rss-digest-curationlisted

For an agent that periodically pulls from RSS/news/blog sources and reports back, curation quality matters more than coverage — a digest that includes everything is equivalent to no digest at all: 1. **Filter by relevance to the stated topic before anything else.** Define what this digest is actually for (a narrow topic, not "anything new") and drop items that only loosely match, even if the source itself is generally on-topic. 2. **Deduplicate across sources.** Multiple outlets often cover the same story — collapse them into one item citing the best source, rather than listing near-identical headlines three times. 3. **Prioritize substance over volume.** A source that posts 20 times a day shouldn't dominate the digest just by publishing more — weigh items by how much they matter to the stated topic, not by how many a source happened to produce this period. 4. **Summarize, don't just re-title.** A digest item should say what's actually new or notable in a sentence, not just restate the headline — the reader is deciding whether to click through, and a headline alone often doesn't tell them that. 5. **Track what's already been reported** so a recurring digest doesn't re-surface the same story across multiple runs just because the source updated the article or it's still trending. 6. **Keep a fixed cadence and length.** A digest that's sometimes 3 items and sometimes 40 is harder to build a habit of reading than one that's reliably a