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# The Architect's Digest Skill

This skill produces a daily curated digest for software architects. The output is a long-form briefing: substantive, deeply annotated entries across 9 sections, written for senior engineers who want context and architectural implications — not headlines.

## Tools to Use

- `tavily_search`: Primary research tool. Use `search_depth: 'advanced'` and `topic: 'news'` when freshness matters. Always include `time_range: 'week'`.
- `obscura_web_scrape`: Fetch full article text when a search snippet is too thin to annotate meaningfully. Use for InfoQ, engineering blogs, GitHub Trending, and book review sources.

## Output

Save the digest to:

```
__.DailyDigest/YYYY-MM-DD-architects-digest.md
```

Create the `__.DailyDigest/` directory if it does not exist.

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## Workflow

### Step 1 — Gather raw signals (run all searches in parallel)

Collect at minimum **5 candidates per section** before writing anything. Run all searches simultaneously — do not wait for one batch to complete before starting the next.

#### Architecture & Distributed Systems
```
tavily_search("distributed systems architecture infoq 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("infoq.com architecture microservices distributed systems 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("database reliability engineering zero-downtime upgrade 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("site:news.ycombinator.com distributed systems architecture 2026", topic: 'news', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("site:lobste.rs distributed systems architecture 2026", topic: 'news', time_range: 'week')
```

#### GitHub Trending & Lobste.rs
Scrape the following pages in parallel to collect at least 50 repositories/items before filtering:

```
obscura_web_scrape("https://github.com/trending?since=daily")
obscura_web_scrape("https://github.com/trending?since=weekly")
obscura_web_scrape("https://github.com/trending/python?since=daily")
obscura_web_scrape("https://github.com/trending/go?since=daily")
obscura_web_scrape("https://github.com/trending/rust?since=daily")
obscura_web_scrape("https://lobste.rs/")
obscura_web_scrape("https://lobste.rs/newest")
```

Extract from each page: repo name, star total, stars today/this week, language, description. Deduplicate across pages (keep the entry with the highest star velocity). You must collect **at least 50 distinct repositories** before scoring. Pick the 15–20 most architecturally relevant for the final digest.

#### Languages & Tooling
```
tavily_search("programming language release rust golang typescript c++ 2026", topic: 'news', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("developer tooling IDE compiler announcement 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("site:lobste.rs programming language tooling compiler 2026", topic: 'news', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("infoq.com developer tools platform engineering 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
```

#### Cloud & Infrastructure
```
tavily_search("AWS GCP Azure kubernetes infrastructure announcement 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("data center network fabric AI infrastructure 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("cloud provider new service announcement infoq 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
```

#### AI & Agents
```
tavily_search("AI agent architecture production multi-agent system 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("LLM agent orchestration workflow enterprise 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("MCP model context protocol security architecture 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("infoq.com AI agents agentic systems context management 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
```

#### Hugging Face Papers
Scrape the Hugging Face daily papers pages in parallel to collect at least 30 candidate papers before filtering:

```
obscura_web_scrape("https://huggingface.co/papers", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://huggingface.co/papers/week", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://huggingface.co/papers/month", dump: 'text')
```

Extract from each page: paper title, arXiv ID, upvote count, and the one-line abstract. Deduplicate across pages (keep the entry with the highest upvotes). Also run:

```
tavily_search("huggingface.co/papers trending LLM agents 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("arxiv trending paper reasoning agents inference efficiency 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
```

For papers that make the shortlist, fetch the arXiv abstract page for detail:

```
obscura_web_scrape("https://arxiv.org/abs/{arxiv_id}", dump: 'text')
```

Prioritize papers with architectural significance: new model architectures, inference/serving efficiency, agent frameworks, evaluation methodology, context management, and training/inference systems work — over pure benchmark-chasing results.

#### CS Research
```
tavily_search("site:queue.acm.org distributed systems database paper 2026", time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("arxiv.org cs.DC cs.DB distributed systems 2026", topic: 'news', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("post-quantum cryptography migration security 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("observability tracing AI agent research 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
```

#### Tech & Startup Book Reviews
Scrape and search the following sources in parallel. Focus on books published or reviewed in the past 90 days:

```
obscura_web_scrape("https://commoncog.com/blog/", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://fivebooks.com/category/technology/", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://fs.blog/category/reading/book-reviews/", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://www.oreilly.com/radar/", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://bookauthority.org/books/new-software-engineering-books", dump: 'text')
obscura_web_scrape("https://bookauthority.org/books/new-startup-founders-books", dump: 'text')
tavily_search("new technology startup book review 2026", topic: 'news', search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("site:commoncog.com book review", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')
tavily_search("site:fs.blog book summary 2026", search_depth: 'advanced', time_range: 'week')

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