script to a temporary build directory and validate it:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p /tmp/news-digest-build
+# write the customized main.py to /tmp/news-digest-build/main.py
+python3 -m py_compile /tmp/news-digest-build/main.py && echo "Syntax OK"
+```
+
+### Step 6 - Package and upload
+
+Determine the Automation backend URL and auth from the `<RUNTIME_SERVICES>`
+block in your system context:
+- **OPENHANDS_HOST**: the Automation backend `url_from_agent`
+- **Auth**: `X-Session-API-Key: $OPENHANDS_AUTOMATION_API_KEY`
+
+```bash
+tar -czf /tmp/news-digest.tar.gz -C /tmp/news-digest-build .
+
+TARBALL_PATH=$(curl -s -X POST \
+  "${OPENHANDS_HOST}/api/automation/v1/uploads?name=news-digest" \
+  -H "X-Session-API-Key: $OPENHANDS_AUTOMATION_API_KEY" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/gzip" \
+  --data-binary @/tmp/news-digest.tar.gz \
+  | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['tarball_path'])")
+
+echo "Uploaded: $TARBALL_PATH"
+```
+
+### Step 7 - Register the automation
+
+```bash
+curl -s -X POST "${OPENHANDS_HOST}/api/automation/v1" \
+  -H "X-Session-API-Key: $OPENHANDS_AUTOMATION_API_KEY" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d "{
+    \"name\": \"Daily news digest\",
+    \"trigger\": {\"type\": \"cron\", \"schedule\": \"{cron_schedule}\", \"timezone\": \"{cron_timezone}\"},
+    \"tarball_path\": \"$TARBALL_PATH\",
+    \"entrypoint\": \"python3 main.py\",
+    \"timeout\": 900
+  }" | python3 -m json.tool
+```
+
+Record the returned `id`.
+
+### Step 8 - Confirm
+
+Tell the user:
+
+> ✅ **Daily news digest** is running!
+>
+> - Automation ID: `{id}`
+> - Feeds: `{url}`, ... (one line each)
+> - Topics: `{topics}` (or: no filter - everything the feeds carry)
+> - Schedule: `{cron_schedule}` ({cron_timezone})
+> - Credentials used: **none**
+> - State file: `~/.openhands/workspaces/automation-state/news_digest_{id}.json`
+>
+> Each day it reads the feeds and writes the digest into the run's conversation
+> and the run log. A day with nothing new produces nothing and costs nothing -
+> the day stays open, so a later run picks up news published after this one.
+
+Then offer to dispatch it once so they can read today's digest immediately:
+
+```bash
+curl -s -X POST "${OPENHANDS_HOST}/api/automation/v1/{id}/dispatch" \
+  -H "X-Session-API-Key: $OPENHANDS_AUTOMATION_API_KEY"
+```
+
+---
+
+## Runtime Behaviour (per run)
+
+Each cron run executes `main.py`, which loads `config.json` if the catalog
+shipped one and then:
+
+1. Loads state (the automation service's KV store, or a local JSON file when
+   the store is unavailable).
+2. Computes today's UTC date and **stops immediately if it is already
+   recorded** - no feed is fetched, so an extra run inside a finished day costs
+   one state read.
+3. Otherwise fetches every feed with a 20-second timeout and a 4 MB cap, and
+   parses RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF and Atom by local element name. A feed that
+   fails, is not XML, or is XML that is not a feed is recorded and skipped. The
+   run fails only if *every* feed fails.
+4. Selects the stories: not already covered, and published within
+   `LOOKBACK_HOURS` (undated stories are treated as current rather than
+   dropped). The newest `MAX_ITEMS` survive. Subject is deliberately not a
+   filter here.
+5. If none survive, records the check, says which stage emptied it, and
+   **leaves the day unclaimed** so a later run can try again. No conversation,
+   no tokens.
+6. Otherwise claims the day in state *before* the slow work, so an overlapping
+   run cannot write the digest twice, then starts an OpenHands conversation
+   with the stories **and the topics** in its prompt, an empty secrets payload
+   and no MCP servers, working in `{WORKSPACE_BASE}/news-digest/{date}`. The
+   agent decides which stories are relevant before it writes anything.
+7. When the conversation reaches `idle`, `finished`, `error` or `stuck`:
+   - reads `digest.md` from the working directory, falling back to the agent's
+     final message;
+   - prints the digest into the run log and keeps its opening in state;
+   - records the stories as covered **only now**, so a run that failed leaves
+     them for the next one;
+   - removes the working directory once the conversation is confirmed stopped.
