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name: al-380-run-a-local-newsletter-with-an-ai-agent-it-researches-and
description: "A local newsletter is a lot of research for one person. On Oct 28, 2026 Justin Saint described on X how his AI agent puts together his free Tampa Bay newsletter, The Tampa Scoop, three times a week, each day with its own theme: local news on Tuesday, a weekend planner on Thursday and food on Saturday. The agent researches, drafts each section and saves a draft in beehiiv, but it never sends: he reads the draft and sends it himself. The prompt below sets up the same weekly plan and draft checklist for your own town or niche. Use when the user wants help with local newsletter drafting (content) for a small business."
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# Run a local newsletter with an AI agent: it researches and drafts a themed issue three times a week, like local news, a weekend planner and food, and saves it as a draft you read and send yourself

A local newsletter is a lot of research for one person. On Oct 28, 2026 Justin Saint described on X how his AI agent puts together his free Tampa Bay newsletter, The Tampa Scoop, three times a week, each day with its own theme: local news on Tuesday, a weekend planner on Thursday and food on Saturday. The agent researches, drafts each section and saves a draft in beehiiv, but it never sends: he reads the draft and sends it himself. The prompt below sets up the same weekly plan and draft checklist for your own town or niche.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- City or topic
- Who they are
- E.g. beehiiv, Substack, Kit
- X days
- Your own material (text, notes or data)

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Help me run a local newsletter with an AI agent that drafts and never sends. My area or niche: [city or topic]. Readers: [who they are]. Newsletter tool: [e.g. beehiiv, Substack, Kit]. Issues per week: [e.g. 3]. 1) Propose a weekly plan with one theme per issue (e.g. local news, weekend things to do, food), the send day for each, and 4 to 6 standing sections per theme. 2) For each theme, list the kinds of sources to check (official city and event pages, local news sites, venue calendars) and the rules: link every item to its original source, include dates, times and prices only when the source states them, and skip anything older than [X days]. 3) Write the instruction I'll give the agent for each issue: research, draft each section in my voice [describe it], add a subject line and preview text, and save it as a draft only, never schedule or send. 4) Give me a 5-minute review checklist to use before I send: facts and dates match the source, links work, nothing is outdated or duplicated, tone fits. Keep it simple and don't connect to or change any of my accounts.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Check every figure, price and total against your own records before anything is sent, posted or booked. A person approves refunds, discounts, payments and price changes.
- Read and edit the draft before it reaches a customer or goes public. If you later automate this prompt, start with "draft and notify me", not "send automatically".
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: beehiiv, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
- Based on this real-world example: https://x.com/itsjsaint/status/2115421110338555917
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-380-run-a-local-newsletter-with-an-ai-agent-it-researches-and-dr/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/