AI agents for research & monitoring

Agents that watch Reddit, X, HN, SEO data and trends and send you digests. Each entry has a copy-paste prompt, difficulty, setup time and known pitfalls.

Use cases

Research & monitoringReddit

Schedule Reddit, email and Search Console digests

Isolated cron jobs scan Reddit, check inboxes, and pull Google Search Console data, then send summaries to Telegram.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~20 min per job (source)
  • Evidence Strong evidence
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
Research & monitoringX · 2026-03

Build a NotebookLM + Obsidian research vault

Claude Code sends a pile of videos, PDFs and articles through NotebookLM and turns the output into linked Obsidian notes covering scenarios, actors and probabilities.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Claude CodeSource-linked
Research & monitoringX · 2025-07

Comet vs ChatGPT Agent vs Claude: research to Notion

Same research-and-save task given to three agents. Comet used the existing in-browser Notion session and created the note in one go.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Some evidence
ChatGPT AgentPerplexity CometClaudeSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
Research & monitoringX · 2026-03

Auto-build a trends dashboard and host it on surge.sh

The agent publishes static sites to surge.sh as needed. The main use is a personal news and trends dashboard.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
Research & monitoringReddit

Daily Reddit digest that learns your taste

Every day at 5pm it sends the top posts from chosen subreddits, asks whether you liked them, and saves your preferences as rules.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendlyNeeds verification
Research & monitoringWeb

Earnings-season tracker with one-shot crons

Every Sunday it posts the week's tech earnings calendar. You pick companies, it schedules a job per report, and posts beat/miss, EPS, guidance and AI highlights.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
Research & monitoringWeb

Pre-build idea validator

Before coding anything, it scans GitHub, HN, npm, PyPI and Product Hunt for competitors and stops if the space is crowded.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendlyNeeds verification
Research & monitoringWeb

Drop-a-link personal knowledge base (RAG)

Drop URLs, tweets, YouTube links or PDFs in chat to ingest them, then ask questions and get ranked excerpts with sources. Other workflows query it too.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
Research & monitoringHacker News

Amateur used Claude Code to find a possible new planet

An amateur used Claude Code to search public data and flagged what may be an undiscovered planet. It reached 301 points on HN.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Claude CodeSource-linked
Research & monitoringWeb

Polymarket paper-trading autopilot

Paper trades on prediction markets with backtesting, strategy analysis and daily P&L reports. No real money.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
Research & monitoringWeb

YouTube niche research MCP + subagent report

An MCP server gets the top 10 niche videos with engagement metrics and thumbnails, then hands off to one subagent that writes a research report to disk.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Claude CodeSource-linked

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