The Agenthood news digest now writes itself
Every Agenthood release used to end with the same chore: read the changelog, summarize what actually changed, and write the news post by hand. It was accurate, but it did not scale — and it is exactly the kind of task an agent should own. Today we shipped the daily news digest agent ( PR #64 ). A scheduled GitHub Action fetches new releases, asks an LLM to draft the digest in the house style,…
The Agenthood news digest now writes itself, streamlining the process through automation. A scheduled GitHub Action fetches new releases, drafts the digest using an LLM, validates it against contract rules, and opens a pull request for review. The digest is live, showcasing the workflow and trust boundaries involved. The workflow includes fetching releases from the Agenthood repo, formatting them as a prompt for the LLM, validating the draft, writing the content, and opening a PR for human review.
The validation contract ensures the LLM output meets strict criteria, such as matching the title with the first heading, non-empty author and summary, and proper YAML escaping. The Reviewer caught a bug where author not escaping in the front matter could cause corruption, which was fixed by escaping it like title and summary. The digest agent covers the news page, with potential next steps including letting The Herald draft release notes and The Mailman handle cross-posting.
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