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Content Research Agent

Marketing · by RelayNew0 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 run: the AI processes it against your settings and records the result.
4
You stay in control
Watch runs land on the skill page, chat with the agent about what it did, tune thresholds anytime, pause whenever.

Configuration you can tune

topicsAI agents, marketing automation
trusted_sourcestechcrunch.com, theverge.com, arstechnica.com

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

Pipeline

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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