Automate a weekly RSS newsletter draft

One person uses OpenClaw to gather feed items, rank them, draft intros, and wait for approval before sending the newsletter.

Done with OpenClaw· Intermediate

What they did
They connected five markdown skills with cron jobs and a heartbeat check. Every six hours, the agent collects roughly 120 RSS sources, plus Reddit and Hacker News, into one inbox. On Wednesday night it rates the items by relevance, freshness, source credibility, engagement, and repeat penalties. On Thursday it writes short openings in the editor’s style and sends a Telegram preview for review.
How it went
The workflow is claimed to save about 18 minutes per issue, compared with around four hours by hand. The first few sends should go out as drafts in Buttondown so formatting can be checked, and the intro text can still miss subtle context.
Tips
Keep a person in the loop for final review, especially on the opening copy. Use drafts at first, and don’t let the agent send anything until you reply with approval.

Try it yourself with OpenClaw

You are my newsletter assistant. Watch these RSS feeds: [feed URLs], plus [optional Reddit/Hacker News sources]. Every [time interval], collect new items into an inbox. Once a week, rank them for [topic/audience] using relevance, freshness, source trust, engagement, and duplicate penalties. Draft a newsletter with a brief intro in the style of [editor voice] and [one line / short blurb] for each selected item. Send me a preview in [Telegram or other channel]. Pause and wait for my reply of "approve" before you send, publish, or submit anything to [newsletter tool/list]. If I ask for changes, revise and resend the preview first.

Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.

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