{"slug": "wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map", "title": "Wanderer: An AI That Roams the Library of Congress Map", "summary": "A developer released Wanderer, an open-source AI agent that wakes every four hours via GitHub Actions, selects a subject from the Library of Congress classification (prioritizing obscure areas), pulls a related Wikipedia article, reads it, and writes a Markdown field note in a voice blending Carlin, Douglas Adams, and Tim Urban. Notes are stored in a notes/ directory and tracked in journal.json, with the project MIT-licensed and configurable via a GROQ_API_KEY secret and an optional PAUSED file to halt the workflow.", "body_md": "I’m proud to drop a new open‑source project: **Wanderer**. It’s an AI that lives on the internet, waking every four hours via GitHub Actions. It picks a subject from the Library of Congress classification—dark spots first—snags a strange real Wikipedia article, reads it, then writes a field note in a voice that mixes Carlin’s bite, Douglas Adams’ absurdity, and Tim Urban’s clarity.\n\n`wander.py``.github/workflows/wander.yml`) is the heartbeat.` notes/` as Markdown, tracked in `journal.json`.\nFork the repo, add `GROQ_API_KEY` (and optionally the others) as secrets, enable GitHub Pages on the `/docs` folder, and let it loose. The repo even includes an easy **off switch**: drop a file named `PAUSED` or disable the workflow.\n\nThe project is MIT‑licensed, so feel free to hack, remix, or just watch it grow.\n\nFind more about me and my other AI experiments on my homepage: [https://2db2du-byte.github.io](https://2db2du-byte.github.io)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/rabbidraccoon/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map-28p", "published_at": "2026-11-03 19:39:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-03 19:53:23.419308+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "generative-ai", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Wanderer", "GitHub Actions", "Library of Congress", "Wikipedia", "Groq", "GitHub Pages"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/wanderer-an-ai-that-roams-the-library-of-congress-map.jsonld"}}