# AI Release Hunter

Daily digest of AI releases from Anthropic, Meta, Vercel Labs, OpenAI and Google GitHub...

- Repository: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates (33041 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill ai-release-hunter -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill ai-release-hunter -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill ai-release-hunter -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill ai-release-hunter -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Daily digest of AI releases from Anthropic, Meta, Vercel Labs, OpenAI and Google GitHub repos, the Claude Cowork changelog, the claude.dev blog and Hacker News, deduplicated against a local state file and sent by email. Use when the user asks for a daily AI news digest, to scan AI labs for new releases, or to set up a scheduled release-hunter job.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# AI Release Hunter (Anthropic + Meta + Vercel + OpenAI + Google + Hacker News)

Scans the public AI repos of Anthropic, Meta, Vercel Labs, OpenAI and Google on GitHub, plus the Claude Cowork changelog, the claude.dev blog and Hacker News, and emails a digest of the day's relevant movements. Designed to run once a day as a scheduled job (cron, a Claude Code routine, or `/loop`).

## Configuration

Set these before the first run. Every path is relative to the working directory unless you choose otherwise.

| Setting | Default | Purpose |
|---------|---------|---------|
| `RECIPIENT_EMAIL` | *(required)* | Address that receives the digest |
| `SEND_COMMAND` | *(required)* | Command that sends an email given a recipient, subject and body file (e.g. a Gmail CLI, `mail` or `sendmail`; to send through an MCP tool instead, add it to `allowed-tools`) |
| `STATE_DIR` | `.release-hunter/state/` | Deduplication state (`seen.json`) |
| `SNAPSHOT_DIR` | `.release-hunter/snapshots/` | Page snapshots (Vercel Labs, Cowork changelog) |
| `OUTPUT_DIR` | `.release-hunter/output/` | Email bodies and run logs |
| `EMAIL_LANGUAGE` | Spanish | Language of the email |
| `EMAIL_SUBJECT` | `IA: novedades del día (Anthropic + Meta + Vercel + OpenAI + Google + Hacker News)` | Subject line |
| `AUDIENCE` | the user's audience | Who the "why it matters" lines are written for (e.g. a YouTube channel, a team) |

Suggested schedule: daily at ~08:00 in the user's time zone.

Add `.release-hunter/` to `.gitignore` so state, snapshots and email bodies are never committed. The scan makes well over 60 GitHub API calls per run, so a `GITHUB_TOKEN` is strongly recommended (see below).

## Watched sources

### Anthropic (GitHub org `anthropics`)
- anthropics/claude-code
- anthropics/claude-cookbooks
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript
- anthropics/courses

The rest: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/blob/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/ai-release-hunter/SKILL.md