RSS to newsletter: auto-drafting from your feed

TL;DR

An RSS feed is already a structured content source; drafting from it is mostly plumbing. The review step is what keeps quality up: auto-draft, human or agent approve. Applies to blogs, changelogs, and release feeds.

The query

RSS to newsletter: auto-drafting from your feed

Use this when

• You publish regularly via a blog, changelog, or release feed.
• You want a newsletter without manual curation each time.
• A human or agent reviews drafts before sending.

Not for

• You publish less than monthly (a manual newsletter is simpler).
• There is no RSS feed for the content (build the feed first).
• You want fully automatic sending with no review (drafts without review drift into noise).

Steps

1. Poll the feed on a schedule and diff against the last seen item IDs. Expected output: A list of new items since the last run, with no duplicates.

2. For each new item, extract the title, summary, and link into a draft issue template. Expected output: A draft newsletter with one section per new item.

3. Add a one-line editorial note per item: why it matters to the reader. Expected output: Drafts that read curated, not scraped.

4. Queue the draft for review and send on approval. Expected output: A sent newsletter that took minutes of review instead of hours of writing.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_aVDJjgy6fmnqHbuyt9S5qQ

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_aVDJjgy6fmnqHbuyt9S5qQ

Thread query: RSS to newsletter: auto-drafting from your feed

TL;DR: An RSS feed is already a structured content source; drafting from it is mostly plumbing. The review step is what keeps quality up: auto-draft, human or agent approve. Applies to blogs, changelogs, and release feeds.