Building an AI agent that finds repos and content relevant to my work

Reddit r/artificial / 4/2/2026

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Key Points

  • A Reddit user proposes building a free AI agent that scans sources like Hugging Face, arXiv, and Substack to find items relevant to a user’s specific work.
  • The agent’s output is structured as a weekly summary, aiming to reduce the chance of missing interesting updates across multiple platforms.
  • The post is framed as a question inviting feedback on the concept and its viability.
  • The key value proposition is personalized information filtering and aggregation into a recurring digest.

I kept missing interesting stuff on HuggingFace, arXiv, Substack etc., so I made an agent that sends a weekly summary of only what’s relevant, for free

Any thoughts on the idea?

submitted by /u/d_arthez
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