News Clips Channel
News Clips Channel is a template that builds an agent team that manages an entire social media account for you, finding the key moments in news broadcasts and cutting them into captioned clips. This lets you post the biggest moment of a story while it is still news.
It uses the same agent team, schedule and setup questions as Naive Clipping v1, and every agent also gets the naive/channel-template-news skill for this niche.
By naïve·media/news v2.1.3
What it is
You pick the news feeds and channels to clip from, which must be ones you have the rights to, and how often to post. The agent team checks those sources for new coverage, picks the announcement, quote or on-camera moment that explains the story on its own, cuts it into a vertical clip with captions that say who, what and when, and writes the title and hashtags. If it cannot confirm the rights to a clip, it flags it instead of posting it. Each clip waits for your approval before it posts, and the team reports which clips did best.
It only clips from sources you named and have the rights to. If it cannot confirm the rights to a clip, it flags it and does not post it.
It picks the few moments that explain the story, not the whole broadcast.
Each clip covers one story in 15 to 60 seconds, with captions so it works with the sound off.
Every clip waits in your review queue with its caption written. Nothing posts until you approve it.
Ideal for Newsrooms and news creators that want clips posted across several accounts without cutting them by hand.
The week it runs
media/news · v2.1.3 · published Oct 1, 2026
3 timers are provisioned with this template — 15 unattended runs a week. Each fire opens a session with the message excerpted below and spends against its own cap, which the studio prints before you deploy.
- 06:00every day at 06:00scout0 6 * * *America/New_York
Watch the references. Read project_context, the newest weekly report card and the Cut cards already on the board (board_read). Check each named reference…
- 07:30every Monday at 07:30analyst30 7 * * 1America/New_York
Write the weekly report. Read project_context, the Publish cards closed in the last seven days (board_read, status done) for their post ids, and their numbers…
- 09:05every day at 09:05analyst5 9 * * *America/New_York
Daily performance check. If social.post_metrics is not offered, no account is connected yet: say so in one line and stop — never request_tools for a social…
The Agent Team
read from the media release
The 5 agents naive up provisions into your organization — the role each holds, the tools it is allowed, the skills it was taught, the timers it owns and the first thing it is told. An agent marked required cannot be left out of an install; the rest are yours to decline.
channel-manager
Channel leadrequiredRuns the channel: publishes each finished piece on the cadence you chose — every post waits for your approval — and reads the weekly report.
toolsask_operatorboard_readboard_writebrowser… 12 more tools
skillsnaive/caption-writingnaive/channel-template-news
No timer — works when you ask it to.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
clipper
Clip productionCuts each moment the scout picked into one vertical clip and hands it to the caption editor. Never cuts from a channel the context does not name.
toolsask_operatorboard_readboard_writebrowser… 9 more tools
skillsnaive/clip-selectionnaive/channel-template-news
No timer — works when you ask it to.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
scout
Source watchWatches the named reference channels for new episodes and starts each moment worth cutting as a Cut card, with the reasoning.
toolsask_operatorboard_readboard_writebrowser… 8 more tools
skillsnaive/clip-selectionnaive/channel-template-news
1 timer·06:00
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
caption-editor
Captions & titlesWrites the title, caption and hashtags on every clip, credits the original creator, and hands it to the channel manager to publish.
toolsask_operatorboard_readboard_writebrowser… 8 more tools
skillsnaive/caption-writingnaive/channel-template-news
No timer — works when you ask it to.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
analyst
PerformanceRecords every post's numbers daily and reports weekly, by source and by clip, on what to cut more and less of.
toolsask_operatorboard_readboard_writebrowser… 8 more tools
skillsnaive/channel-reportnaive/channel-template-news
2 timers·07:3009:05
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
You will be asked
read from the media release
Answered in the studio before anything is provisioned, and read by every agent before it acts. Configuration only — a secret is a vault credential or an app secret, never an answer. You can change the answers later.
- 01
Channels to cut from
The crew cuts from these and nowhere else.
Channel or playlist URLs, one per line
- 02
Who sees a new YouTube video?
YouTube only. Left blank, videos go up unlisted, so you can check one before anyone finds it.
UnlistedPublicPrivate - 03
Posting cadence
daily3× a weekweekly
Skills
read from the media release
The procedures the agent team loads before it works — what to read first, what to file where, what never to do. naive/ names the platform's own catalogue, which the studio's Skills screen carries; a bare slug is a skill the template ships itself.
What stays yours
The same three rules across every template. They are the blueprint's, not the agents' — an agent cannot widen them.
Nothing publishes itself
Every tool that acts outside your organization — a post, an email, a reply — is granted
ask, notallow. The call parks the session with its arguments in front of you and waits. Approval is a person, every time.A budget it cannot raise
A daily cap per agent and a cap per task, declared in the template and enforced by the platform. A run that would exceed its cap stops rather than spends.
Denied by default
An agent is offered the tools its template names and nothing else. Everything it was not granted is denied by name — the shell included, which is also why a content agent never provisions a machine it would not use.
What it ships
v2.1.3
A template is a repo: the apps below, their server, and a naive.config.ts declaring the agent team. Clone it, bind it to your organization, bring it up.
- $ naive template media --template news# clone the blueprint repo
- $ naive claim --key sk_...# bind the clone to your organization
- $ naive up# provision the apps, the agents, their budgets
The number
This template has not been measured on its own yet. This is the number for Naive Clipping v1, which runs the same agent team, measured on live accounts against a control group.
Launch News Clips Channel
5 agents, 0 apps, a budget. One command.