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❯ /weekly-review ai 

● I'll generate the AI weekly review article. Let me start by reading the
  subject-specific guidance.

● Read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

● Now let me search for the top AI news from the past week (March 2-8, 2026).

● Web Search("large language models LLM news March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 9s

● Web Search("AI breakthroughs machine learning March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 8s

● Web Search("OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind news March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 10s

● Web Search("AI safety alignment research March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 8s

● Web Search("neural network architecture breakthrough March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 25s

● Web Search("foundation models AI applications March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 9s

● Let me search for more specific recent news from this past week.

● Web Search(""Claude 5" Anthropic release announcement 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 6s

● Web Search("GPT-5 OpenAI release news March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 7s

● Web Search("AI robotics humanoid robots March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 8s

● Web Search("AI chip semiconductor news March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 8s

● Excellent, let me gather more details on the most promising stories.

● Fetch(https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/openai-launches-gpt-5-4-with-pro-and-t
       hinking-versions/)
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Fetch(https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-026-00968-0)
  ⎿  Error: Request failed with status code 303

● Fetch(https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/08/honor-unveils-humanoid-
       robot-alongside-new-ai-devices-at-mobile-world-congress/99356/)
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Fetch(https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-data-tools-accelerate-ai/)
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Let me try fetching these individually.

● Fetch(https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/openai-launches-gpt-5-4-with-pro-and-t
       hinking-versions/)
  ⎿  Received 218.4KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-data-tools-accelerate-ai/)
  ⎿  Received 109.9KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/08/honor-unveils-humanoid-
       robot-alongside-new-ai-devices-at-mobile-world-congress/99356/)
  ⎿  Received 129.3KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/08/kddi-and-avita-partner-
       to-develop-humanoid-robots-for-real-world-service-roles/99339/)
  ⎿  Received 130.1KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/us-drafts-rules-for-s
       weeping-power-over-nvidia-s-global-sales)
  ⎿  Error: Request failed with status code 403

● Fetch(https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-for
       mation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation)
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Fetch(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microcloud-hologram-inc-achieve
       s-breakthrough-in-practically-deployable-quantum-recurrent-neural-network
       -qrnn-technology-oriented-toward-sequential-learning-302704102.html)
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Web Search("Gemini 3 Flash Google release March 2026")
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Fetch(https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-for
       mation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation)
  ⎿  Received 95.8KB (200 OK)

● Web Search("Gemini 3 Flash Google AI model announcement 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 7s

● Web Search("Apple Siri AI iOS 26 March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 7s

● Fetch(https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/
       gemini-3-1-flash-lite/)
  ⎿  Received 363.6KB (200 OK)

● Web Search("International AI Safety Report 2026 Yoshua Bengio findings")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 10s

● Fetch(https://www.insideprivacy.com/artificial-intelligence/international-ai-s
       afety-report-2026-examines-ai-capabilities-risks-and-safeguards/)
  ⎿  Received 126.4KB (200 OK)

● Web Search("AI medical diagnosis breakthrough EKG heart March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 7s

● Fetch(https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-helps-diagnose-ofte
       n-undetected-heart-disease-simple-ekg)
  ⎿  Error: Request failed with status code 403

● Web Search("NVIDIA GTC 2026 announcements physical AI robotics")
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Web Search("NVIDIA GTC 2026 announcements physical AI robotics Jensen Huang")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 5s

● Fetch(https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/nvidia-ces-2026-jensen-huang-speech-ai)
  ⎿  Error: Request failed with status code 403

● Web Search("AI coding assistant software development breakthrough March 2026")
  ⎿  Error: Sibling tool call errored

● Web Search("AI coding assistant software development breakthrough March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 6s

● Fetch(https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130027/generative-coding-ai
       -software-2026-breakthrough-technology/)
  ⎿  Interrupted · What should Claude do instead?

● Web Search("AI video generation Sora Runway March 2026")
  ⎿  Did 1 search in 6s

❯ in weekly-review you seem to be fetching a very lange number of articles  
  and asking me periodically if it is ok to fetch from a particular site.   
  What is the limit on number of articles you are going to look at before   
  picking best 10 and generating the report? Is there a way I can get you   
  to stop asking if you can fetch?                                          

● Good questions:

  1. Article limit: The skill instructions say to gather 15-20 candidates to
  select the best 10. I've been doing more searches than necessary - I should be
   more focused.
  2. Stopping the permission prompts: The WebFetch permission prompts are a
  Claude Code safety feature. You can configure auto-approval by running:
  /allowed-tools
  2. and adding WebFetch to your allowed tools, or you can add specific domain
  patterns.

  Alternatively, you can just tell me to proceed without fetching full articles
  - I can write the review based on the search result summaries I've already
  gathered, which contain substantial information.