+8. Prunes the task history to the last 14 days and the seen-list to 1000
+   fingerprints, both so the state document stays inside the KV store's 64 KB
+   value limit.
+
+### How a story is recognised again
+
+Two fingerprints per story: one over the feed's own identifier (`guid`/`id`),
+one over its link with the host lowercased, the fragment removed and campaign
+parameters stripped. A story counts as already covered if **either** matches.
+Both are needed - a feed whose links carry a per-fetch campaign tag is only
+recognisable by its identifier, and two publishers syndicating the same article
+agree on nothing *but* the link.
+
+---
+
+## Additional Resources
+
+- **`references/state-schema.md`** - State JSON schema and the task lifecycle.
+- **`scripts/main.py`** - The complete automation script.
+
+---
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+| Symptom | Likely cause | Fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| Every run says "Nothing new to digest" | Nothing was published, or it was all covered already | The run log now names which of the two it was; the digest covers what the topics miss only if the feeds carry it at all |
+| The digest ignores a topic you care about | The feeds do not carry stories about it | Add a feed that does; the agent can only choose from what was fetched |
+| A feed reports "not a feed" | The URL serves a web page, not the feed | Find the real feed URL - it is usually linked from the page as `application/rss+xml` |
+| A feed reports an HTTP 403 | The host blocks unknown readers | Use a different feed for that source; this automation sends no credentials by design |
+| The digest is thin and full of "Headlines" | Those feeds carry titles only | Expected for Hacker News and similar; add a feed that publishes summaries, such as Ars Technica |
+| Nothing happens after a manual dispatch | Today is already recorded in state | Read the previous run's log for the digest, or clear today's entry from the state document |
+| A day was missed entirely | The run failed, or the service was down | The next run covers it: the lookback window is 48 hours and failed runs deliberately remember nothing |
+| Digest repeats a story | Two feeds identify the same article differently, and neither the guid nor the canonical link matched | Expected occasionally; the prompt asks the agent to merge duplicate coverage it can see |

package/skills/news-digest/commands/news-digest-setup.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+# auto-generated by sync_extensions.py
+description: Create an automation that reads a list of public RSS and Atom feeds on a schedule - daily by default - keeps what is new and matches the configured topics, and has an agent write a short digest of it. It needs no credentials: the feeds are public URLs and the conversation is started with no secrets and no MCP servers.
+---
+
+Read and follow the complete instructions in the SKILL.md file located in this skill's directory.
+
+$ARGUMENTS

package/skills/news-digest/references/state-schema.md

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+# State Schema
+
+The automation maintains a single JSON state document, persisted across runs.
+It is the source of truth for which days have been handled, which stories have
+already been reported, which conversation is still active, and which working
+directory is still on disk.
+
+---
+
+## Storage
+
+**Primary (cloud):** the automation service's KV store, key `state`, available
+when `AUTOMATION_KV_TOKEN` is injected.
+
+**Fallback (local/dev):**
+
+```
+{WORKSPACE_BASE_ROOT}/automation-state/news_digest_{automation_id}.json
+```
+
+`WORKSPACE_BASE_ROOT` is two levels up from `WORKSPACE_BASE`, stripping
+`automation-runs/{run_id}`; `automation_id` comes from `AUTOMATION_EVENT_PAYLOAD`.
+
+The KV store caps a value at 64 KB. Everything below is bounded so the document
+stays comfortably inside it however long the automation runs - which matters
+here more than for a weekly automation, because a daily key writes a record a
+day forever.
+
+---
+
+## Top-Level Schema
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "updated_at": 1717200000.0,
+
+  // Set on every run that actually read the feeds. A run that stopped at the
+  // "today is done" check does not touch it.
+  "last_checked": 1717200000.0,
+
+  // What each selection stage left, from the same run. A digest that came out
+  // empty is explained by whichever of these is zero.
+  "last_funnel": { "fetched": 60, "unseen": 12, "fresh": 9 },
+
+  // Up to ten feed failures from the last run that read them, each truncated
+  // to 200 characters. Diagnostic only; nothing branches on it.
+  "last_feed_errors": ["https://example.test/feed: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error"],
+
+  // Story fingerprints already reported, oldest first, capped at 1000 - about
+  // two per story, so roughly five hundred stories. See "Fingerprints" below.
+  "seen": ["3f2a9c1b7d4e8a05", "…"],
+
+  // The most recent digest, in one slot rather than one per day. Keeping every
+  // digest here would overrun the value limit inside a fortnight.
