{"slug": "your-personal-ai-newspaper", "title": "your personal AI newspaper", "summary": "A developer has built Daily Digest Agent, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that researches news on user-selected topics each morning and delivers a structured briefing via email. The agent runs a multi-step loop—planning searches, fetching and extracting article content, spotting cross-topic patterns, and writing a clean digest—without any paid APIs or subscriptions. It also improves over time by updating a skill memory log, adjusting its own search strategy after each run to deliver progressively sharper results.", "body_md": "*This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge*\n\nWell we are always in a hurry in the morning catching up on that favourite mocha and toast in our hand. Realising the need to give time to the news at that time of the day sounds unrealistic for the professionals in rush and struggling to make time for themselves even. Recognising a typical physical newspaper to read and mug up the information to find insights would be time-consuming and AI news apps to the least demand subscription and display detailed summary.What do I bring among you all is **Daily Digest Agent** a self-hosted, fully autonomous AI agent that researches the news on your chosen topics every morning and delivers a structured briefing straight to your inbox.\n\nThis is not a usual news digest tool which has a fixed prompt and hardcoded URLs. Hermes Agent runs a real multi-step loop — it plans its own searches, decides which articles are worth reading, fetches and extracts full article content, spots cross-topic patterns, and writes a clean digest. Then it emails it to you. Every single day, automatically, for free.The agent also gets smarter over time. After each run, it updates a skill memory log — tracking which topics returned rich results and which ran dry. By run 5, it's already adjusting its own search strategy without any input from you.\n\nThe problem it solves is information overload. Rather clicking on multiple tabs your mail is the ultimate stoppage to get news highlights compiled by an agent that knows your interests and not which is optimizing based on the clicks.\n\n**How is mail displayed!**\n\n**Your personal AI newspaper, delivered every morning.**\n\nPowered by [Hermes Agent](https://nousresearch.com/hermes/) · Built on [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai) · Zero paid APIs\n\nEvery morning, this agent wakes up, researches the news on topics *you* care about, reads the actual articles, spots the patterns, and sends you a clean digest — straight to your inbox. No subscriptions. No paywalls. No noise.\n\nIt doesn't just call an LLM once. Hermes runs a real agentic loop — planning, searching, reading, reasoning — and gets smarter with every run.\n\n```\n=== Daily Digest Agent starting — Friday, May 29 2026 ===\nHermes iteration 1/20\n  Tool call: web_search → \"artificial intelligence news May 29 2026\" → 10 results\nHermes iteration 2/20\n  Tool call: web_fetch  → reading techcrunch.com/...\nHermes iteration 3/20\n  Tool call: web_search → \"Indian startup funding round May 2026\" → 10 results\n...\nDigest saved to output/digest_Friday_May_29_2026.md\nEmail sent to\n```\n\n…I repeat it's an engine not a wrapper, A multistep agentic loop inspired by Hermes agent core architecture.\n\n**Tool Calling**-Hermes receives two tools (web_search and web_fetch) and autonomously decides which queries to run, which articles are worth reading, and when it has gathered enough to write the digest. No hardcoded steps.\n\n**Self-termination** — The agent runs until it emits <<>> on its own. It decides when it's done.\n\n**GEPA-style skill memory** — After every run, a skill log is updated with what topics were searched and what patterns worked. On the next run, this context is fed back to the agent — so it gets progressively sharper at finding relevant stories. After 5+ runs you can see it adjusting its own search queries.\n\n**Scheduled autonomy** — Runs every morning via cron/Task Scheduler with zero human input. Fully autonomous end-to-end.\n\nWhat makes this different from a simple LLM call is that the agent plans, executes, reads, reasons, and self-improves — exactly the capabilities Hermes Agent helps with.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-personal-ai-newspaper", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/anushka_singh09/your-personal-ai-newspaper-3ibk", "published_at": "2026-05-29 16:24:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 16:42:45.167040+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Daily Digest Agent", "Hermes Agent"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-personal-ai-newspaper", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-personal-ai-newspaper.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-personal-ai-newspaper.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-personal-ai-newspaper.jsonld"}}