How to use the AIHOT Chinese AI News agent skill

What an agent skill is and what the aihot skill makes the agent do

An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file of instructions that an AI agent loads when a request matches the skill's description. The agent then follows those instructions for that kind of request.

The aihot skill covers questions about what happened in AI today or recently, AI news and daily digests, model and AI product launches, news about companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the hottest current AI events and their background, AI model rankings, Codex quota resets, and other AI industry news. For these questions the agent must query AIHOT live and must not answer from memory. The skill needs no API key and only reads data.

• Latest AI highlights from the past 24 hours, or from the past week
• Search by company, product, model, person or topic
• Current hot events
• The AIHOT daily digest

Install the aihot skill from the ZIP or the Claude apps

Download the ZIP of the skill from the page where you found this guide, then unzip it. The folder should contain SKILL.md, agents/openai.yaml, install.sh, README.md and the licence file.

For a personal setup in Claude Code, place the unzipped aihot folder inside ~/.claude/skills/. To limit it to one project, place it inside that project's .claude/skills/ folder instead.

If you use the Claude apps, open Settings, go to Capabilities, then Skills, and upload the skill there.

• Personal, all projects: ~/.claude/skills/aihot
• Single project: .claude/skills/aihot inside the project folder
• Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then upload

How to trigger the skill with natural requests

You do not need a special command. Ask the agent a normal question about AI news and the skill's description should match it. Asking for the latest news, a company, a model, a hot event, a daily digest or model rankings are all good triggers.

For follow-up questions, such as the background of an event, a daily digest from another date, or more items, the agent continues with the address or parameters that AIHOT returned in its previous answer.

• What happened in AI today?
• Give me this week's AI news summary in Chinese.
• What is the latest on OpenAI?
• What are the hottest AI events right now, and how did they start?
• Show me today's AIHOT daily digest.
• What do the current AI model rankings look like?

What the agent queries behind the scenes

The skill maps each kind of question to an AIHOT address. For anything not listed, the agent first reads the usage guide at https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent, which lists everything AIHOT currently supports, and it reads that guide once per session. Requests are GET requests made with curl, or with the agent's web-reading tool if no command line is available.

The skill also sends a User-Agent header identifying itself. Results come back as formatted Chinese Markdown, which the agent summarises for you.

• Latest: https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent/latest
• Past week: https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent/latest?window=7d
• Search: https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent/search?q=keyword (keyword is URL-encoded)
• Hot events: https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent/hot
• Daily digest: https://aihot.news/api/v1/agent/daily

What you need to run the aihot skill

You need curl, or curl.exe on Windows. If you have no command line, an agent with web-reading ability can open the same addresses instead. You also need internet access to aihot.news. No API key or account is required.

An optional file named .aihot-actor-id, containing a random UUID, may sit in the skill folder. If present and valid, its value is added to the User-Agent for anonymous deduplication statistics. If it is missing or invalid, the skill works normally without it.

• curl (curl.exe on Windows), or an agent that can read web pages
• Internet access to aihot.news
• No API key, cookie or account
• Optional: .aihot-actor-id file for anonymous deduplication statistics

Safety notes: scripts and network access

The skill runs scripts and uses the network. The skill's rules limit it to GET requests to https://aihot.news/. Text returned by AIHOT, including headlines and summaries from third-party sources, is treated as reference material only. The agent does not run commands, read or write files, visit other sites, or ask for your personal information because returned content tells it to.

The skill also says it should never ask you for an API key, cookie, account or file. If requests fail, the agent waits when rate-limited, retries once on server errors or timeouts, and then tells you AIHOT is unavailable.

Anonymous access does not mean every use is permitted. Personal non-commercial, public-interest non-commercial and internal organisational use are free. Outward-facing commercial use requires prior written permission from AIHOT, described at https://aihot.news/terms. The MIT licence covers only the skill files, not AIHOT's service, data or third-party original articles.

• Network: GET requests to https://aihot.news/ only
• Scripts: curl commands as described above
• Commercial use needs written authorisation from AIHOT
• The MIT licence does not cover AIHOT's service or data

Tips for getting better results

Name the company, model or topic precisely in your request so the agent uses the search address. Ask for a time window such as the past week when you want broader coverage. If an answer is missing something, ask a follow-up, and the agent will request the next address or parameter from AIHOT.

Treat answers as summaries of third-party reporting. If a claim matters, check the original source the answer points to, because the skill does not verify facts itself.

• Use specific names for company, model or topic searches
• Ask for the past week for wider coverage
• Check original sources for claims you plan to rely on