Research

Get a morning AI news brief that stays quiet on slow days

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs (estimated)
  • Evidence Anecdotal
  • CostNot stated in source
  • No-codeNo
n8nSource-linkedNeeds verification

What they did

Every weekday at 8am an n8n workflow searches the day's AI news, scores each article for materiality at about $0.00004 apiece, and posts one cited brief per topic to Slack. Topics with no real news get no post; a morning costs 1-4 cents.

How it went

Guest post by a You.com engineer on the n8n blog; specific cost figures

Worth knowing

  • Guest post by a You.com engineer on the n8n blog; specific cost figures.
  • FLAG: vendor guest post; workflow pattern is general.

Prompt

Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.

Every weekday at 8am, search today's news for [topics]. Score each article: is it new, is it material, is it about my topic. Drop reprints. For topics with something real, post one short brief with source links to [Slack channel]. If a topic has nothing material, post nothing for it.

Recommended

Try it in Grok Bot

  1. Copy the prompt (button below).
  2. Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
  3. Connect the listed tools (Slack) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
  4. If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."

Alternatives: the same prompt works in n8n, Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.

Set it up

Tools: Slack · Stack: n8n + You.com + Jev

  1. Read the original source for full context.
  2. Connect the tools your agent needs.
  3. Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
  4. Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.

Generic suggested steps, not from the source.

Evidence

Guest post by a You.com engineer on the n8n blog; specific cost figures

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