RSS News Digest Agent with Claude Code
Fifteen feeds in, one grouped message out, with themes taken from the stories themselves rather than a fixed taxonomy. Claude Code is comfortable reading many small items while holding the output structure, which is what grouping sixty overnight entries under three honest themes requires. It also keeps FEEDS THAT DID NOT ANSWER populated instead of letting it slide off the end.
Watch it work before it's live
Run a staged conversation — no account needed. The agent handles it for real while a simulated world answers its tool calls; nothing touches real accounts, and nothing is actually sent.
Morning tick, Tuesday 07:30
The 07:30 tick fires. Overnight the eight feeds returned 61 new items. Three cover the same EU battery subsidy decision, from Reuters, Sifted, and a trade blog. Two are funding rounds, a Nairobi logistics startup at 14 million dollars and a Rotterdam port software company at 3.2 million euros. The rest are product announcements, two conference agendas, and an obituary.
Set up in minutes
Using this template drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:
Connect RSS
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
Connect Slack
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
Feeds list
The feeds you want read every morning, one per line, as feed addresses or plain site addresses the agent can find the feed for. Give each a short label so the digest names sources the way your team already does.
Digest style
How the digest should read: how many stories you want, which themes matter to you, how long a line should be, whether you want plain summaries or your own angle, and what is never worth including.
Runs on Claude Code
Preselected for this page — connect your Claude Code account during setup, or switch to NoClick's built-in models with one click.
Watch it handle a test run
A staged conversation against a simulated world — then it’s live.
Why Claude Code for this agent
Themes from the stories
Three theme headings have to come out of what actually published overnight, not from a list decided in advance. That is reading and grouping rather than filtering.
Long output stays in shape
Sixty items compressed into a headline, a source, a link and one sentence each is where formatting usually degrades. Sustained structure holds up well here.
Before you fork
Does it read the articles or just the feed?
Only what the feed carries, and where an entry has a headline with no summary the template requires it to say so and link out rather than guess. That keeps the run cheap and the digest honest at once. If you want fuller summaries, the fix is subscribing to full-text feeds, not changing harness.
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Put RSS News Digest Agent to work on Claude Code
Free to start. Guided setup, a test run against staged conversations, and it's live.