How to Build a Daily News Digest with Claude Code

Claude Code isn’t typically thought of as a news tool, but with AgentPatch connected it can generate a structured daily news digest on any topics you care about. Useful for starting a work session with current context, or for doing a quick briefing before a call.

Why This Matters

Before diving into a coding session, having current context on your project’s space is valuable. What’s shipping from competitors, what are developers talking about, any relevant announcements overnight? A quick digest at the start of a session sets useful context without taking much time.

With the Google News tool available through AgentPatch, Claude Code can pull that digest on request. It’s not a scheduled task — it’s something you ask for when you want it, and it gives you live results rather than training data.

Setup

The AgentPatch CLI is designed for AI agents to use via shell access. Install it, and your agent can discover and invoke any tool on the marketplace.

Install (zero dependencies, Python 3.10+):

pip install agentpatch

Set your API key:

export AGENTPATCH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Example commands your agent will use:

ap search "web search"
ap run google-search --input '{"query": "test"}'

Get your API key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Install the AgentPatch skill — it teaches Claude Code when to use AgentPatch and how to use the CLI:

/plugin marketplace add fullthom/agentpatch-claude-skill
/plugin install agentpatch@agentpatch

MCP Server (Alternative)

If you prefer raw MCP tool access instead of the skill:

claude mcp add -s user --transport http agentpatch https://agentpatch.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Example

You open a Claude Code session to start your work day. Before jumping into code, you ask:

“Give me a morning digest. Pull the latest news on: ‘AI coding tools’, ‘Rust programming language’, ‘WebAssembly’, and ‘developer productivity’. Top 3 stories per topic, 1-2 sentence summary each.”

Claude Code calls Google News for each topic and returns a formatted digest — four sections, current articles, brief summaries. You read through it in a couple of minutes.

You spot something interesting and follow up:

“There was a mention of a new Rust async runtime. Pull more recent articles specifically on that.”

Claude Code runs a targeted Google News query and surfaces the most relevant coverage. You get more depth on the story that caught your eye, without leaving the session.

This works as a start-of-day ritual or whenever you need a quick pulse check on a topic before a meeting or a coding session.

Wrapping Up

Connecting AgentPatch gives Claude Code access to Google News and every other tool on the marketplace through a single MCP config entry. The same connection covers web search, trends, email, and more. Get started at agentpatch.ai.

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