Starting Simple
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Starting Simple
If this feels like too much to set up at once, start with one thing: the newsletter-writer agent with a basic VOICE.md.
Write a brief by hand — just your notes on the topic, the key points, the sources you found yourself. Give that to the agent. See how close the draft is to what you’d have written. Edit it. Send it.
Do that three or four times before adding more automation. You’ll develop a sense of where the agent is reliable and where it needs the most guidance, and that understanding will make every subsequent step easier to configure correctly.
The goal was never to remove you from the process. It was to remove the production overhead that makes publishing feel like a burden rather than a craft. When the automation is working well, you spend your time on the decisions that matter — what to say, how to say it, what to cut — and almost no time on the machinery around those decisions.
That’s the pipeline. Now go build yours.