In this article, we will learn to get News updates on any topic automatically posted to your Discord channel using Supercog.

Supercog is an advanced AI platform that transforms productivity by connecting directly to your business systems and automating tasks. It enables real-time data analysis, generates insights, and empowers teams to create customizable AI solutions tailored to their needs.

Outline

• Get your Discord Channel Webhook URL
• Sign up on Supercog
• Create an agent
• Add Tools
• Customize the Agent Instructions
• Enter Query
• Conclusion

You can watch the video tutorial:

Get your Discord Channel Webhook URL

First, you'll need to create a webhook for the specific channel you want to post to.

In Discord:

• Go to the channel settings (Edit Channel) :

• Click on "Integrations"

• Create "New Webhook" or use the existing webhook

• Copy the webhook URL

Sign up on Supercog

Go to Supercog https://app.supercog.ai/register/ and register:

Create an agent

Agents are systems that use LLMs as reasoning engines to determine which actions to take and the inputs to pass them.

Click the Morning News Report agent tab to start chatting quickly or Create a New Agent for the task you want to accomplish. Click on the Morning News Report agent for this article.

Add Tools

Tools extend the agent's capabilities by allowing it to perform specific actions, like accessing an external database, etc

We already have most of the tools we need to get News updates in the Morning News Report agent. We are using Tavily Web Search and Web Browsing (Scale SERP) to perform searches and get the News. Text to Speech tool to transform text into high-quality, real-time speech with minimal latency.

We are going to add Discord Tool to be able to send the News to your Discord channel.
Add Discord Tool

• Click on the Add Tool button

• Click the Connectors dropdown

• Scroll down to the Discord tool

• Click on the "+" button to add the Discord tool. You will see the New Connection: Discord modal. Enter the Discord Webhook URL you created earlier then click Save:

Customize the Agent Instructions

If you want, you can customize the agent instructions to fit your needs. In my case, I will leave it as is since I want to get news about AI.

Enter Query

You can now enter your query to get the News update on any topic and post to your Discord channel. Go to the chat input box and enter your query.

For me, I entered the following text:

and I got the following output:

I can then enter the following text in the chatbox to send the News update to my discord channel:

And I get the following output in my discord channel:

Awesome🎉

Conclusion

You can easily do the following and more using Supercog:

Integrate seamlessly with various business systems and popular SaaS applications
help to automate repetitive tasks
Do advanced data analysis
report generation
file data processing etc