Your news feed, but with an off switch for the noise

What it does

ClawFeed ingests sources—Twitter feeds, RSS, Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub Trending, even arbitrary websites—and generates structured summaries on a fixed cadence: every 4 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly. The output is a clean web dashboard plus shareable RSS/JSON feeds. It runs standalone via Docker or npm, or drops into OpenClaw and Zylos as a skill.

The interesting bit

The “Source Packs” feature lets users bundle and share curated source collections, which turns the tool into something closer to a community-curated newsletter platform than a personal reader. Also notable: it uses SQLite as the default store, which keeps deployment friction low, and the README documents a full Caddy reverse-proxy setup—rarely seen in hobby projects.

Key highlights

• Multi-frequency digests (4h / daily / weekly / monthly) with configurable AI prompts and curation rules via markdown templates
• 9 source types including Twitter lists, subreddits, GitHub trending, and custom JSON APIs
• Per-user RSS and JSON Feed output, so others can subscribe to your digest
• Google OAuth multi-user support; runs read-only without it
• 66 E2E tests included in the repo

Caveats

• The README mentions “AI-powered” throughout but never names the model, API, or cost structure—whether it calls OpenAI, runs local LLMs, or something else is unclear
• “Smart curation” and “feed quality analysis” are described as features, but the actual mechanics (ML classifier? heuristic rules? prompt-based filtering?) are not specified
• Twitter/X integration may face stability issues given the platform’s API volatility, though this is not acknowledged in the docs

Verdict

Worth a look if you want a self-hosted alternative to Briefing or Mailbrew with more source flexibility. Skip it if you need transparency about the AI backend or are looking for a managed SaaS with predictable pricing.