RSS News Digest Agent with Hermes

The digest fails when it flattens: eight feeds carrying one wire story become eight lines, and the item naming your largest customer sits fourth from the bottom. Sorting that out means understanding what the stories are about, not matching words in headlines. Hermes contributes general reasoning to the grouping while every headline and date stays copied from the feed.
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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

Morning scheduleevery day at 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.

What you'll need

Set up in minutes

Using this template drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:

  1. Connect RSS

    One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.

  2. Connect Slack

    One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Runs on Hermes

    Preselected for this page — connect your Hermes account during setup, or switch to NoClick's built-in models with one click.

  6. Watch it handle a test run

    A staged conversation against a simulated world — then it’s live.

A considered pairing

Why Hermes for this agent

Grouping needs comprehension

Recognising that Reuters, Sifted and a trade blog are covering one subsidy decision is a judgement about content rather than a string comparison.

Priority line is reasoning

Putting a story about your own customer at the top requires noticing it is about them, sometimes from a headline that never says so.

Good to know

Before you fork

Does the model decide what counts as important?

It decides within the boundaries of your digest style variable, which is where you name the themes that matter and what is never worth including. The one rule it cannot override is promoting stories that name you, a customer or a partner. Read the Busy News Morning output first and see whether its three themes match the ones you would have picked.

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