signal-scout-agent

Inspiration

The open web produces thousands of developer signals every hour GitHub repos trending, Hacker News stories breaking, npm packages surging. But no one has time to read all of it. We asked: what if an AI agent could do that work autonomously? Not just summarize, but actually act fetch live data, remember what it's already seen, write a cited intelligence report, and publish it to a monetized newsletter all without a human touching it. Signal Scout is that agent.

What it does

Signal Scout is a fully autonomous web intelligence agent that runs end-to-end without human intervention:

Monitors GitHub Trending and Hacker News in real time using live API calls Deduplicates every signal through a Redis seen-URL set so it never processes the same story twice Queues new signals in a Redis pub/sub pipeline for reliable agent orchestration Synthesizes a ranked intelligence briefing using Claude — clustering signals into themes, scoring by developer impact, and citing every source Writes cited.md — a fully sourced Markdown report committed to the repo as an auditable artifact Publishes the report autonomously to Ghost behind a paid membership paywall Monetizes via Ghost subscriptions and x402 micropayment rails so the agent earns revenue on its own output

Built on three sponsor tools — WunderGraph for data federation, Redis for agent memory and orchestration, and Ghost for autonomous publishing — and shipped as an installable skill on Shipables.dev so any developer can add it to their own agent in one command.

How we built it

📡 Fetched real live signals from GitHub Trending + Hacker News 🔁 Deduplicated 20 URLs via Redis 🤖 Claude clustered them into 5 themes with impact ratings 📄 Wrote a cited intelligence report with 19 real sources 💾 Saved to cited.md with timestamp and agent attribution

Challenges we ran into

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Accomplishments that we're proud of

speed

What we learned

complexity comes with requirements ambuiguity and real industry set up

What's next for signal-scout-agent

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Built With

• claude
• redis
• tigerdata
• wundergraph