RSS News Digest Agent with Codex
One run a morning against a fixed list of addresses is about as bounded as scheduled work gets. Codex moves quickly through parsing, checking nothing repeats yesterday's digest, and assembling a single message, which keeps a daily job at daily-job cost. Adding five more feeds changes the reading load and little else.
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 Codex
Preselected for this page — connect your Codex 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 Codex for this agent
Fast on many small items
Sixty entries is sixty short reads and one write. A high count of small items suits a quick harness better than a deliberative one.
Deduplication is mechanical
Never sending a story twice is a comparison against what already went out, which is bookkeeping this harness does not fumble.
Before you fork
What happens when a feed moves or dies?
It gets named in FEEDS THAT DID NOT ANSWER with the reason in plain words, which is the part homemade digests almost never do. Two Dead Feeds stages a 404 and a page returning HTML instead of XML, so you can confirm both are reported rather than skipped. A digest that shrinks silently is exactly what that section exists to prevent.
Run it with a different agent
Put RSS News Digest Agent to work on Codex
Free to start. Guided setup, a test run against staged conversations, and it's live.