The New Intelligencer

A daily newspaper generated from your Bluesky timeline.

The New Intelligencer transforms your Bluesky feed into a curated newspaper-style digest. It fetches posts from your timeline, groups related posts into stories, writes headlines, and compiles everything into a browsable HTML page.

Quick Start

./run.sh

This runs the full workflow and generates digest.html in today's workspace folder.

Setup

Prerequisites

• Go 1.24+
• Claude Code
• Bluesky account with an app password

Bluesky Credentials

1. In Bluesky, go to Settings > Privacy and Security > App Passwords
2. Create a new app password
3. Store your credentials in macOS Keychain:

security add-generic-password -s "bsky-agent" -a "handle" -w "your.handle.bsky.social"
security add-generic-password -s "bsky-agent" -a "password" -w "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

Build

make build

How It Works

The digest is created through a six-stage pipeline:

FETCH → CATEGORIZE → CONSOLIDATE → FRONT PAGE → HEADLINES → COMPILE

Four Claude Code agents handle the editorial work:

Agent	Role
bsky-section-categorizer	Assigns posts to newspaper sections
bsky-consolidator	Groups posts about the same story together
bsky-front-page-selector	Picks the top stories for the front page
bsky-headline-editor	Writes headlines and sets story priorities

CLI Commands

./bin/digest init      # Initialize today's workspace
./bin/digest fetch     # Fetch posts from your timeline
./bin/digest status    # Check workflow progress
./bin/digest compile   # Generate the final digest

Development

make build   # Build the binary
make test    # Run tests
make clean   # Clean build artifacts