I Built a Free Daily AI News Engine Using Claude Code CLI — No API Key Needed

Every morning at 8:30am, my Mac writes four 1,200-word AI news articles — Bloomberg-style, with citations, analyst quotes, and structured headings — then commits them to GitHub and deploys to Cloudflare Pages. Total API cost: $0. Here's how I built it, and why claude --print as a subprocess is the most underrated automation trick right now. The Problem I Was Solving I run AI Agents Directory — a directory of 2,800+ AI tools across 305 categories. The site has great reference content but needed f