nodecode-daily-edition

Daily Edition: a dated front page compiled from interest phrases, with one story once, cross-posted stories merged and earlier days' stories withheld. A Nodecode rewrite of ousiaresearch/daily-edition by ousiaresearch.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the daily edition cell", or run nodecode add nc://daily-edition.

Set it up

The daily-edition section names what you want to read about — a phrase per interest, never a feed address:

{
  "daily-edition": {
    "interests": ["fusion energy", "housing in Malaga", "the port authority"],
    "max_stories": 20,        // how many stories one edition prints, 1 to 40
    "muted": ["sports"],     // interest phrases left out of the edition
    "watchwords": ["ferry"], // words that star a story and keep it at the top
    "timeout_seconds": 12,   // one interest's fetch ceiling
    "provider": "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
    "max_chars": 12000       // the longest answer one action gives
  }
}

interests is the one required member. provider is the query feed an interest is expanded into: {query} is replaced by the phrase, and the default is Google News RSS, which is public and keyless. Naming an interest sends that phrase to the provider when an edition is compiled; nothing else leaves the machine, and no key is needed.

Use it

Ask for the paper, call the tool, or type /daily-edition:

daily_edition {action: "print"}
daily_edition {action: "print", interests: ["tidal power"], max_stories: 8}
daily_edition {action: "diff"}
daily_edition {action: "sources"}
/daily-edition
/daily-edition archive

Action	What it answers
`print`	today's front page as text: masthead, standfirst, lead, a section per interest, and what could not be read; the edition is filed as a back issue
`diff`	what changed since the last edition: new, still running, gone
`sources`	the interests, the provider, the mutes and watchwords, and how many back issues are kept
`archive`	the seven back issues, newest first

What makes it an edition rather than a feed:

One story, once. The same story from several mastheads is clustered by canonical link and then by headline evidence, so it prints as one line crediting every publisher.
A lead. Consensus wins the top of the page: more mastheads outrank fewer, recency breaks the tie, and a watchword stars a story to the top.
No reprints. Anything the newest edition from an earlier day printed is withheld. Printing twice on one day replaces that day's page.
Back issues. The last seven editions are kept under the Nodecode home, so diff and archive have something to compare against.

No model is involved: the edition is composed deterministically, from the same rules the plugin's page used.

Tests

.github/test-cell.sh tools/nodecode-daily-edition