briarPipe

be your own newsboy — set up your paper

What to cover Your interests — free text. The more specific, the sharper the curation. Topic tags — comma separated, optional Bootstrap sources — one URL per line. Used only on the first run to seed your source base.

Schedule & voice

How often

Edition name

Language

Timezone

Writing style / voice — how should your editor write? e.g. "funny", "relaxed", "stiff & formal", "80's radio DJ".

Budget

Max tokens per run

Cultivation slice: 20% — share of tokens spent growing/pruning your sources.

Max stories

Summary length

Sections — comma separated

Editor & delivery API base URL — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Bring your own provider.

Model

Key env var — where the key is read from

The key itself goes in an env var / Actions secret (or the Secrets section below), never inline here.

Delivery

Send to — for email

Also save a copy to — optional local folder; only used on your own machine, ignored on GitHub Actions / cloud. '~' is expanded.

Secrets — optional

⚠ Leave these blank to keep config.yaml safe to commit, and provide them through the environment instead — local env vars / a .env, or GitHub Actions secrets in CI. If you do fill them in here, the generated config.yaml holds live credentials, so don't commit it.

AI provider API key — or set it in your environment / Actions secrets

SMTP host — email gateway

SMTP port

SMTP user

SMTP password

SMTP from — optional; defaults to the SMTP user

Save the result as config.yaml in your briarPipe repo and commit it.

Fill in the form and click “Generate config.yaml”.