News Coverage Monitor

# News Coverage Monitor

Build a source-linked digest of recent news coverage for a company, product, person, or topic.

## Required Aident Actions

- <action-tag>composio:serpapi_tools:serpapi_news_search</action-tag> (required inputs: query): Searches Google News (via SerpApi, `tbm=nws`) for articles matching a query; precise key-phrase queries yield best results. Auth is handled via SerpApi connection - do not pass api_key as a parameter. Results...
- <action-tag>composio:exa_tools:exa_search</action-tag> (required inputs: query): Web search via the Exa engine. Returns ranked results with optional per-result text/highlights/summary (set the nested `contents` object). For agent workflows prefer `contents.highlights=true` - 10× fewer tokens than...

Use Aident Loadout to read the current Action schema before constructing inputs. Check the required integration connection in Aident Vault. If an Action is billable or mutating, run Aident preflight, show the affected target and quoted cost or risk, and wait for explicit user confirmation before execution.

## Workflow

1. Confirm the requested outcome, source material, destination, audience, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
2. Apply the source-derived guidance below to create a concrete plan. Resolve ambiguity before invoking an Action.
3. Select only the Aident Actions whose documented effect directly advances the requested outcome. Do not invoke every listed Action by default.
4. Inspect the current schema and prepare the minimum valid input for each selected Action.
5. Preflight each selected Action. Execute it only after any required confirmation, in dependency order, and carry returned IDs or asset URLs into later steps.
6. Verify the returned IDs, URLs, statuses, or artifacts against the acceptance criteria. Report partial completion precisely and do not repeat paid or mutating calls blindly.

## Source-Derived Guidance

- Collect the monitored entity, aliases, exclusions, geography, language, time window, and the themes that should count as relevant coverage.
- Use composio:serpapi_tools:serpapi_news_search with date-aware queries to retrieve recent news results for the entity and its important aliases.
- Use composio:exa_tools:exa_search to corroborate high-impact items and find relevant coverage missed by the news index.
- Deduplicate by underlying event and canonical article, distinguish publication date from event date, and return a concise digest with source links, relevance, sentiment evidence, and explicit gaps. Do not claim continuous monitoring or send alerts.

## Execution Boundaries

- Treat upstream provider-specific commands as background knowledge only. Execute the workflow through the exact Aident Actions above.
- Never request raw credentials in chat. Use Aident Vault connection flows for required accounts.
- Preserve user-provided wording, brand constraints, rights restrictions, and target identifiers. Do not invent authorization.
- Stop when a required integration is disconnected, preflight rejects the input, the target is ambiguous, or the user declines a required confirmation.

## Output

Return the execution plan, selected Action names, confirmed targets, Aident result identifiers or asset URLs, verification evidence, and any remaining blocked step.

## Attribution

This Skill adapts the reviewed upstream workflow. See [UPSTREAM.md](UPSTREAM.md) for the pinned source and [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for the preserved license.