Bundle · v1.0

The Curator Bundle

The Curator Bundle is the avatar-specific layer for selection-first creators: industry digest writers, taste-forward newsletter authors, "5 things" personal curators, link aggregators and AI-assisted research digest curators. Taste is the entire value proposition. Skills handle the mechanical layer so the Curator can spend more hours doing the thing only they can do: deciding what earns a slot. Tech Digest aggregates RSS feeds, scores, deduplicates and surfaces a structured shortlist for editorial selection. Newsletter Creation and Curation produces the editorial framing, subject lines and synthesis paragraphs that make a curated list land with credibility. Sits on top of the Foundational Creator Bundle.

Install

One-line install (macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash)

curl -sSL https://www.infinitegameos.io/bundles/the-curator/install.sh | bash

Idempotent. Safe to re-run. Edits Claude Code ~/.claude/settings.json in place to register two marketplaces and enable six plugins. Restart Claude Code after install.

Inspect the install script first

curl -sSL https://www.infinitegameos.io/bundles/the-curator/install.sh

Direct markdown URL (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Aider)

https://www.infinitegameos.io/markdown/bundles/the-curator

What's inside

github.com/camilleroux/tech-digest · MIT

Tech Digest

RSS aggregation engine designed for digest curators. Pulls from configurable feed lists, filters by score, deduplicates overlapping stories, groups by day and surfaces a structured shortlist ready for editorial selection. Pure Python stdlib, zero dependencies. Ships with developer-niche defaults (Hacker News, Lobste.rs); the YAML feed list is fully swappable for any niche. Invoke with /digest 7 for a weekly recap or /digest 3 for a tighter window. The intake engine of the bundle.

github.com/BrianRWagner/ai-marketing-claude-code-skills · MIT

Newsletter Creation and Curation

Editorial production layer. Industry-adaptive newsletter creation with stage, role and geography-aware workflows. Handles the one or two sentences per item that explain why each piece matters, the synthesis paragraph that ties an issue together and the subject lines that make the email worth opening. Pairs cleanly with Tech Digest above: aggregation upstream, editorial production downstream. Together they cover the Curator's full weekly loop from raw feed to send-ready copy.

Definition

The Curator Bundle is the avatar-specific stack for selection-first creators working with Claude Code in 2026. The Foundational Creator Bundle (Researcher, Plan Challenger, Source Harvest, Skill Creator, Systematic Debugging plus Content Strategy and AI SEO) is the assumed pre-install. The Curator layer adds two installable skills. Tech Digest (Camille Roux, MIT) handles RSS intake, scoring, dedup and structured shortlist surfacing. Newsletter Creation and Curation (Brian R Wagner, MIT) handles editorial production, synthesis framing and subject-line authoring. For the Curator, Source Harvest from the Foundational substrate plays a more central role than in any other avatar bundle: the Curator's long-term asset is the source map, not the issues. Researcher handles the deeper context-gathering when an issue calls for analytical synthesis rather than just link-plus-sentence framing. Skill Creator lets the Curator encode their selection criteria into custom skills for repeatable quality. Taste is the entire value proposition. Every resource in the bundle either protects taste, extends taste or frees up time to use taste.

Pre-install: the Foundational Creator Bundle

The Curator Bundle assumes the Foundational Creator Bundle is already present. The Foundational Bundle is the universal substrate: Researcher for deeper context behind a curated item, Plan Challenger for adversarial review of the issue plan or the editorial direction, Source Harvest for building and maintaining the curated source map, Skill Creator for codifying selection criteria into reusable infrastructure, Systematic Debugging for when the multi-tool pipeline breaks, plus Content Strategy and AI SEO for cadence and discoverability. Curators need all seven. Installing them once at the substrate level is enough.

If the Foundational Bundle is not yet installed, install it first at /bundles/foundational-creator. The Curator Bundle install script in this page does not bring those skills again.

What the install brings

The install script does two things. First, it clones the Tech Digest repository and copies the digest skill files into the Claude Code skills directory at ~/.claude/skills/tech-digest/. Second, it clones the ai-marketing-claude-code-skills repository and copies the newsletter-creation-curation directory into ~/.claude/skills/newsletter-creation-curation/. Both halves are idempotent. Re-running is safe. The script writes a timestamped backup of any existing skills directory before overwriting.

After install, restart Claude Code. /digest becomes available for any feed list configured in the YAML. The newsletter creation skill activates when the work calls for editorial framing, subject-line authoring or stage-aware sequence design.

A note on the Content Research Writer skill: an additional skill named in the Curator avatar research (ComposioHQ's content-research-writer) is omitted from this v1 install pending license confirmation on the upstream repo. The eight-step research-to-draft model it covers (topic understanding, collaborative outlining, source research, hook improvement, section feedback, voice preservation, citation management, final polish) is queued for a Kingdom-native rebuild in v1.1. Curators who write deeper analytical synthesis can reach for the Foundational substrate's Researcher in the meantime.

How the two skills compose

Tech Digest runs at intake. Configure the feed list once. Run /digest 7 every Monday or /digest 3 for a tighter window. The skill returns a scored, deduplicated shortlist of items grouped by day. The Curator still makes every final call, but they arrive at that decision with a pre-sorted set of candidates instead of 200 raw items. The score-based filtering and the deduplication are the differentiators over a generic RSS reader.

Newsletter Creation and Curation runs at production. Once the items are selected, the skill handles the editorial layer: the one or two sentences per item that explain why each one matters, the synthesis paragraph that ties the issue together, the subject line that earns the open. Stage-aware workflows let the same engine produce a B2B industry digest, a consumer taste-forward newsletter or a "5 things" personal recommendation list with the appropriate voice register for each.

