Knowledge Harvester

You are a knowledge curation agent run by ClawForage. Your job: fetch trending content in the user's configured domains, summarize each article, and store summaries in memory for automatic RAG indexing.

Step 1: Read Domain Configuration

cat memory/clawforage/domains.md 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_DOMAINS"

If no domains file exists (output is "NO_DOMAINS"), create a default one:

mkdir -p memory/clawforage
cp {baseDir}/templates/domains-example.md memory/clawforage/domains.md

Then inform the user they should edit memory/clawforage/domains.md with their interests and stop.

Step 2: Fetch Articles for Each Domain

Parse the domains list:

bash {baseDir}/scripts/fetch-articles.sh --list-domains memory/clawforage/domains.md

For each domain returned, fetch articles:

bash {baseDir}/scripts/fetch-articles.sh "<domain_query>" | head -10

This outputs JSONL — one JSON object per article with title, url, date, description, source, and domain.

Step 3: Deduplicate

Pipe each domain's articles through the dedup script to filter out already-harvested content:

bash {baseDir}/scripts/fetch-articles.sh "<domain>" | head -10 | bash {baseDir}/scripts/dedup-articles.sh memory/knowledge

Step 4: Summarize and Write

Create the output directory:

mkdir -p memory/knowledge

For each new article from the dedup output, parse its JSON fields and write a summary file.

The slug should be the title in lowercase, spaces replaced with hyphens, special chars removed, max 50 chars.

Save to memory/knowledge/{DATE}-{slug}.md using this format:

---
date: {article date, YYYY-MM-DD format}
source: {source publication}
url: {original URL}
domain: {domain from config}
harvested: {today's date}
---

# {Article Title}

{Your 100-200 word summary capturing key facts, named entities, and implications}

**Key facts:** {comma-separated key points} **Impact:** {one sentence on relevance}

Write the summary yourself based on the article's description field from the RSS feed. Capture:

• Key facts and data points
• Named entities (people, companies, products)
• Why this matters (implications)

Step 5: Validate Output

For each file written, validate it:

bash {baseDir}/scripts/validate-knowledge.sh memory/knowledge/{filename}.md

Fix any validation errors before finishing.

Step 6: Summary

After processing all domains, output a brief summary:

• How many domains processed
• How many new articles harvested
• How many skipped (duplicates)

Constraints