+  "last_digest": {
+    "period": "2026-08-20",
+    "conversation_url": "https://app.all-hands.dev/conversations/…",
+    "written_at": 1717200000.0,
+    "text": "…first 4000 characters…"
+  },
+
+  // One record per day, keyed `news:{YYYY-MM-DD}`, pruned to the last 14.
+  "tasks": {}
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+## Task Record
+
+```jsonc
+"news:2026-08-20": {
+  "period": "2026-08-20",
+  "status": "active",
+  "conversation_id": "6ceaa97a-…",
+  "conversation_url": "https://…/conversations/6ceaa97a-…",  // set at finalize
+  "workspace_dir": "/workspace/news-digest/2026-08-20",       // removed with the directory
+  "item_keys": ["3f2a9c1b7d4e8a05", "…"],                     // dropped at finalize
+  "item_count": 12,
+  "last_activity": 1717200000.0,
+  "completed_at": 1717203600.0,   // set once the conversation stopped
+  "expired_after": 7213.4         // only on `expired`
+}
+```
+
+### Statuses
+
+| Status | Meaning | Stories remembered? |
+|---|---|---|
+| `starting` | The day is claimed; the conversation does not exist yet | no |
+| `active` | The conversation is running | no |
+| `completed` | A digest was produced and printed | **yes** |
+| `empty` | The conversation stopped without writing anything | no |
+| `failed` | The conversation ended `error` or `stuck` | no |
+| `expired` | Never reached a terminal status within `MAX_ACTIVE_AGE` (2h) | no |
+
+Only `completed` widens `seen`. That is the whole recovery story: because the
+lookback window (48h) is wider than the schedule, every other outcome leaves its
+stories to be picked up by the next run rather than losing them.
+
+---
+
+## Lifecycle
+
+```
+                 today already in tasks ──> stop (no feeds fetched)
+                             │
+   run starts ──> fetch feeds ──> select stories
+                             │
+              nothing new ───┴──> record last_checked, leave the day UNCLAIMED
+                             │
+              stories ───────┴──> write `starting` and PERSIST
+                                        │
+                                  create workspace + conversation
+                                        │
+                          success ──> `active`      failure ──> drop the claim,
+                                        │                       remove the workspace
+                    (a later run polls) │
+                                        ▼
+                          terminal ──> read digest.md, else the final message
+                                        │
+                        digest ─────────┴──> `completed`, widen `seen`,
+                                             print it, remove the workspace
+                        no digest ──────────> `empty`
+                        error/stuck ────────> `failed`
+                        never terminal ─────> `expired` after 2h
+```
+
+### Why the day is claimed before the slow work
+
+State is otherwise written only at the end of a run. An overlapping run - a
+retry, a manual dispatch landing on a cron tick - would read no record for today
+and start a second conversation over the same stories. Writing `starting`
+first closes that window. A claim left behind by a run that died before creating
+its conversation is released after `STALLED_CLAIM_SECONDS` (15 minutes), which
+is far longer than fetching a feed list.
+
+### Why "nothing new" does not claim the day
+
+A feed that has not published yet looks exactly like a feed with nothing to
+say. Claiming the day on an empty result would mean the first run of the morning
+silently cancels the rest of the day. Instead the day stays open: later runs
+re-check, at the cost of one HTTP request per feed and no tokens at all.
+
+---
+
+## Fingerprints
+
+Each story contributes up to two 16-character SHA-256 prefixes to `seen`:
+
+1. the feed's own identifier (`guid` in RSS, `id` in Atom), and
+2. its link, with the scheme and host lowercased, the fragment and any trailing
+   slash removed, and `utm_*` parameters stripped.
+
+A story is treated as already covered if **either** matches. Both are needed:
+a feed whose links carry a per-fetch campaign tag is only recognisable by its
+identifier, and two publishers syndicating the same article agree on nothing
+*but* the link.
+
+Hashes rather than the values themselves, because identifiers range from a short
+guid to a long URL and the document has a size ceiling. They are one-way, so
+`seen` cannot be read back to reconstruct what was covered - `last_digest` and
+the conversations are where that is kept.
+
+---
+
+## Pruning
+
+| Field | Cap | Rule |
+|---|---|---|
+| `seen` | 1000 fingerprints | Oldest evicted first |
+| `tasks` | 14 records | Oldest evicted first, but never one that is `starting`/`active` or still holds a `workspace_dir` |
+| `last_digest.text` | 4000 characters | Truncated |
+| `last_feed_errors` | 10 entries, 200 characters each | Truncated |
+
+A task still holding a `workspace_dir` is never pruned, because that record is
+the only thing that knows a directory is waiting to be removed.