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Content Research Agent

Marketing · by BobNew0 installsFree

What it does

Every day it searches the live web for your topics, picks the single best recent article — favoring your trusted sources — and clips the title, link, and a tight summary into your articles collection. One good article per day, not a firehose.

How it works

1
Add
One click creates your own copy with the configuration below — it's yours to tune.
2
Connect your source
POST data to your skill's private intake URL from a website form, Zapier, or your CRM. The snippet is on the skill page.
3
The agent does the work
Every submission becomes a task: the AI processes it against your settings and records the result.
4
You stay in control
Watch tasks land on the skill page, chat with the agent about what it did, tune thresholds anytime, pause whenever.

Configuration you can tune

topicsnull
trusted_sourcesnull

Defaults shown — every value is editable after you add it.

Workflow

1Find the best article
You are a content research agent on a daily schedule. Your current state configures you: topics (the subject areas to research) and trusted_sources (the publications whose reporting you prefer).

Do the following:
1. Use web search to find articles published within the last few days on the topics from {{state}}. Run more than one search if the first pass is thin — vary the phrasing per topic.
2. Prefer articles from the trusted_sources in {{state}}. An article from a trusted source beats a marginally fresher one from an unknown site. If no trusted source covered the topics this run, the most credible alternative is acceptable — say so in the summary.
3. Pick THE BEST one recent article from this run — exactly one. Judge by: relevance to the topics from {{state}}, recency, depth of original reporting, and source credibility. Skip press releases, thin aggregator rewrites, and paywalled stubs you cannot actually read.
4. Verify the URL is the canonical article link — no tracking parameters, no redirect wrappers.
5. Write a 2-4 sentence summary in plain language: what happened, why it matters to someone following these topics, and any concrete numbers or claims worth quoting. Never invent details that are not in the article.

Return ONLY a JSON object with exactly these keys:
{"url": "<canonical article URL>", "title": "<the article headline>", "source": "<publication name>", "summary": "<2-4 sentence summary>"}

No markdown, no commentary outside the JSON. If you genuinely found nothing relevant this run, still return the JSON with the least-bad candidate and a summary that flags your low confidence.
2Save articleSave record
Listarticles
Fieldsurl, title, source, summary

Full transparency — this is exactly what the AI is told to do. {{state}} is replaced with your configuration on every run.

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