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Reuters News Bosch

Generates Bosch-inspired editorial images from Reuters' most-read stories.

Reuters News Bosch

Generate a daily news allegory from Reuters Chartbeat's most-read stories, publish it to the public site, and deliver the live link to Telegram. The entire pipeline is deterministic and runs unattended from a single orchestrator script. Generation, publishing, and delivery are fully automated end to end; no step requires human review or model calls beyond theme derivation.

Generate

The whole generation pipeline runs from one allowlisted orchestrator:

{{HOME}}/bin/reuters-news-bosch-cron.sh

It performs these discrete, individually testable steps and writes everything into a dated run directory under ${HOME}/.openclaw/workspace/tmp/reuters-news-bosch/:

  1. scripts/chartbeat_snapshot.py --limit 10 — immutable ranked source snapshot (chartbeat.json). Stops if fewer than five suitable stories.
  2. scripts/direction_card.py --date <today> --runs-root <root> — deterministic, date-seeded creative direction (direction.json), including avoidRecentMotifs derived from recent manifests.
  3. scripts/derive_themes.py — derives 3-6 themes (themes.json) plus a themes-meta.json sidecar. Themes come from the configured default model via openclaw infer model run --json (no --model, so it follows config). The response is strictly validated: every theme must cite at least one real story rank. If the model is throttled, unavailable, or returns invalid output, it falls back to a deterministic, content-aware rule-based deriver so the edition always ships. themeSource records model or fallback.
  4. scripts/compose_edition.py — deterministic assembly of prompt.txt, alt.txt, and caption.md from the snapshot, direction card, and themes. The prompt builds a panoramic three-part allegory (left: origins/causes; center: the central conflict; right: aftermath/risks), honors the direction card, avoids avoidRecentMotifs, and instructs the model to invent a fresh symbolic vocabulary.
  5. Image generation — openclaw infer image generate --model openai/gpt-image-2 (OpenAI only, --size 1536x1024, --timeout-ms 900000) with up to three retries. scripts/select_image.py normalizes the output to image.png and fails hard on an empty or missing image. 5c. scripts/validate_image.py — deterministic image sanity gate that replaces the old human review for mechanical failures. Rejects an unreadable, wrongly-shaped (non-landscape, e.g. a 1:1 fallback), truncated, or near-blank frame before any manifest build or publish. No model calls.
  6. scripts/build_manifest.py --meta-file themes-meta.json — writes manifest.json (provenance, themeSource, motifsUsed) and preview.md. Recording motifsUsed re-enables motif repetition control for future runs.
  7. scripts/publish_to_site.py --publish — deterministic, unattended publish of the edition to the public site (see Publish below). No model calls.
  8. Telegram delivery — sends the live page link and the image once publishing has fully finished. On any failure the orchestrator sends a concise Telegram failure notice and logs to ${HOME}/.openclaw/logs/kip-reuters-news-bosch.log.
  9. Housekeeping — best-effort pruning of run directories (keeps the most recent
    1. and rotation of the log once it exceeds 5 MB. Never fails a successful run.

Before any generation, an idempotency guard checks the published index: if today's date is already live, the run is skipped so a cron retry cannot regenerate and replace an existing edition. Set BOSCH_FORCE_REPUBLISH=1 to intentionally rebuild a day.

The published edition goes live at https://kip.computer/apps/news-bosch/YYYY/MM/DD.

Publish

Publishing is automatic: the orchestrator runs scripts/publish_to_site.py with --publish as a deterministic, token-free subprocess after the manifest is built. It passes the exact date and the image model used, so no LLM reasoning is involved in publishing. To run it manually (e.g. to re-publish a previous run) invoke:

python scripts/publish_to_site.py \
  --run-dir "$RUN_DIR" \
  --repo "${HOME}/Code/kip-claw" \
  --date "<YYYY-MM-DD>" \
  --model "<provider/model from the image generation result>" \
  --publish

The command:

  1. Converts the approved image to a web-optimized WebP.
  2. Copies it to static/images/news-bosch/YYYY/MM/DD.webp.
  3. Inserts or replaces that date in src/lib/newsBosch.json.
  4. Records the exact image model and the reuters-news-bosch skill for the public AI disclosure.
  5. Runs repo-local Prettier, npm run lint, npm run check, and npm run build.
  6. With --publish, first asserts kip-claw is on a clean main (no other branch, no pre-existing staged changes) and aborts otherwise, then commits only the generated image and archive index, and pushes main with rebase-and-retry (push_with_retry) so a transient network error or a concurrent non-fast-forward push is retried with backoff.

Omit --publish to stage and validate a local preview without committing or pushing.

Files

Each run directory contains:

  • chartbeat.json: immutable ranked source snapshot.
  • direction.json: deterministic daily creative direction and recent motifs to avoid.
  • themes.json: theme names, interpretations, and supporting story ranks.
  • themes-meta.json: theme provenance (themeSource, model, motifs).
  • prompt.txt: exact image prompt.
  • image-result.json: raw image generation result envelope.
  • image.png: generated artwork.
  • alt.txt: visible composition description.
  • caption.md: short disclosure and source-oriented caption.
  • manifest.json: provenance and artifact metadata.
  • preview.md: human-readable review sheet.

Rules

  • Every theme must cite at least one story rank from chartbeat.json.
  • Use the date-seeded direction card so rerunning a date produces the same creative constraints.
  • Record concrete motifs used in manifest.json after review. Future runs use recent manifests to discourage repetition.
  • Keep factual story data separate from creative interpretation.
  • Label the work as AI-generated editorial artwork based on a point-in-time Reuters Chartbeat ranking.
  • Represent public figures symbolically unless identity is essential and supported by the reporting.
  • Do not imply unsupported wrongdoing or private conduct.
  • Do not substitute a homepage scrape if Chartbeat fails.
  • Publishing is automatic and deterministic; it runs unattended with no model calls. If a run must be withheld, stop the orchestrator before the publish step rather than relying on a manual review gate.
  • Treat replacing an existing date as an intentional revision and mention it in the commit message.