Let an agent read the feed for you
A personal agent can replace an open-ended trawl through social media with one timely story chosen from a connected view of the news.
Developed from a conversation between Andy David and Pete Winn
Pete’s personal agent Rick scans his Twitter feed and bookmarks roughly once an hour, then checks other news sources it has discovered and recorded for later use. It also draws on Matt O’Dell’s Citadel Wire, a Nostr-based service that gathers updates from sources including Polymarket and world news.
Rick consolidates that material in a knowledge graph, where it can connect new developments with stories it has already tracked. After each scan, it chooses the most interesting story, checks that it has not already delivered the same item, and posts a short briefing to Pete’s Book of Sand channel in Flight Deck. The result has a clear boundary and destination, unlike a feed that invites indefinite scrolling.
The experiment had been running for about six or seven weeks when Pete described it. He found the hourly posts easy to absorb as they arrived, while still being able to clear several together at the end of a busy day. Some updates could be skipped if he had already seen the news elsewhere, but the recurring scan meant Rick was, to an extent, reading social media on his behalf.