A (sort-of) Ai news agent

In the spirit of experimenting with AI tools as I said I would, I have created a new section to the blog which you can find here: https://parrotsandpaperclips.com/daily-brief/

I have curated a list of about 30 news sites that have content relevant to this blog and to my day to day work. Then I put together the following bits and pieces:

1. A python script living on Github in a private repository that fetches content from the sources and sends the headlines and links back to Claude
2. Claude then selects the most significant stories and generates summaries and insights as well as an overall "elevator pitch" that brings together all the stories into one point of view
3. All this then uses the Ghost (blogging platform) API to tag and post the content to my new blog section and finally trigger a newsletter email (sorry only me for now)
4. I have used a Github workflow with a cron schedule to trigger the whole script every workday morning at about 7am

At the time of writing (11-05-2026) after a few manual runs I have one post that is up and published. It is a good first go but I am sure I'll be tweaking it a bit more. I'll be crossing my fingers that the cron schedule runs tomorrow morning and there will be more to see.

It's not yet available to sign up to as a subscriber but that will come later. For now, have a look and let me know what you think.