You're reading a page assembled by agents. This is those agents — the exact pipeline behind The Rogue Report, packaged so you can run your own wire by tonight.
Every media company rents its stack: the CMS, the automation platform, the AI subscription, the newsletter tool that holds your list hostage. This blueprint is the opposite bet. One folder of readable Python, a static page you can host anywhere free, and an AI step that works with whatever model you already pay for — or one running on your own machine.
Point it at any beat. Swap the sources and the one-paragraph editorial prompt, and the same pipeline runs a wire for real estate, restaurants, law, manufacturing — any niche where operators need signal and nobody's cutting through the noise.
WHAT YOU GET
The sweep agent — RSS/Atom feeds, Hacker News, GitHub trending, YouTube channels; add a source by editing one JSON file
The headline agent — provider-agnostic: Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, OpenRouter, Gemini, or local models via Ollama; one prompt controls the voice
The editor desk — local review UI; nothing publishes without a human
The front page — dark, fast, Drudge-style, one static HTML file
Field Report pages — long-form article template for original reporting
The newsletter renderer — paste-ready Markdown for Buttondown/ConvertKit/Beehiiv
One-command deploy — ./rogue deploy pushes the site to Cloudflare Pages (Python-only direct upload), generated 404 included, delivery folder excluded by default
Deploy guide + single-operator commercial license
WHAT YOU NEED
A Mac or Linux machine with Python 3.9+ (macOS ships with it — no Homebrew, no Node)
Any LLM API key — or none, with a local model via Ollama
QUESTIONS
Is this a SaaS? What do I pay monthly?
Nothing. It's source code in a zip. Your only running cost is the LLM calls for headline drafting — pennies per edition — and even that goes to zero with a local model.
I'm not a developer. Can I run it?
If you can open Terminal and paste three commands, yes. The setup is unzip, ./rogue build, ./rogue wire. Every customization point is a plain-text file, and the guide maps them all.
Does it only work for AI news?
No. The beat lives in two files: the source list and the editorial prompt. Change those and it's a wire for any industry.
What exactly is the license?
Single-operator commercial: run it for any sites and businesses you own, modify freely, monetize the output. Just don't resell the blueprint itself.
This is Blueprint #001 because it's the one we bet our own brand on. The page you found this on is the demo.