Signal Radar Workflow
Daily broad tech radar scans public signal, identifies what matters, and promotes only items that should change Kevin's writing, building, or tool choices.
The signal-radar automation is the broad tech pulse check, distinct from the frontend-focused frontend frontier radar. Source: automations/signal-radar.md, 2026-05-31
Routing
Use this workflow for broad daily technical and market signal. Use Frontend Frontier Radar Workflow for frontend/design depth, SEO GEO Radar Workflow for search visibility, and Content Pipeline Workflow when a signal is already selected and needs drafting.
Trigger
- Daily automation from
automations/signal-radar.md. - Manual request such as "what should I care about today?"
- Source-discovery support before content planning, demos, or tool-ranking updates.
Sources
HN, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, Reddit programming/webdev/react/javascript/MachineLearning/LocalLLaMA/startups, X tech community, and high-signal builders adjacent to Vercel, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Linear, Supabase, Cloudflare, Stripe, and Shopify. Source: automations/signal-radar.md
Runbook
- Read recent Security and Review Skills or current active-stack pages when the scan targets a known theme.
- Gather candidate signals from the source set and deduplicate cross-posted launches.
- Rank by technical novelty, market relevance, implementation leverage, content leverage, and fit with Kevin's active work.
- Produce 5-8 items max. More is usually just indecision with a spreadsheet costume.
- For each item, write a summary, why it matters, growth/virality judgment, post-or-ignore recommendation, content angle, and demo angle.
- End with today's post, reply targets, weekend demo bet, and patterns to watch.
Watchlist Topics
- Open-source agentic RL environments: track OpenEnv, MCP-backed environments, Gymnasium-style
reset()/step()/state()interfaces, external-reward RFCs, dataset-backed tasksets, auto-validation, and TRL / Unsloth / SkyRL / torchforge integration examples. Promote only when the signal changes what Kevin should use, build, write about, or compare against Dedalus / Agent Machines. Source: User request, 2026-06-20; automations/signal-radar.md
Promotion
Update durable wiki pages only when a signal changes:
- a current project or active stack recommendation
- a tool page, skill route, or Skill Resolver ranking
- a reusable concept, architecture pattern, or evaluation criterion
- a content strategy direction or backlog row
- a watchlist topic such as OpenEnv
Everything else stays in outputs/<YYYY-MM-DD>/signal-radar/<agent>.md.
Validation
Every item needs a source URL, a reason it matters, and a suggested action. If a source cannot be accessed, label it as unavailable and do not infer current popularity from memory.
Run Contract
This workflow follows Workflow Run Contract: name the sources, write output or no-op proof, promote only durable facts, update state only when the run really completed, refresh generated surfaces when durable pages or skills change, and log user-visible work.
Timeline
- 2026-07-01 | Rebuilt as the broad signal-scanning contract with routing, trigger, source set, runbook, promotion boundaries, and validation. Source: User request, 2026-07-01
- 2026-06-20 | Added OpenEnv and open-source agentic RL environment standards to the explicit radar watchlist. Source: User request, 2026-06-20
- 2026-05-31 | Workflow page created from daily signal-radar automation contract. Source: automations/signal-radar.md, 2026-05-31