Daily research agent

The canonical end-to-end agent: every weekday at 8am, it searches the web on a topic, summarizes the findings, and sends them to your phone via iMessage. No client code. No server code. One config file.

Prerequisites

A swarmlord account.
A Sendblue account with an API key.
Your iMessage-capable phone number.

1. Set the secrets

swarmlord secret set SENDBLUE_API_KEY_ID
swarmlord secret set SENDBLUE_API_SECRET_KEY

2. Scaffold

swarmlord init research-agent
cd research-agent

3. The bundle

Replace swarmlord.jsonc:

swarmlord.jsonc

{
  "name": "research-agent",
  "model": { "providerId": "openrouter", "modelId": "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8" },

  "instructions": [
    "You are a research assistant.",
    "When invoked, search the web on the user's topic, read the top sources, and",
    "send a 5-bullet summary to +1XXXXXXXXXX via the sendblue MCP.",
    "Cite the URL after each bullet. Keep the total reply under 800 characters."
  ].join("\n"),

  "mcps": ["sendblue"],
  "secretGrants": ["SENDBLUE_API_KEY_ID", "SENDBLUE_API_SECRET_KEY"],

  "triggers": [
    { "kind": "cron", "expression": "0 8 * * 1-5" }
  ],

  "command": {
    "research": {
      "template": "Research \"${1}\" and text me a 5-bullet summary with citations."
    }
  }
}

Replace +1XXXXXXXXXX with your real phone number.

4. Deploy

swarmlord deploy

5. Try it

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The agent will call websearch, webfetch, then send_message (Sendblue). A text lands on your phone with the summary and links.

6. Let cron take over

The cron fires every weekday at 8am UTC. To make the topic dynamic, swap the trigger to a webhook and POST the topic in from your morning routine.

Variations

News digest — “summarize the top 5 tech stories from the last 24 hours.”
Stock watch — add a customTools block for a price lookup, send a daily snapshot.
PR review — add the github MCP, diff yesterday’s PRs each morning.
Slack instead — swap sendblue for the slack MCP and post to a channel.

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Daily research agent

Prerequisites

1. Set the secrets

2. Scaffold

3. The bundle

4. Deploy

5. Try it

6. Let cron take over

Variations

​Prerequisites

​1. Set the secrets

​2. Scaffold

​3. The bundle

​4. Deploy

​5. Try it

​6. Let cron take over

​Variations

Prerequisites

1. Set the secrets

2. Scaffold

3. The bundle

4. Deploy

5. Try it

6. Let cron take over

Variations