Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux

Eugene Yan · 1 year ago

An engineer built news-agents, a system using Amazon Q CLI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to automatically generate daily news recaps by distributing feeds across multiple AI agents running in parallel. The system processes 6 news feeds (Hacker News, WSJ Tech, WSJ Markets, TechCrunch, AI News, Wired) across 3 sub-agents that each generate summaries, with a main agent combining results into a final report. The May 4, 2025 summary identified 124 total items across 42 categories, with AI/Machine Learning representing 25% of coverage, demonstrating how multi-agent architectures can coordinate to process information at scale.