Building an AI News Curation Agent with n8n, Claude, and WordPress REST API

Building an AI News Curation Agent with n8n, Claude, and WordPress REST API You need fresh tech content daily, but manually curating RSS feeds, writing summaries, and publishing to WordPress eats up your mornings. Here's how to architect an AI-powered workflow in n8n that reads The Verge's RSS feed, uses Claude to select and summarize the top 5 stories, and publishes styled HTML directly to WordPress — all running on a schedule. Architecture Overview The workflow follows this data flow: 1. Schedule Trigger (8 AM daily) ↓ 2. RSS Feed Reader (fetch articles) ↓ 3. Claude AI Agent (curate + generate HTML) ↓ 4. Structured Output Parser (enforce JSON schema) ↓ 5. Code Node (prepare WordPress payload) ↓ 6. HTTP Request (POST to WordPress REST API) Why this architecture? Separating concerns keeps each node focused: RSS ingestion is isolated from AI processing, which is isolated from WordPress publishing. This modularity means you can swap The Verge for TechCrunch or Claude for GPT-4 without re