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News Intelligence Agent
A six-stage Claude pipeline that turns a plain question into a cited brief. Pay per event.
- Status
- Running
- Since
- Public on the Apify Store
- Built with
- Node.js · Claude · Apify
01 The ask
A plain question in. A brief with its sources out.
02 The machine
A Node.js Actor on Apify running a six-stage Claude pipeline across news, RSS, Reddit and X. Metered by the Store, pay per event. Anyone can run it.
03 How it runs
- How News Intelligence Agent runs, step by step:
- Question to Plan
- Plan to Discover
- Discover to Extract
- Extract to Analyse
- Analyse to Synthesise
- Synthesise to Brief
- Extract to Source health (a guard)
- Synthesise to Fallback (a guard)
- Fallback to Brief (a guard)
04 Under the hood
- Six stages: plan, discover, extract, analyse, synthesise, deliver.
- Every record lists the health of each source. allSourcesAnswered is the one flag to alert on.
- One honest retry per call on a transient failure, none on a permission error.
- If the final report fails twice, it still delivers a degraded brief and says why.
- Runs with limited permissions and peaks under 100 MB. Version 0.4.18.
{ "sourceHealth": "google-news ok (8) · rss ok (81) · reddit off · website-content-crawler (http) ok 36/39", "allSourcesAnswered": true, "warnings": [], "degraded": false}Fields every brief carries, from the Actor's public README on the Apify Store.
05 What changed
- A cited brief for a question, priced per event.
- The one machine here anyone can run.
06 What I can show
Fully public. Run it on the Store.
Run it on the Apify Store