Autopress

Autopress is a kit that, with the help of a coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex…), builds your own curated news outlet on the topic you choose. It gathers RSS feeds, drops duplicates, picks what matters, writes a recurring edition and publishes it as a static website. You set the editorial line; the agent handles the technical and repetitive work.

One important limitation: Autopress writes from RSS feed summaries. It paraphrases and cites its sources, but it does not read the full article or check every fact on its own. The automation generates the edition; editorial judgement remains yours. By default, nothing is indexed until you approve it.

Before you start, you need an application that can open folders and run tasks. You can use Cursor, the Claude Code app or ChatGPT in Codex mode. A regular browser chat cannot set up the kit for you.

1. Click “Download Autopress (.zip)”. It downloads autopress-v0.7.0.zip, the ready-to-use package for the latest version. Do not use GitHub's green “Code” button: that downloads the source code, not the kit prepared for setup.
2. Unzip the file and open the resulting folder with Cursor, Claude Code or Codex.
3. Paste this prompt and follow along:

Here's the Autopress kit (these files). Help me set up my own AI-powered news outlet. I'm NON-technical. Read AGENTS.md and follow it: walk me through it step by step, running the commands yourself and waiting for my answers. Don't publish anything without my go-ahead.

The assistant will ask about the name, topic, language, sources and style. It will then show you a preview before publishing anything. You add the API key later, in a private file, never in the chat.

Cents in API per edition

Writing uses one model call per issue. The repository and hosting can be free. Review time is the main cost: you will need to read each edition, correct it and manage source rights. The account and API key are yours.

1. RSS sources
2. Curate & dedupe
3. Select
4. Write (AI, 1 call)
5. You review
6. Publish (static site)

The code gathers, sorts, deduplicates and selects. The AI receives only the chosen stories and writes the edition in one call. Adding more sources barely changes the API cost.

Autopress includes six styles and five palettes you can combine. Try all 30 combinations here and choose how you want your outlet to look.

The Fleet Radar is Pulpo's weekly publication for fleet operators. It shows what Autopress looks like as a real outlet: recurring editions, an archive, topics and sources on its own website.

This is a live Autopress implementation, not an included template. Pulpo is responsible for its content and editorial review. The publication is currently in Spanish.

Current version: v0.7.0 (beta). Updates do not happen on their own: when a new version is available, tell the assistant “update Autopress”. It makes a backup before changing anything, then updates only the engine. It leaves your configuration, sources, website and editions unchanged.

What v0.7 improves: it checks the AI connection and feeds more thoroughly, warns you when the selected model has been retired, protects the newsletter against bots, and improves publishing with methodology, sources and author pages, richer metadata, and navigation between editions. It does not break v0.6 configurations. You can find every detail in the release notes or the CHANGELOG.

Code under MIT, docs under CC BY 4.0. Built on the Anthropic SDK; you need your own API key (factual; no affiliation with or endorsement by Anthropic).