radar

Your daily tech-watch, scored and actionable — as a Claude Code skill.

Turn any list of sources into a deduplicated, prioritized Markdown digest that explains each item in plain language and tells you why it matters for your projects. Multi-domain, config-driven, zero hardcoded paths.

Demo

radar reads your sources.yml, scans each source, deduplicates against the running index, scores the results against your profile, and writes a clean Markdown digest — each item explained simply, with a personalized "why it matters to you".

Quick start

Three commands inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add Samdev2420/radar-ai
/plugin install radar
/radar

The first two install the plugin; /radar runs your first digest once you have declared your sources. See docs/installation.md for manual install and source setup.

Why

Keeping up with a fast-moving domain usually means one of two bad options: skim a dozen tabs every morning, or fall behind. radar gives you a third option — declare your sources once, then run a single command to get a short, scored, actionable digest in under a minute.

It is built for staying current in less than 24 hours without spending hours doing it. radar does not assume any topic: AI, crypto, biotech, design — if it has a URL or a search query, radar can watch it.

Example sources

Sources live in a single YAML file. Each one declares a method: webfetch (read a page), websearch (run a query), or github_trending (scan trending repos).

sources:
  # Read a specific page.
  - name: Anthropic News
    method: webfetch
    url: https://www.anthropic.com/news
    priority: high          # high | medium | low (optional)
    tags: [ai, claude]

  # Run a web search query.
  - name: Claude feature updates
    method: websearch
    query: "Claude new feature update"
    priority: medium
    tags: [ai]

  # Scan GitHub trending (daily).
  - name: GitHub Trending (daily)
    method: github_trending
    url: https://github.com/trending?since=daily
    priority: medium
    tags: [dev, oss]

Swap these for your own sources to watch any topic — the skill makes no assumptions about the domain. The full starter file is config/sources.example.yml, and a sample output digest is in examples/2026-05-31-digest-example.md.

Make it yours — the adaptive profile

The difference between a feed and a digest is relevance to you. In config/radar.config.yml you can declare a profile — your role, interests, and projects:

profile:
  role: "Solo founder building developer tools"
  interests: [AI agents, developer productivity, open source]
  projects:
    - name: my-web-app
      stack: "React, Supabase"
      focus: "SaaS dashboard"

With a profile set, radar does two extra things on every item:

• Explains it simply — a jargon-free "What it is", written for someone who has never heard of the product.
• Connects it to you — a "Why it matters to you" that names the actual project, stack, or interest affected ("this cuts your my-web-app token costs"), and ranks items that touch your projects to the top.

Leave profile out and radar runs in generic mode. See a full personalized digest in examples/2026-05-31-digest-example.md.

Customization

radar reads a second file, config/radar.config.yml, where you control the output. You can tune:

• Profile — your role, interests, and projects, used to rank and personalize.
• Scoring — how each item is ranked by relevance and impact.
• Categories — the sections your digest is organized into.
• Language — the language the digest is written in.
• Output — where digests and the dedup index are written.

Full field reference: docs/configuration.md.

How it works

radar is opinionated about one thing: a tech-watch digest is only useful if it is short, scored, and actionable. The scan, dedup, scoring, and formatting pipeline is documented in docs/methodology.md.

For installation details, both as a plugin and manually, see docs/installation.md.

Roadmap

Not yet shipped — planned directions:

• Scheduled generation — run radar automatically on a cron schedule (for example via a /schedule integration) so the digest lands without you typing the command.
• Output presets — first-class export targets such as Notion and Obsidian, in addition to the Markdown file output available today.

These are ideas, not commitments. Feedback and contributions on the roadmap are welcome.

License

radar is released under the MIT License.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Start with the contributing guide and the code of conduct. For security issues, please use GitHub's private vulnerability reporting as described in the security policy — never email.