How to Build a Daily News Digest with Codex

Codex lives in the terminal. With AgentPatch connected, it can also generate a current news digest on any set of topics before you start a session — pulling live results from Google News and formatting them however you want.

Why This Matters

Starting a dev session with current context is underrated. If you’re building in a fast-moving space, a quick digest on recent developments — what competitors shipped, what the community is talking about, any relevant announcements — is useful framing before writing code.

The alternative is doing it manually: opening multiple tabs, checking multiple sources, synthesizing it yourself. Codex with Google News access can do that in one query.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.agentpatch]
url = "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "AGENTPATCH_API_KEY"

Then set your API key:

export AGENTPATCH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Replace your_api_key with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Codex discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically on next start.

Example

You start a Codex session in the morning before a sprint. You type:

“Before we get into code, give me a quick digest. Pull recent news on: ‘TypeScript’, ‘edge computing’, ‘Cloudflare Workers’, and ‘open source AI models’. Format it as a briefing — top 3 stories per topic with a one-sentence summary each.”

Codex calls Google News for each topic, pulls recent articles, and formats the output as a structured briefing. You get four sections, twelve stories total, in under a minute.

You notice something relevant:

“That Cloudflare Workers item about the new bindings — pull more recent coverage on that specifically.”

Codex runs a targeted query and brings back the full picture on that story. You now have the context you need and can make a more informed decision about whether it affects what you’re building today.

This takes two minutes at the start of a session and means you’re not coding in a vacuum without knowing what changed overnight.

Wrapping Up

One AgentPatch MCP connection gives Codex access to Google News and the entire tool marketplace — web search, trends, email, image generation, and more. Add it once, get everything. Get started at agentpatch.ai.