How do operators run a newsletter with agents?
These teardowns are tagged newsletter. Their summaries describe an agent drafting or scheduling a broadcast, notes, a welcome, a recap or personal drafts, or running the newsletter operation.
- 44 Subscriber Tags, None Set by Hand: How Adam Schoenfeld runs newsletter audience ops with coding agents and beehiiv
Adam Schoenfeld uses Codex and Claude Code with beehiiv's API and MCP to enrich and segment about 20K newsletter subscribers and prepare personal Gmail drafts he sends himself. His agents built 22 custom fields and 44 subscriber tags, none configured by hand.
- 45 Minutes of Prose: How Yuri Kruman Cut Newsletter Cost Without Ghostwriting
Yuri Kruman built The Leverage Brief Newsletter OS so issue 7 costs about 45 minutes of prose, not 4-6 hours. A voice-lint hard-fails em dashes and banned AI phrases. One approve click schedules beehiiv, LinkedIn, a Substack mirror and five tweets.
- 6,662 Subscribers: How Lucas Walter runs his Spokane local newsletter with four AI agents in Paperclip
Lucas Walter runs Spokane Pulse, a local newsletter with 6,662 subscribers on his Beehiiv dashboard, with four Claude Code agents in Paperclip: a CEO, content director, sales director and growth engineer. He says it made over $2,000 last month.
- 9 Repos: How Jon Phillips turns a week of commits into a weekly recap post with Claude Code and GitHub Actions
Jon Phillips has GitHub Actions read the week's commits from nine of his own repositories every Friday. Claude interviews him for about ten minutes, drafts the recap as a pull request, and merging it schedules the post for Saturday.
- 17.9%: How Yana G.Y. turned the welcome email behind her paid upgrades into a Claude skill
Yana G.Y. says 17.9% of last month's new paid members upgraded from her welcome email. She turned that formula into a Claude skill that interviews you in three rounds and writes up to four welcome emails.
- How Lucija Tomšić drafts 35 Substack notes a week with 8 agents for about $8 a month
Eight agents research, plan and draft 35 Substack notes every Wednesday for about $8 a month. She edits and approves each one.
- How Wyndo runs a newsletter from inside Claude Code
Context files, skills, commands, MCP connections and CLI tools: about 80% of the newsletter operation now runs through Claude Code.
- How Sid Bharath turned his weekly Kit newsletter into a Claude Code skill
A /newsletter skill reads his content index, drafts the week's email in his voice and creates the Kit broadcast once he approves.
- How Nathan Barry got 65 beta readers into Kit and emailed them from one Claude conversation
65 beta readers stuck in a tool with no export: Claude cleaned the list, added them to Kit with a tag and drafted the email. He confirmed the send.
- How Jordan Crawford runs his Substack from Claude Code
Session hooks feed a topic queue, sub-skills draft, and a custom publisher ships posts with images.
- How Keanan Koppenhaver automates newsletter broadcasts with a Claude Code skill
A Claude Code skill schedules each Kit broadcast, skips onboarding subscribers and has a dry-run mode.