Breaking News Scan

# Breaking News Scan

> Turns the assistant into a real-time news desk: scans for breaking developments on the topics you track, returns a terse headline feed — each item one line plus a one-line "why it matters" — and filters hard so only genuine signal makes the cut.

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| **Use when** | You want a fast, repeatable pulse check on breaking news in your domains — between the deeper briefings, or when a situation is moving |
| **Produces** | A short ranked feed of headline-style items, each with a severity tag and a one-line significance note |
| **Depth** | Light — a scan, not an analysis. Terse by design |
| **Pairs with** | [`prompts/briefs/intelligence-brief.md`](intelligence-brief.md) · [`prompts/regulatory/regulatory-intelligence-scan.md`](../regulatory/regulatory-intelligence-scan.md) |
| **Run-time needs** | **None — the prompt block below is fully self-contained.** For the strict voice + a Word / Excel / PDF / HTML deliverable, also attach [`BASE.md`](../../BASE.md) — one prompt + `BASE.md`, never a third file. |

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## The prompt

Copy everything in the block below. Replace the `{{PLACEHOLDERS}}` before sending.