Building Skeptik: A Zero-Editorial Autonomous Newsroom With Agno, Featherless, Tavily, Bright Data, and Virlo

Skeptik started from a simple product constraint: do not build another AI news summarizer. The brief demanded something harder and more interesting: serious articles a fully autonomous editorial path clear transparency into how each story was generated strong use of Virlo for story ranking and urgency So the product had to behave less like “chat over links” and more like a newsroom system with policy, skepticism, and publication gates. This post walks through the architecture, key code paths, design choices, and the failure modes we had to account for without hiding them behind fake content. The Product Goal The target experience was: Readers land on a newsroom front page They see a lead story that feels publishable They understand why this story is rising now They can inspect the agentic reporting chain They can trust that stories were challenged before publication That shaped both the backend and the frontend. Architecture Why These Technologies Agno Agno provides a clean mental mode