  Would you like me to:
  - A) Stop fetching and write the article now using the search results I
  already have (I have good coverage of ~12-15 strong candidates)
  - B) Continue but limit to just 2-3 more targeted fetches before writing

❯ /permissions 
  ⎿  Permissions dialog dismissed

❯ the /allowed tools has a WebFetch for a LOT of sites.  I want to allow    
  WebFetch for all of them I don't want to do it one at a time              

● You can allow WebFetch globally by adding it without URL restrictions. Run:

  /permissions

  Then add:
  WebFetch

  Without any URL pattern, it will allow all WebFetch requests.

  Alternatively, you can edit ~/.claude/settings.json directly and add
  "WebFetch" to the "allowedTools" array.

  ---
  For now, should I just proceed and write the article with what I've gathered?
  I have enough material from the searches to select 10 strong items.

❯ /permissions 
  ⎿  Permissions dialog dismissed

❯ That does not work. It still lists all of them and wants me to pick one 

● Let me check your settings file directly and help you add a global WebFetch
  permission.

● Read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

● I see - your settings don't have any tool permissions yet. Let me add a global
   WebFetch permission:

● Update(~/.claude/settings.json)
  ⎿  Added 5 lines
       3      "python-development@claude-code-workflows": true,          
       4      "code-review-ai@claude-code-workflows": true,              
       5      "weekly-review@local-workflows": true                      
       6 +  },                                                           
       7 +  "permissions": {                                             
       8 +    "allow": [                                                 
       9 +      "WebFetch"                                               
      10 +    ]                                                          
      11    }                                                            
      12  }                                                              

● Done. WebFetch should now work without prompts.

  Let me proceed to write the article with the research I've gathered. I have
  strong coverage of the week's top AI stories.

● Write(ai/ai-03092026.md)
  ⎿  Wrote 132 lines to ai/ai-03092026.md
     # AI Weekly Review - March 2 to March 8, 2026

     ## Week In Review

     This week marked a significant inflection point for AI capabilities,
     with OpenAI releasing [GPT-5.4](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/opena
     i-launches-gpt-5-4-with-pro-and-thinking-versions/) featuring native
     computer-use abilities that surpass human performance on software
     interaction benchmarks. Google countered with [Gemini 3.1 
     Flash-Lite](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/g
     emini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-lite/), optimizing for speed and
     cost-efficiency rather than raw capability—a strategic acknowledgment
     that practical deployment often matters more than benchmark supremacy.

     The physical AI revolution continued its acceleration, with [Honor 
     unveiling a humanoid 
     robot](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/08/honor-unveils-h
     umanoid-robot-alongside-new-ai-devices-at-mobile-world-congress/99356/)
      at Mobile World Congress and [KDDI partnering with 
     Avita](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/08/kddi-and-avita-
     partner-to-develop-humanoid-robots-for-real-world-service-roles/99339/)
      on service robots powered by Google's Gemini. Meanwhile, NVIDIA
     released a sweeping collection of [open models and datasets](https://bl
     ogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-data-tools-accelerate-ai/) spanning
     robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drug discovery—democratizing
     capabilities that were proprietary just months ago.

     The week also brought sobering developments on governance and safety.
     The U.S. Commerce Department drafted [regulations requiring permits for
      global AI chip sales](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-
     05/us-drafts-rules-for-sweeping-power-over-nvidia-s-global-sales),
     potentially reshaping the international AI landscape. And as the
     [International AI Safety Report 2026](https://www.insideprivacy.com/art
     ificial-intelligence/international-ai-safety-report-2026-examines-ai-ca
     pabilities-risks-and-safeguards/) documented, models are now
     sophisticated enough to engage in "alignment faking"—behaving safely
     during evaluations while acting differently in deployment. The gap
     between AI capabilities and our ability to verify safe behavior
     continues to widen.



     … +122 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● Done. Created ai/ai-03092026.md with the AI weekly review covering March 2-8,
  2026.

  The 10 items selected:
  1. OpenAI GPT-5.4 with computer-use capabilities
  2. Google Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite release
  3. NVIDIA open models and datasets collection
  4. International AI Safety Report 2026 (alignment faking findings)
  5. Honor humanoid robot at MWC 2026
  6. KDDI/Avita service robot partnership
  7. U.S. draft rules on global AI chip permits
  8. Linux Foundation Agentic AI Foundation launch
  9. CATS Net concept-forming neural network (Nature)
  10. AI coding tool adoption hits 73%

✻ Cooked for 1m 51s

❯ ls ai 

● Read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

● ai-03092026.md   (16.5 KB - just created)
  SUBJECT.md       (subject instructions)

❯ cool.  I am surprised it ran this slowly.  I did the same task in         
  Perplexity Pro using a weaker prompt and it finished in less than 5       
  minutes.                                                                  

● Fair criticism. I over-engineered it:

  1. Too many searches - I did 10+ searches when 4-5 focused ones would have
  sufficed
  2. Excessive fetch attempts - Many failed (403s, paywalls), and the search
  result summaries already contained enough detail to write the synopses
  3. Sequential fetches after parallel failures - I kept retrying instead of
  moving on

  Perplexity is also purpose-built for web research with better site access and
  caching.

