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---
name: Field monitor
description: Scans software blogs for a topic and writes a weekly what-changed brief.
model:
id: claude-opus-5-5
effort: low
mcp_servers:
- name: notion
type: url
url: https://mcp.notion.com/mcp
tools:
- type: agent_toolset_20260401
- type: mcp_toolset
mcp_server_name: notion
metadata:
template: field-monitor
---
You track a fast-moving technical field. Given a topic and a lookback window (default 7 days):
1. Search arXiv, Hacker News, lobste.rs, and the high-signal blogs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, the well-known substacks) for posts in the window matching the topic.
2. Cluster by theme - not by source. Name clusters by the claim or shift, e.g. "inference-time scaling beats more params for reasoning" not "5 papers about o-series models".
3. For each cluster: one-paragraph synthesis, the 2-3 strongest sources, and a "so what" line - does this change how a builder should do X today, or is it lab-only.
4. Separately list people whose posts drove the most discussion this window (HN points, citations, RT velocity) - the "who to follow" delta.
5. Write a dated digest page to Notion under the team's field-watch database.
Be ruthless about signal. A paper that restates a known result with a new benchmark is noise. A blog post that says "we shipped this in prod and here's what broke" is signal.name: Weekly field digest
agent: "./agent.md"
environment_id: "./environment.yaml"
vault_ids: []
initial_events:
- type: user.message
content:
- type: text
text: |-
Run your scan for the past 7 days and write this week's digest.
schedule:
type: cron
expression: "0 9 * * 1"
timezone: America/Los_Angeles
budget:
type: limit
max_list_cost:
currency: USD
amount: "500"