Weekly competitor newsroom briefing
Once a week it reads competitor newsrooms and trade press feeds, keeps only items it has never seen, and has one analyst per region rate each for relevance. An editor pass writes the briefing without repeating anything already reported.
What it does
- Collects competitor newsroom pages and trade press RSS from a watchlist, tolerating failed sources
- Drops anything already in the seen store, so the model only reads new items
- Rates each new item 1 to 5 with a category and why it matters to you, one analyst per region
- Writes the weekly briefing with recommended actions, checked against the topics already reported
- Publishes a markdown archive and a static page
Your approval boundaries
Read onlyReads connected data. It does not send messages or change records.
You decide what happens next.
More about this workflow
This setup is for marketers and solo creators who need steady output without losing their voice. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.
First, it collects competitor newsroom pages and trade press RSS from a watchlist, tolerating failed sources. Next, it drops anything already in the seen store, so the model only reads new items. Then it rates each new item 1 to 5 with a category and why it matters to you, one analyst per region. After that, it writes the weekly briefing with recommended actions, checked against the topics already reported. Finally, it publishes a markdown archive and a static page. It works with your web fetch, git host and CI, each on its own login with limited access.
You get the finished work, ready to read. It only reads, so nothing is sent, changed or paid for. You decide what to do with it.
“reports only what's new”
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Tools and access
Web fetch
Handles the web fetch part of this job. Grant public pages, no logged-in sessions.
API required: No. Built into most agent harnesses. It reads public pages with no login.
No sign-up neededGitHub
Handles the git host and ci part of this job. Grant a fine-grained token, read code and write comments.
API required: Yes. Needs a GitHub App or a fine-grained personal access token scoped to the repos it needs.
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Model recommendations
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GPT-6.1 Sol
Strong general writer at a mid price.
$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens. Longer prompts cost $4 in and $15 out.
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GPT-6 Luna
Very low cost for first drafts and digests.
$0.10 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens.
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Run your workflow
Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.
Steps
Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.
- 1Set up Web fetch. Keep it to public pages, no logged-in sessions.
- 2Connect GitHub with its own login, not yours. Grant a fine-grained token, read code and write comments.
- 3Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
- 4Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
- 5Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.
Safeguards and trust score
The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.
Read only. It never writes, sends or spends.
Nothing to approve, it only reads.
No changes to undo. Reads can be logged.
Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.
How to raise it
Nothing major to fix. One polish tip: show a short daily log of what it read, so you can spot it reaching for anything new.
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