Scheduled AI Research and Reporting

Key jargon

Term	Plain-language meaning
Scheduler	A service that starts work at a configured time or interval.
Freshness window	The maximum acceptable age of information for a report.
Source ledger	A record of consulted sources, dates, evidence strength, and supported claims.
Publication gate	Checks that must pass before a generated artifact is distributed.

Key concepts

Separate collection, extraction, synthesis, verification, and publishing into observable stages.
Scheduled generation is not self-validating; stale sources and silent partial failures must block publication.

Concept map

flowchart LR
    A["Schedule bounded collection"] --> B["Extract with source ledger"]
    B --> C["Synthesize and verify claims"]
    C --> D["Approve then publish"]

Controlled cycle

Fixed query and source policy.
Date/cutoff and bounded collection budget.
Deduplicate against prior source IDs.
Extract claims with source/date/evidence status.
Reconcile contradictions and staleness.
Draft changes separately from published truth.
Human review before publication.
Record no-change outcome and next scheduled run.

Loop brakes

Maximum sources, pages, cost, elapsed time, recursion depth, and consecutive no-change runs. Stop on access barriers, conflicting high-impact evidence, or source-policy failure.

Exercise

Design a weekly model-release digest using only official provider release notes. Specify change detection and how a retracted or silently edited release is handled.