Collect security news, research, and ideas from six configured sources, then rank and deduplicate the results into a digest of up to 32 items. Run state tracks previously shown stories so recurring coverage is filtered from later updates.
Aggregates and curates security news from six authoritative sources into a ranked, deduplicated digest across Security News, Research, and Ideas, with stateful tracking to avoid re-surfacing seen items. USE WHEN security news, security updates, breaches, sec updates, tldrsec, Krebs, Schneier, weekly security digest, CISO strategy. NOT FOR stack-specific CVE prioritization against your own tech stack (use your own vulnerability-management tooling), or AI industry news (Upgrade NewsDigest).
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See how to installSecurityUpdates gathers security news, research, and ideas from six configured sources and combines duplicate coverage into a digest of up to 32 items. Items are grouped into categories and ranked by importance within each category, with their sources identified. After a successful run, it records the items shown in a state file. Later runs use that record to filter out previously shown stories, making new developments easier to spot. Settings can add sources or specify topics to emphasize.
Use it to follow developments across the security industry or review key points without visiting several news sites one by one. The categories also help when you want to read news reporting separately from new research.
You can adjust sources and topics in settings. This skill does not prioritize CVEs against your organization’s specific technology stack.
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Aggregates security news from six authoritative sources (§ Sources) into a ranked, deduplicated digest of up to 32 items across three categories: Security News, Security Research, and Security Ideas. A per-item record of what each run showed, kept in last-check.json by Tools/Digest.ts, avoids re-surfacing seen items, so a weekly run shows only what is new instead of the overlapping stories six sites publish on their own cadences.
MEMORY/STATE/SecurityUpdates-last-check.json after each successful run, and the next run's candidates are filtered against it by Tools/Digest.ts (Intents/Update.md § Tool contract).sources.json, swapped or extended through PREFERENCES.md.| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| Update | "security updates", "sec updates", "/secupdates", "what's new in security" | Intents/Update.md |
Default: Run the Update intent.
| File | Read when |
|---|---|
Setup.md | first-time setup: the smallest working PREFERENCES.md, accounts (none) and the proof command |
Tools/Digest.help.md | the state filter, recorder and digest check the Update intent runs |
User customizations, read before each run:
<configRoot>/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/SecurityUpdates/PREFERENCES.md
configRoot is $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set, else ~/.claude.
If the file exists, apply it: it can add sources and say which topics to emphasise or drop, and it overrides default behavior (the 32-item cap and the three categories stay). If it does not exist, proceed with the six default sources; nothing here is required. Setup, a smallest working PREFERENCES.md and the proof command are in Setup.md. Run state is not config: it is written to MEMORY/STATE/SecurityUpdates-last-check.json (shape in Intents/Update.md § Tool contract).
sources.json in the skill root is the one list of the six default sources: id, name, URL, type, and the categories each one feeds.
Custom sources: list them under "Extra sources" in PREFERENCES.md (see Data & Config); sources.json in the skill root holds the six defaults and is overwritten by updates, so do not edit it.
"What's new in security?" → Update intent → a ranked ≤32-item digest of what is new across all six sources since ~/.claude/LIFEOS/MEMORY/STATE/SecurityUpdates-last-check.json was last written, and that state file updated for the next run.
"/secupdates" → same Update intent, slash-command entry.
Second run same day → only items whose keys are not already in the state file surface; an empty digest with "no new items since last check" is the correct result, not a failure.
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