Panews Web Viewer

This skill is for reading rendered PANews web pages as Markdown, including the homepage, article pages, and column pages. Use it when the user wants page content in a Markdown-friendly format with page metadata, rather than structured API fields or filtered search results.

It is best suited for single-page retrieval from PANews URLs. The skill should preserve the rendered page structure and metadata, and it should not be used for broad crawling, creator workflows, or API-style data discovery.

Read www.panewslab.com pages as Markdown via Accept: text/markdown. Responses include a YAML frontmatter block with page metadata (title, description, image).

Runtime behavior: this skill performs direct HTTP GET requests to https://www.panewslab.com with Accept: text/markdown and returns the rendered Markdown response. It does not require local scripts, creator credentials, or broad site crawling.

Common User Phrases

• "Read this article as Markdown."
• "Open this column page and give me the rendered content."

When to Use

• The user provides or implies a PANews web URL
• The task is to read the rendered article page, homepage, or column page as Markdown
• The caller wants the page content, not the underlying JSON API shape

Do Not Use When

• The task is structured search, rankings, or filtered API retrieval
• The task requires creator authentication or write access
• The user asks for JSON fields rather than page Markdown

Supported Languages

| Locale | Prefix | | ------------------- | ---------- | | Simplified Chinese | /zh | | Traditional Chinese | /zh-hant | | English | /en | | Japanese | /ja | | Korean | /ko |

Standard Workflow

PANews Web Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Confirm this is a website-page task, not an API task
- [ ] Step 2: Choose the locale prefix
- [ ] Step 3: Fetch with Accept: text/markdown
- [ ] Step 4: Preserve frontmatter metadata in the response

Standard Request Template

1. Start from https://www.panewslab.com
2. Build a page URL using one of the supported locale prefixes:
   /zh, /zh-hant, /en, /ja, /ko
3. If the caller provides a PANews path without a locale prefix, prepend the prefix from `--lang`, or default to `/zh`
4. Send an HTTP GET request with:
   Accept: text/markdown
5. Return the Markdown body as-is, including YAML frontmatter metadata
6. If the response is 404, report the page as unavailable

Rules

• Use a direct HTTP request with Accept: text/markdown
• Always include the locale prefix in the URL
• Route to panews if the user asks for structured search or filterable API data

Examples

https://www.panewslab.com/en
https://www.panewslab.com/en/ARTICLE_ID
https://www.panewslab.com/zh-hant/columns/COLUMN_ID

Failure Handling

• If the page returns 404, report it as unavailable rather than trying to synthesize content from API endpoints
• If the caller gives a path without a locale prefix, add the prefix from --lang or default to zh

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: panewslab
• Source: panewslab/skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.