  Next time I'd:
  - Do 3-4 targeted searches in parallel
  - Write directly from search summaries (they're quite detailed)
  - Only fetch 2-3 articles where I genuinely need more depth
  - Skip sites that block on first failure

  The skill could also be tuned to specify "write from search summaries, fetch
  sparingly" to set expectations upfront.

❯ update the skill to be more efficient 

● Searched for 1 pattern, read 2 files (ctrl+o to expand)

● Update(.claude/skills/weekly-review/SKILL.md)
  ⎿  Added 10 lines, removed 11 lines
      29  2. **Read subject-specific guidance**                          
      30     - Read `<subject-directory>/SUBJECT.md` for search terms,   
          priority sources, and emphasis areas                           
      31                                                                 
      32 -3. **Research the past week**                                  
      33 -   - Use WebSearch with the search terms from SUBJECT.md       
      32 +3. **Research the past week (be efficient)**                   
      33 +   - Run 3-4 WebSearches in parallel using search terms from   
         +SUBJECT.md                                                     
      34     - Cover the 7 days ending yesterday                         
      35 -   - Look for: news articles, research papers, announcements,  
         -breakthroughs                                                  
      36 -   - Use priority sources from SUBJECT.md                      
      37 -   - Gather 15-20 candidates to select the best 10             
      35 +   - WebSearch summaries contain substantial detail—use them   
         +directly                                                       
      36 +   - Do NOT run additional search rounds; 3-4 searches is      
         +sufficient                                                     
      37                                                                 
      38 -4. **Select the best 10 items** based on:                      
      38 +4. **Select the best 10 items** from search results based on:  
      39     - Future and technology positive framing                    
      40     - College graduate sophistication (substantive, not dumbed  
          down)                                                          
      41     - Lay interest appropriate (accessible to educated          
          non-specialists)                                               
      42     - Importance OR novelty to the field                        
      43                                                                 
      44 -5. **For each selected item**                                  
      45 -   - Use WebFetch to get full article content when needed      
      46 -   - Find a relevant image URL from the source (omit if none   
         -suitable)                                                      
      47 -   - Write a 3-5 paragraph accessible but substantive synopsis 
      48 -   - Translate technical contributions for educated laypeople  
      44 +5. **Write from search summaries**                             
      45 +   - Search result summaries contain enough detail for 3-5     
         +paragraph synopses                                             
      46 +   - Only use WebFetch for 2-3 items max where critical detail 
         + is missing                                                    
      47 +   - Skip any WebFetch that fails (403, paywall, etc.)—do not  
         +retry                                                          
      48 +   - Omit images rather than searching for them; include only  
         +if URL is in search results                                    
      49                                                                 
      50  6. **Write the article**                                       
      51     - Filename: `<subject-directory>/<subject>-MMDDYYYY.md`     
          (e.g., `ai-03092026.md`)                                       

● Updated. Key changes:

  - 3-4 searches max (in parallel), no additional rounds
  - Write from search summaries - they contain enough detail
  - WebFetch sparingly - 2-3 items max, only when critical detail is missing
  - Skip failed fetches - don't retry 403s/paywalls
  - Omit images unless URL is already in search results

  This should cut the runtime significantly.

✻ Cogitated for 34s

❯ thanks.  So what makes Perplexity perhaps better at such requests and is  
  it possible to tall perplexity as part of the skill execution by its API  
  to do some of the work?                                                   

● Why Perplexity is better at this:

  1. Purpose-built for search+synthesis - Their entire architecture optimizes
  for this exact workflow
  2. Direct search index - They have their own crawlers, not just calling
  external search APIs
  3. Publisher relationships - Better access to paywalled/restricted content
  4. Single-pass architecture - Search, read, and synthesize in one step, not
  multiple round trips
  5. Pre-indexed content - Often serving cached summaries, not fetching live

  Yes, you can call Perplexity's API from the skill.

  Perplexity has a REST API. You could either:

  Option A: Direct API call in the skill
  curl -X POST "https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $PERPLEXITY_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"model": "sonar-pro", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": 
  "..."}]}'

  Option B: MCP server - There may already be a Perplexity MCP server, or one
  could be written to expose it as a tool.

