Newsletter Curator AI Agent

What this agent does

Writing a weekly newsletter is really two jobs — finding what's worth sharing, and turning it into readable prose — and the first job is the one that quietly eats the most time. This agent does the finding and the first draft: it scans your sources for the week, picks the strongest items, and hands you a ready-to-edit issue.

1. source-scanner — pulls new items since the last issue from your configured sources (RSS feeds, a saved-articles list, or a Read-It-Later export) and filters out anything off-topic for your newsletter.
2. issue-drafter — picks the strongest 5-8 items, writes a one-paragraph summary for each with a suggested commentary hook (a question or opinion prompt for you to expand on), and assembles the full issue in your configured template.

Every run saves the drafted issue as a Markdown file ready to paste into your email platform (Substack, ConvertKit, Beehiiv — any of them accept Markdown or simple HTML).

Requirements

• At least one content source: RSS feed URLs, or a Read-It-Later export (Pocket, Instapaper).
• Works on Claude AI (claude.ai with web search/RSS fetch, or Claude Code) and on OpenClaw (scheduled trigger + RSS plugin).

Setup

1. Unzip the package into your workspace, keeping the folder structure intact.
2. Edit config/newsletter-sources.md with your RSS feed URLs and topic filter keywords.
3. Edit config/issue-template.md to match your newsletter's actual structure (intro, sections, sign-off).
4. Run the starter prompt in starter-prompts.md to draft one full issue from this week's sources.
5. Schedule automation-prompt.md for your publishing cadence (weekly is typical).

What's included

• Skills/source-scanner/SKILL.md and Skills/issue-drafter/SKILL.md
• config/newsletter-sources.md — RSS feeds and topic filters
• config/issue-template.md — your newsletter's structure template
• config/issue-archive/ — every drafted issue, dated
• installation-prompt.md — install instructions for Claude AI and OpenClaw
• automation-prompt.md — weekly scheduling instructions
• starter-prompts.md — example prompt for a first draft issue
• assets/ — pipeline diagram