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Agent News Bot

Agent News Bot (agent-news-bot) is a Shadowfetch Studio project. A newsroom that runs on the machine, not on a product page. It pulls desks (RSS, AI, Hacker News, Polymarket, markets, weather) over localhost HTTP and keeps a freshness ledger so a story is only served once inside the lookback window.

Separate download · not included in Shadowfetch Linux

Facts.

License
MIT
Platforms
Linux service · macOS 14+ app
Network
127.0.0.1 only
Accounts
None. Key-free public sources.
Source
Open on GitHub
Status
Stable
Language
Swift

What it does.

  • Listens on loopback only.
  • Does not publish to social networks by itself.
  • Source is MIT-licensed on GitHub.
  • Two runtimes share one HTTP contract: a native macOS app and a headless Linux daemon.
  • Fourteen topic desks from public RSS and open JSON APIs — no source API keys.

What it is not.

  • This is not Shadowfetch Linux, and it is not an App Store app.
  • It is a private desk for people who already operate agents on their own hardware.

Install.

Linux (from source)

Python 3.10+, then the published package commands:

cd linux
pip install feedparser requests
python3 -m agent_newsbot serve

A systemd installer lives at linux/install.sh in the repository. The bridge binds to 127.0.0.1 (default port 18765) and authenticates with a locally generated bearer token.

macOS (from source)

macOS 14+ with the Swift toolchain. The repository build script compiles a native app:

./build.sh
open "/Applications/Agent News Bot.app"

The bridge token is shown under Settings → Bridge after first launch.

Source.

github.com/ShadowfetchStudio/agent-news-bot · MIT