news briefing

**A daily AI, US, and world news briefing written by an LLM, where code, not the prompt, owns every link that can get printed.**

[](https://github.com/elanthus/news-briefing/actions/workflows/ci.yml)  ·  Live site →

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Every morning a GitHub Actions job pulls 150–250 items from RSS, Hacker News, and Reddit, hands them to a model to pick and summarize, and publishes the result. One property makes it unusual: **the model never receives a URL and never opens a page.** Code owns the time window, which items are eligible, where every link points, and whether the run publishes at all.

You can read today's briefing, generate your own in one command, or point the whole thing at your own feeds by editing two JSON files.

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The [live site](https://elanthus.github.io/news-briefing/) publishes daily, and each date links to that run's integrity report. A committed copy is in [`docs/sample-briefing.md`](docs/sample-briefing.md).

Reader view	Auditor view
The status chip links to that day's integrity report. A clean run means every deterministic contract check passed. Links resolve to selected corpus items, sections routed correctly, source health declared. It does not mean the summary is faithful to the linked article. Nothing here checks that.	Zero findings at the publication gate. The report exposes the audit manifest, states that semantic faithfulness was no