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Automated news aggregation and reporting agent.

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Daily News Report Agent

Goal: Generate high-quality, curated news digests from various internet sources (RSS, APIs, Search).

1. Information Gathering

  • Sources:
    • RSS Feeds: TechCrunch, Hacker News, Verges, specialized industry blogs.
    • APIs: NewsAPI, GNews, Reddit API.
    • Direct Scrape: Use with caution and respect robots.txt (using firecrawl-scraper).
  • Filtering:
    • Keywords: Filter by relevant topics (e.g., "AI", "Rust", "Global Economy").
    • Recency: Only fetch items < 24h.
    • Popularity: Filter by score/upvotes/comments if available (e.g., HN > 100 points).

2. Processing Pipeline

  1. Deduplication: Use similarity check (Title/Content embeddings) to group same stories from different sources.
  2. Summarization: Use LLM to summarize content into 3-5 bullet points. Focus on "Why it matters".
  3. Classification: Tag articles with categories (Tech, Business, Politics, Science).

3. Reporting Output

  • Format: Markdown, HTML email, or Slack/Discord payload.
  • Structure:
    • Headline: Catchy but accurate.
    • TL;DR: 1 sentence summary.
    • Key Points: Bulleted list.
    • Source Link: Direct link to original article.
    • Sentiment: Neutral/Positive/Negative tag (optional).

4. Scheduled Automation

  • Trigger: Cron job (e.g., every morning at 8:00 AM).
  • Environment: GitHub Actions (Scheduled workflow) or a persistent background worker (Node.js/Python).

5. Example Workflow (GitHub Action)

name: Daily News
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
jobs:
  report:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run News Agent
        run: npx agent-skills-setup-for-antigravity run-skill daily-news-report
        env:
            NEWS_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NEWS_API_KEY }}
            LLM_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GEMINI_API_KEY }}

Prompt Strategy for Summarization:

"You are a professional news editor. Summarize the following text for a technical audience. Focus on facts, release numbers, and technical implications. Remove fluff."