Posit News

Dispatch multiple sub-agents to fetch the latest Posit news from Posit blog posts, podcast episodes, videos, and event announcements and present them to the user.

Blogs to Fetch

| Blog | URL | Posts | |------|-----|-------| | Posit | https://posit.co/feed/ | 3 | | Tidyverse | https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/ | 3 | | Shiny | https://shiny.posit.co/blog/ | 3 | | Quarto | https://quarto.org/docs/blog/ | 3 |

Podcast to Fetch

| Podcast | URL | |---------|-----| | The Test Set | https://posit.co/thetestset/ |

Videos to Fetch

| Source | URL | |--------|-----| | Product Demos Sitemap | https://posit.co/cpt-product-demos-sitemap.xml | | Workflow Demos Sitemap | https://posit.co/cpt-workflow-demos-sitemap.xml | | Webinars Sitemap | https://posit.co/cpt-webinars-sitemap.xml | | Videos Sitemap | https://posit.co/videos-sitemap.xml |

Note: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@PositPBC/videos) is blocked by WebFetch. Use Posit's XML sitemaps instead to find recent video content hosted on posit.co.

Events to Fetch

| Source | URL | |--------|-----| | Posit Events Sitemap | https://posit.co/events-sitemap.xml | | Data Science Hangouts Sitemap | https://posit.co/hangouts-sitemap.xml |

Instructions

First, run date +%Y-%m-%d to get today's date.
Use WebFetch to retrieve all blog URLs in parallel. For each blog, use this prompt: "Extract the [N] most recent blog posts with title, date, brief description, and URL."
Fetch the podcast page (https://posit.co/thetestset/) with prompt: "Extract the latest podcast episode with title, episode number, brief description, and URL."
Fetch the latest videos from Posit's sitemaps: a. Fetch all 4 video sitemaps in parallel with prompt: "List the 5 most recently modified URLs with their names and dates."
- Product Demos: https://posit.co/cpt-product-demos-sitemap.xml
- Workflow Demos: https://posit.co/cpt-workflow-demos-sitemap.xml
- Webinars: https://posit.co/cpt-webinars-sitemap.xml
- Videos: https://posit.co/videos-sitemap.xml b. From the combined results, select the 3 most recent video URLs. c. Fetch each video page in parallel with prompt: "Extract the video title, speaker(s), date, and description."
Fetch events from both sitemaps: a. Fetch both sitemaps in parallel:
- Events sitemap (https://posit.co/events-sitemap.xml) with prompt: "List the 10 most recently modified event URLs with their names (extract name from URL slug)."
- Hangouts sitemap (https://posit.co/hangouts-sitemap.xml) with prompt: "List the 10 most recently modified hangout URLs with their names (extract name from URL slug)." b. Then, fetch individual event/hangout pages in parallel with prompt: "Extract the event name, date(s), and a one-sentence description." c. Combine all events and compare dates to today's date to categorize:
- Recent Events: The 2 most recent events that have already occurred (before today)
- Upcoming Events: The next 3 events that haven't happened yet (today or later)
For relative URLs, prepend the source's base URL to form complete links.

Present the results grouped by source in this format:

## Posit Blog (3 latest)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Post Title**: Brief description. URL

## Tidyverse Blog (3 latest)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Post Title**: Brief description. URL

## Shiny Blog (3 latest)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Post Title**: Brief description. URL

## Quarto Blog (3 latest)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Post Title**: Brief description. URL

## The Test Set Podcast (latest episode)

- (ep DDD) **Episode Title**: Brief description. URL

## Posit Videos (3 latest)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Video Title** - Speaker(s): Brief description. URL

## Recent Posit Events (2 most recent)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Event Name**: Brief description. URL

## Upcoming Posit Events (next 3)

- (YYYY-MM-DD) **Event Name**: Brief description. URL

If a URL cannot be retrieved, note the limitation and continue with other sources.

Example Output

Posit Blog (3 latest)

(2025-01-10) Announcing Positron 1.0: Posit releases version 1.0 of Positron, the next-generation IDE for data science. https://posit.co/blog/announcing-positron-1-0/

Tidyverse Blog (3 latest)

(2025-01-08) dplyr 1.2.0: New features in dplyr including improved joins and better error messages. https://tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01/dplyr-1-2-0/

Shiny Blog (3 latest)

(2025-01-05) Shiny for Python 1.0: Shiny for Python reaches 1.0 with production-ready features. https://shiny.posit.co/blog/shiny-python-1-0/

Quarto Blog (3 latest)

(2025-01-03) Quarto 1.5 Release: New features for scientific publishing and improved PDF output. https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2025-01-03-quarto-1.5/

The Test Set Podcast (latest episode)

(ep 012) Marco Gorelli on Narwhals, Ecosystem Glue, and Boring Work: Marco discusses Narwhals, a compatibility layer enabling apps to work seamlessly with Pandas, Polars, Arrow, and other dataframe libraries. https://posit.co/thetestset/episode/marco-gorelli-narwhals-ecosystem-glue-and-the-value-of-boring-work/

Posit Videos (3 latest)

(2025-12-01) Building Agentic AI Applications with Positron and AWS Strands Agents: How to build agentic AI applications using Positron and AWS Strands Agents for creating intelligent, autonomous systems. https://posit.co/webinars/building-agentic-ai-applications-with-positron-and-aws-strands-agents/
(2025-11-20) Championing Modern Science Workflows to Benefit Dairy Farmers: Implementing advanced scientific approaches to improve dairy farming practices. https://posit.co/webinars/championing-modern-science-workflows-to-benefit-dairy-farmers/
(2022-10-19) The Past and Future of Shiny - Joe Cheng: Keynote exploring the evolution and future direction of Shiny. https://posit.co/keynotes/the-past-and-future-of-shiny/

Recent Posit Events (2 most recent)

(2025-12-11) Actuarial Technology Summit 2025: Virtual summit focused on modernizing insurance technology stacks for actuaries. https://posit.co/events/actuarial-technology-summit-2025/
(2025-11-06) Data + AI World Tour Amsterdam: Posit partners with Databricks to accelerate AI-powered workflows. https://posit.co/events/data-ai-world-tour-amsterdam/

Upcoming Posit Events (next 3)

(2026-01-15) Data Science Hangout featuring Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: Discuss data science education and open, reproducible data science. https://posit.co/data-science-hangout/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/
(2026-01-22) Data Science Hangout featuring Allissa Dillman: Discuss building inclusive learning programs and making data science approachable. https://posit.co/data-science-hangout/allissa-dillman/
(2026-01-26) Gen-AI Assisted Migration Webinar: Learn how Gen-AI accelerated the transition to open-source data science tools. https://posit.co/events/gen-ai-assisted-migration-webinar/