News Radar

Data Sources

• Use $browser-use for research and discovery
• Default source set:
  • X timeline: use $x-trend-research as the X source collector
  • Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
  • Reddit Tech News hot: https://www.reddit.com/r/technews/hot/
• When the user provides a URL, open that URL first in browser-use.
• Prioritize AI startup launches, model releases, tooling updates, funding, product announcements, and major breaking news
• Prefer recency and cross-source repetition over vanity metrics alone
• When X is part of the requested scope, prefer consuming the artifact produced by $x-trend-research rather than redoing X collection from scratch

Browser Use

• Open the relevant page in browser-use first
• If the user provides a URL, open that exact URL first
• Navigate the default source pages directly inside the browser
• Use take_snapshot first to inspect the live page structure before interacting
• Scrape visible page content after opening the page
• Use page state, snapshots, screenshots, and targeted follow-up navigation only to support discovery or fill gaps
• Do not rely on generic research summaries alone when the user wants a fresh trend read from the source pages
• If a source is dynamic or partially gated, capture what is directly visible and mark weak evidence clearly

Workflow

1. Open the requested URL first if the user provides one, otherwise open the default source pages in browser-use.
2. If X is part of the source set, use $x-trend-research first and load its collected posts as X input.
3. Scrape the relevant visible page content from the non-X sources in the browser.
4. Gather candidate items from the requested time window.
5. Deduplicate stories that describe the same event.
6. Rank by a mix of recency, breadth of discussion, practical importance, and likely downstream attention.
7. Return exactly 5 topics unless the user explicitly asks for a different count.
8. Save the result to a local JSON file so downstream steps can reuse the same artifact.

Output Contract

Return JSON with this shape:

• generated_at
• time_window_hours
• topic_count
• sources_checked
• notes
• topics

Each entry in topics must include:

• topic_id
• rank
• title
• category
• status
• summary
• why_it_matters
• time_window_hours
• timing_note
• signals
• source_links
• confidence

Ranking Heuristics

Use this order of importance:

1. Confirmed and recent
2. Repeated across multiple visible sources
3. Likely to matter to AI builders, operators, founders, or product teams
4. Specific enough to summarize in one paragraph
5. Not redundant with another selected topic

Evidence Rules

• Mark status as confirmed, rumor, or mixed.
• Do not imply precise timing if the visible source does not support it.
• If the evidence is thin, keep the item but explain the weakness in timing_note or notes.
• Do not promote pure engagement bait or opinion discourse unless it maps to a concrete development.

Quality Bar

• Avoid repeating near-identical stories
• Distinguish rumor from confirmed updates
• Keep summaries compact and concrete
• If evidence is thin, say so directly in the JSON

Local Storage

Write valid JSON only. Create the parent directory if needed.

Example

{
  "generated_at": "2026-04-01T09:30:00Z",
  "time_window_hours": 6,
  "topic_count": 5,
  "sources_checked": [
    "https://x.com/i/timeline",
    "https://news.ycombinator.com/"
  ],
  "notes": "Ranking favors recent, repeated, and practically important stories.",
  "topics": [
    {
      "topic_id": "T1",
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Example launch",
      "category": "product_launch",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "summary": "One-sentence description of the development.",
      "why_it_matters": "One-sentence practical implication.",
      "time_window_hours": 6,
      "timing_note": "Visible posts and source pages indicate activity within the requested window.",
      "signals": [
        "Repeated mentions from builders on X",
        "Official launch page linked in public posts"
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "https://x.com/example/status/1",
        "https://example.com/launch"
      ],
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ]
}