Scheduled Research Automation

Keeping up with a fast-moving technical field means somebody reads through sources and summarises them, repeatedly, at a fixed time every day. It is low-value work that competes directly with actual work, and it stops entirely when the person is away.

A scheduled n8n workflow that runs research through a model API, composes the briefing, and delivers it through a mail integration on a daily trigger. Credentials are held in the automation platform’s own credential store rather than in the repository, and the repository ships both a manual-trigger version for testing and a production scheduled version, alongside validation that runs on every push.

• Scheduled daily execution plus a separate manual-trigger workflow for testing
• Research performed through a model API integration
• Briefing composition and email delivery through a mail integration
• Credentials held in the platform credential store rather than committed to the repository
• Version-control sync scripts for Windows and Unix-like systems
• Continuous integration that validates workflow JSON, verifies repository structure and scans for accidentally committed credentials
• A reusable internal library of documented n8n patterns covering JavaScript and Python nodes, expression syntax, node configuration, validation and workflow architecture
• Planning documents for workflow design

• Nothing runs on its own: it requires a hosted or self-hosted n8n instance plus credentials for the model API and the mail account. It is an automation design, not a service anyone can sign up to.
• No released version and no packaged download — the workflows are imported into an existing n8n instance.
• No automated test suite; validation is limited to JSON syntax and structural checks.
• The repository describes itself as open source, but no licence file is published, so it is not licensed for reuse. This site therefore does not describe it as open source.
• The subject matter it researches ages quickly, which makes it more useful as a demonstration of automation capability than as a product.

• n8n
• OpenRouter
• Gmail API
• GitHub Actions
• PowerShell