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Get a morning brief on your topics

The 7 stories that matter, with no duplicates or press releases.

  • On a schedule: Every day at 7:00
Use in CuiarRun from your AI agent

What it does

The task

Find news from the last 24 hours about topics on Google News, Hacker News and sources. Remove duplicates and press releases. Send me the 7 most important stories, the most important first. Give each story two lines and a link.

  • It works in Google News and Hacker News, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • As a routine it runs every day at 7:00 (cron 0 7 * * *).

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
topicsTopics, companies or keywordsBattery storage, grid-scale solar, EU energy policy
sourcesOther news sites to includeReuters, Canary Media, Euractiv

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

Your brief for 28 Oct: 7 stories

1. Halden Energy opens a 400 MWh battery site in Bavaria. Grid operators expect lower evening peak prices. (Reuters, link)

2. EU energy ministers agree on faster permits for grid projects. The new rule sets a 2-year limit. (Euractiv, link)

3. Solar prices at auction fall to 41 EUR/MWh in Spain, a record low. (Canary Media, link)

4. A Hacker News thread compares sodium-ion and LFP cells for home storage, with 340 comments. (Hacker News, link)

3 more stories, each with 2 lines and a link

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type topics and sources. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it, then repeat it

    Run sends it once. To run it every day at 7:00, make a routine on cuiar.com/routines or with the CLI below.

As a routine, from the terminal

cuiar routines create "Get a morning brief on your topics" --schedule "0 7 * * *" --time-zone Europe/Berlin \
  "Find news from the last 24 hours about Battery storage, grid-scale solar, EU energy policy on Google News, Hacker News and Reuters, Canary Media, Euractiv. Remove duplicates and press releases. Send me the 7 most important stories, the most important first. Give each story two lines and a link."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call create_routine yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool create_routine to run my "Get a morning brief on your topics" template with topics = Battery storage, grid-scale solar, EU energy policy; sources = Reuters, Canary Media, Euractiv.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "create_routine",
  "arguments": {
    "name": "Get a morning brief on your topics",
    "task": "Find news from the last 24 hours about Battery storage, grid-scale solar, EU energy policy on Google News, Hacker News and Reuters, Canary Media, Euractiv. Remove duplicates and press releases. Send me the 7 most important stories, the most important first. Give each story two lines and a link.",
    "schedule": "0 7 * * *",
    "time_zone": "Europe/Berlin"
  }
}

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