The Foundational layer surrounds the two. Source Harvest is the proprietary source-map builder. Most curators discover good feeds accidentally and lose track of them just as fast; Source Harvest makes source-building deliberate. Researcher is the depth-pass for items that warrant analytical framing rather than a quick blurb. Plan Challenger reviews the issue plan when something feels off and the Curator wants a structural read before sending. Skill Creator lets the Curator encode their selection criteria as a custom skill, turning a felt sense into a repeatable quality bar. Systematic Debugging applies when the multi-tool pipeline produces unexpected output. Together with the Curator layer, the practice covers intake, triage, framing, production, source-mapping, depth-research, plan-review and debug under one roof.

Use Cases

Industry digest curator publishing weekly

A weekly industry digest writer opens the curation session Tuesday morning. Tech Digest has already aggregated the week's feeds and surfaced a scored shortlist. Source Harvest flags two new high-quality feeds added to the source map. The Curator triages the shortlist down to six items. Newsletter Creation and Curation generates the editorial framing per item plus a synthesis paragraph for the issue. Researcher handles a deeper contextual note on the headline item that warrants more than a sentence. The issue ships Wednesday morning with the structural production work compressed and the editorial judgment intact.

Taste-forward lifestyle curator across design and culture

A lifestyle curator covering design, food, travel and culture runs Source Harvest monthly to vet the existing source map and surface new feeds. Tech Digest aggregates the cross-domain feed list and surfaces what earned a slot this week. The aesthetic eye stays human. Newsletter Creation and Curation handles the editorial framing in the curator's established register. The publication that takes a single curator three days to produce by hand becomes a one-day process without smoothing the voice.

"5 Things" personal curator running a low-overhead daily list

A personal recommendation curator publishing six items a week runs Tech Digest with a tightly scoped feed list (15-20 trusted sources). Daily intake takes minutes. Newsletter Creation and Curation handles the brief personal voice for each recommendation. The format that started as a low-overhead labor of love stays low-overhead even as the audience grows.

AI-assisted research digest curator

An AI-assisted research digest curator uses Tech Digest for deterministic intake and classification across an academic, practitioner and popular feed mix. Researcher dispatches parallel sub-agents to gather context on the highest-priority items. The Curator stays in control of final selection and voice. Newsletter Creation and Curation handles synthesis. The machine handles the mechanical layer; the taste stays human.

Niche recommendation engine for a tight audience

A niche recommendation curator running a Wirecutter-style format for a specific audience (knife collectors, indie game developers, herbalists) maintains the source map via Source Harvest and runs the weekly aggregation pass via Tech Digest. The recommendations themselves stay personal and voice-forward. Newsletter Creation and Curation handles the framing layer that makes each recommendation feel considered rather than generated.

FAQ

Does the Curator Bundle include the Foundational Creator Bundle?

No. The Curator Bundle assumes the Foundational Bundle is already installed. Install /bundles/foundational-creator first if you have not already. The two-layer architecture means the medium-specific skills (Tech Digest, Newsletter Creation and Curation) install once on top of the universal substrate.

I am not a developer. Will Tech Digest still work for my niche?

Yes. Tech Digest ships with developer-niche feeds (Hacker News, Lobste.rs) as defaults but the YAML feed list is fully swappable. Replace the default sources with your niche feeds (design publications, climate tech outlets, food media, finance newsletters and so on) and the skill works identically. The first configuration step is editing the feed list to match your beat. The skill is feed-list-driven, not topic-locked.

Why is Content Research Writer not in the install script?

The ComposioHQ content-research-writer skill named in the Curator avatar research is omitted from v1 pending license confirmation on the upstream repository. The eight-capability research-to-draft model it covers is queued for a Kingdom-native rebuild in v1.1. In the meantime, the Foundational substrate's Researcher handles the deeper analytical context that this skill would otherwise cover.

How is Tech Digest different from a regular RSS reader?

Tech Digest scores items and deduplicates overlapping stories before surfacing them. A regular RSS reader hands you 200 items in chronological order. Tech Digest hands you a scored shortlist already grouped and deduplicated, ready for editorial selection. The selection layer stays human; the triage layer becomes machine-assisted.

What does the install script actually change on my system?

It clones github.com/camilleroux/tech-digest into a temp directory and copies the contents of skills/digest/ to ~/.claude/skills/tech-digest/. It clones github.com/BrianRWagner/ai-marketing-claude-code-skills into a temp directory and copies the newsletter-creation-curation directory to ~/.claude/skills/newsletter-creation-curation/. It writes a timestamped backup of any existing files in those skills directories before overwriting. It does not touch settings.json. No system-level changes happen outside ~/.claude.

Is the install reversible?

Yes. To remove Tech Digest, delete ~/.claude/skills/tech-digest. To remove Newsletter Creation and Curation, delete ~/.claude/skills/newsletter-creation-curation. The Foundational Bundle is unaffected by either rollback.

How does the Curator Bundle relate to the other avatar bundles?

Same two-layer pattern across every avatar bundle. The Foundational Bundle is the substrate. The Builder, Writer, Performer, Teacher, Curator and Strategist bundles each ship a small medium-specific layer on top. A creator who works as both a Curator and a Writer installs the Foundational Bundle once plus both avatar bundles. No skill duplication.

Related

The Curator Bundle is one avatar-specific layer in a wider system. The substrate it sits on top of is the Foundational Creator Bundle. The design frame for the longer arc, where taste compounds into a relationship at scale across years of issues, is the Sovereign Life Playbook.

See the Sovereign Life Playbook