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.
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 Hermes
Preselected for this page — connect your Hermes 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 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.
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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Put RSS News Digest Agent to work on Hermes
Free to start. Guided setup, a test run against staged conversations, and it's live.