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Built a semi-autonomous research agent that actually saves me time instead of creating more work to manage
by r/AI_Agents poster · not retrieved
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Read the original ↗Part 1 · What the source did
A daily job pulls 15 curated sources, lets a model reject most items as irrelevant, checks the rest against existing notes, and saves short summaries for a weekly digest.
- Cron pulls arXiv, blogs and subreddits.
- Claude filters by stated interests and rejects about 80%.
- Deduplicates against existing notes.
- Writes 2–3 sentence summaries to Notion and compiles a Sunday digest.
“Rejects roughly 80% as not relevant enough.”— r/AI_Agents poster, Reddit
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Part 2 · Our copy-paste version
Adapted by us from what the source described. Fill in the [BRACKETS].
The prompt
Daily: for each new item from [SOURCES], decide RELEVANT or NOT for these interests: [LIST]. Be strict.
For relevant items, search my notes [NOTES LOCATION]. If I already have this idea, skip it.
Otherwise save: title, link, 2–3 sentence summary, why it's new to me.
Sunday: compile the week's saved items into a digest grouped by theme.
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Approval ruleRead and save only; you decide what to act on.
Set it up
- List 10–15 sources and your interests.
- Run daily for a week and check rejected items once.
- Turn on the Sunday digest.
Common failures
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What usually goes wrong
- Interests too broad means nothing gets filtered.
Variations
- Grok Bot routine with web + X search.