News Information Finder

This folder contains a no-code agent that acts as a general-purpose news research tool. Unlike the domain-specific news agents, this agent has access to all news collections and all web search tools, making it useful for cross-domain queries or topics that span multiple categories.

This agent is designed to be used as a sub-agent of the News Orchestrator, but can also be used standalone.

Note: Before configuring this agent, you must set up:

1. The News Search Tools MCP server.
2. News custom sources and collections for each domain. See the News Custom Source example (create one source per category: business, health, tech, etc.).
3. An NYT front pages custom source and collection. See the NYT Front Page Custom Source example.
4. Make sure to set up automations to re-vectorize each collection on its source’s schedule.

Input to This Agent Experiment

Retrieval Settings - System Prompt

Any system prompt works for this agent. This is a no-code agent, so the LLM uses the agent card and tools to determine how to respond.

Tools

From the News Search Tools MCP server, add:

• search_nyt_headlines
• search_reddit
• search_internet
• search_yahoo_finance_news

Collections

Add all of your news collections. These should include collections created from the News Custom Source (Business, Health, Science and Tech, etc.) as well as the NYT Front Page collection. Enable agentic retrieval on each collection.

Environment Variables (optional)

No environment variables are required for this example.

Agent Card

Configure the agent card with the following skills:

skills:
  - name: Find information about a topic
    description: ""
    examples:
      - Tell me what's going on in Iran
      - How are robotics technologies coming along?
      - Who is Alysa Liu?

  - name: Search reddit
    description: ""
    examples:
      - Find info on reddit about nuclear energy news
      - What are people on reddit saying about the AI bubble lately?

  - name: Search the internet
    description: ""
    examples:
      - Search the internet for information about the Davos Economic Forum
      - Can you find info on the internet about sportswashing
      - Look up the latest news on renewable energy investments

  - name: Search NYT headlines
    description: ""
    examples:
      - What are the latest NYT headlines related to what's going on in Iran?
      - What is the NYT saying about the winter olympics?
      - What are the latest NYT headlines about OpenAI?