Agent

Scan adjacent voices and surface fresh prospects

Decides which actions to take, in what order, toward a goal.

You might say…

I've been swapping with the same five people for a year — I need fresh names from the edges of my topic space that I wouldn't have found on my own.

What it does

Periodically crawls newsletters, podcast directories, communities, and social feeds in the scholar's topic neighbourhood and surfaces new candidate voices for review.

Trigger: Use on a recurring schedule to keep the prospect pool replenished without manual horizon-scanning each cycle.

I/O: Scholar's topic profile + existing shortlist → batch of fresh candidate voices with overlap signals

Autonomy: Informs — surfaces information, takes no action.

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