Tools and templates for producing the weekly Kilo Code newsletter.

# Run the full pipeline
./scripts/run-pipeline.sh

# Or run steps individually:
./scripts/gather-github.sh    # Pull PRs and contributors
./scripts/gather-blog.sh      # Pull blog posts from RSS
./scripts/gather-events.sh    # Generate event data
./scripts/transform.sh        # Transform to newsletter format
./scripts/draft.sh            # Generate HTML draft with LLM

kilo-newsletter/
├── AGENTS.md           # Detailed documentation for automation
├── archives/           # Past newsletters (raw HTML)
├── data/               # Generated data (gitignored)
├── drafts/             # Generated drafts
├── prompts/
│   └── system.md       # LLM system prompt
└── scripts/
    ├── gather-github.sh
    ├── gather-blog.sh
    ├── gather-events.sh
    ├── transform.sh
    ├── draft.sh
    ├── run-pipeline.sh
    └── sync-archives.sh

• Draft generation: Thursday 6am ET (cron)
• Human review: Thursday morning
• Newsletter sent: Thursday (via Customer.io)

1. Data Gathering (scripts) — Pull from GitHub, blog RSS, events
2. Data Transform (scripts) — Structure and deduplicate
3. Draft Generation (LLM) — Generate HTML newsletter
4. Human Review — Brendan reviews and publishes

See AGENTS.md for detailed documentation on:

• Newsletter structure and sections
• Content sources
• Employee filtering
• Manual input requirements
• HTML styling guidelines

To pull new newsletters from news.kilocode.ai:

./scripts/sync-archives.sh

• gh CLI (authenticated with Kilo-Org access)
• python3 with standard library
• jq
• curl
• openclaw CLI or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for draft generation