  The skill could delegate the research phase to Perplexity ("find top 10 AI
  news items from this week with summaries and sources"), then I write the final
   article from their output.

  Want me to update the skill to use Perplexity's API for research?

❯ I will come back to that question later.  Another for now, Is there a way 
   I can save this session to a file?                                       

● Yes, use the /export command:

  /export

  This exports the conversation to a markdown file (typically in your current
  directory or a location you specify).

  You can also specify a path:
  /export ~/conversations/weekly-review-session.md

❯ /export 030926-weekly-report-setup 
  ⎿  Conversation exported to: 030926-weekly-report-setup.txt

❯ is there a good emacs interface to claude code beyond just using it in    
  one of its terminal views?                                                

● Not that I'm aware of. The official IDE integrations are VS Code and JetBrains
   only.

  Current options for Emacs:

  1. Terminal buffers (vterm, ansi-term) - what you're likely doing now
  2. gptel - Popular Emacs package that talks to Claude API directly (not Claude
   Code)
    - Supports Claude, GPT, etc.
    - Inline completions, chat buffers, region transforms
    - But it's raw API access, not the Claude Code agent with tools
  3. ellama - Similar to gptel, Ollama/API focused

  The gap: These packages call the Claude API directly but don't give you Claude
   Code's agentic capabilities (file editing, bash, search tools, etc.).

  Possible workarounds:
  - Run Claude Code in vterm with compilation-mode style error linking
  - Write an Emacs package that wraps the Claude Code CLI and parses its output
  - Use Claude Code's --print mode for scripted interactions

  An Emacs package that properly wraps Claude Code (sending context, receiving
  edits, applying them via Emacs buffers) would be a good project but doesn't
  exist yet to my knowledge.

❯ can I schedule the reviews to happen at 9am EST each on their allocated   
  day automatically?                                                        

● Yes, using cron. Claude Code can run non-interactively with the -p flag.

  Setup:

  1. Create a wrapper script:

  #!/bin/bash
  # /home/samantha/work/articles/run-weekly-review.sh

  cd /home/samantha/work/articles

  case $(date +%A) in
    Monday)    subject="ai" ;;
    Tuesday)   subject="intelligence-augmentation" ;;
    Wednesday) subject="longevity" ;;
    Thursday)  subject="resource-abundance" ;;
    Friday)    subject="energy" ;;
    Saturday)  subject="space" ;;
    *)         exit 0 ;;  # Sunday - skip
  esac

  claude -p "/weekly-review $subject" --allowedTools
  "WebFetch,WebSearch,Write,Read,Glob"

  2. Add to crontab (crontab -e):

  # 9am EST (adjust if system timezone differs)
  0 9 * * 1-6 TZ="America/New_York"
  /home/samantha/work/articles/run-weekly-review.sh >>
  /home/samantha/work/articles/logs/weekly-review.log 2>&1

  3. Create logs directory:
  mkdir -p /home/samantha/work/articles/logs

  Notes:
  - --allowedTools pre-authorizes the tools so it doesn't prompt
  - Add --model flag if you want a specific model
  - The -p flag runs non-interactively and exits when done

  Want me to create this script?

❯ Are there other ways such as maybe some n8n tooling?  

● Yes, several options:

  n8n (self-hosted workflow automation)
  - "Execute Command" node can run claude -p "/weekly-review ai"
  - Schedule trigger with cron expression
  - Add error handling, retries, notifications
  - Chain with other nodes: email the result, post to Slack, commit to git, etc.

  Other workflow tools:
  ┌─────────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
  │    Tool     │         Type         │                 Notes                 │
  ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ n8n         │ Self-hosted, visual  │ Execute Command node + Schedule       │
  │             │                      │ trigger                               │
  ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Temporal    │ Code-based           │ Overkill for this, but robust         │
  │             │ orchestration        │                                       │
  ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Prefect     │ Python workflows     │ subprocess.run(["claude", "-p",       │
  │             │                      │ "..."])                               │
  ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ GitHub      │ CI/CD                │ Scheduled workflows, even without a   │
  │ Actions     │                      │ repo push                             │
  ├─────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Huginn      │ Self-hosted agents   │ Similar to n8n, Ruby-based            │
  └─────────────┴──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘
  n8n example workflow:
  [Schedule Trigger: 0 9 * * 1-6]
      → [Set day/subject mapping]
      → [Execute Command: claude -p "/weekly-review $subject"]
      → [IF error] → [Send Slack/Email alert]
      → [IF success] → [Git commit + optional notification]

  Advantages over cron:
  - Visual monitoring dashboard
  - Built-in retry/error handling
  - Easy to add notifications
  - Can post results somewhere (email, Slack, CMS)

  Do you use n8n already, or want me to sketch out a specific workflow?