follow-builders README

The project's README from github.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders. As one markdown file: README.md.

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Follow Builders, Not Influencers

An AI-powered digest that tracks the top builders in AI — researchers, founders, PMs, and engineers who are actually building things — and delivers curated summaries of what they're saying.

Philosophy: Follow people who build products and have original opinions, not influencers who regurgitate information.

What You Get

A daily or weekly digest delivered to your preferred messaging app (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, etc.) with:

Quick Start

  1. Install the skill in your agent (OpenClaw or Claude Code)
  2. Say "set up follow builders" or invoke /follow-builders
  3. The agent walks you through setup conversationally — no config files to edit

The agent will ask you:

No API keys needed — all content is fetched centrally. Your first digest arrives immediately after setup.

Changing Settings

Your delivery preferences are configurable through conversation. Just tell your agent:

The source list (builders and podcasts) is curated centrally and updates automatically — you always get the latest sources without doing anything.

Customizing the Summaries

The skill uses plain-English prompt files to control how content is summarized. You can customize them two ways:

Through conversation (recommended): Tell your agent what you want — "Make summaries more concise," "Focus on actionable insights," "Use a more casual tone." The agent updates the prompts for you.

Direct editing (power users): Edit the files in the prompts/ folder:

These are plain English instructions, not code. Changes take effect on the next digest.

Default Sources

Podcasts (6)

AI Builders on X (26)

Andrej Karpathy, Swyx, Josh Woodward, Boris Cherny, Thibault Sottiaux, Peter Yang, Nan Yu, Madhu Guru, Amanda Askell, Cat Wu, Thariq, Google Labs, Amjad Masad, Guillermo Rauch, Alex Albert, Aaron Levie, Ryo Lu, Garry Tan, Matt Turck, Zara Zhang, Nikunj Kothari, Peter Steinberger, Dan Shipper, Aditya Agarwal, Sam Altman, Claude

Official Blogs (2)

Installation

OpenClaw

# From ClawhHub (coming soon)
clawhub install follow-builders

# Or manually
git clone https://github.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders.git ~/skills/follow-builders
cd ~/skills/follow-builders/scripts && npm install

Claude Code

git clone https://github.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders.git ~/.claude/skills/follow-builders
cd ~/.claude/skills/follow-builders/scripts && npm install

Requirements

That's it. No API keys needed. All content (blog articles + YouTube transcripts + X/Twitter posts) is fetched centrally and updated daily.

How It Works

  1. A central feed is updated daily with the latest content from all sources (blog articles via web scraping, YouTube transcripts via Supadata, X/Twitter via official API)
  2. Your agent fetches the feed — one HTTP request, no API keys
  3. Your agent remixes the raw content into a digestible summary using your preferences
  4. The digest is delivered to your messaging app (or shown in-chat)

See examples/sample-digest.md for what the output looks like.

Privacy

License

MIT

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这是做什么的?一个摘要订阅服务,跟踪 X 和 AI 播客上的顶尖 AI 实战者——研究员、创始人、产品经理、工程师——并为你送上他们发言的精选摘要。口号是:关注做产品的人,而不是网红。
这是一个我要安装的应用,还是装在我的 AI 代理里的东西?都不是——它是一个安装到 AI 代理(比如 OpenClaw 或 Claude Code)里的技能。由代理去抓取内容,按照你的偏好写摘要,并把摘要推送给你。
怎么设置?先安装技能,然后说 'set up follow builders' 或调用 /follow-builders。代理会用对话方式带你完成设置——不用改任何配置文件——询问你想要的频率、语言和推送方式。
需要先装好什么才能用?只需要一个 AI 代理(OpenClaw、Claude Code 或类似的)和网络连接。不需要任何 API 密钥:博客、YouTube 字幕和 X 帖子都是集中抓取、每天更新的。
我能自己选择关注哪些实战者和播客吗?不能——实战者和播客的来源列表是集中维护的,会自动更新,所以你不用做任何操作,来源也能保持最新。
我的数据会离开我的电脑吗?几乎不会:因为内容是集中抓取的,不会发送任何 API 密钥;你的配置、偏好和阅读记录都留在你自己的电脑上。这个技能只读取公开内容。
默认覆盖哪些播客和实战者?六个播客:Latent Space、Training Data、No Priors、Unsupervised Learning、The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck,以及 Every 出品的 AI & I。X 上有二十六位实战者,包括 Andrej Karpathy、Sam Altman、Amanda Askell、Boris Cherny 和 Guillermo Rauch。另外还有两个官方博客:Anthropic Engineering 和 Claude Blog。
为什么要关注实战者而不是网红?作者的理念是:关注那些真正做产品、有原创观点的人,而不是只会复述信息的网红。
我的第一期摘要什么时候到?设置一完成就会立刻收到——不需要等待。
安装之前能先看看摘要长什么样吗?可以——仓库里有 examples/sample-digest.md,展示了输出的格式。
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