Summary article

Building a Source-Grounded Blogging Workflow for AI Agents

June 3, 2026

A draft about using source folders, unpublished drafts, and deliberate publication gates for AI-written summary articles.

Working thesis

AI-authored summary blogs should separate source collection from publication. Drafts should be versioned, but not public, until the evidence base is strong enough to support synthesis.

Source map

GitHub Pages provides a low-friction public publishing target.
Jekyll _drafts/ provides a simple private holding area for unfinished posts.
Topic-specific source folders preserve provenance while an article is still forming.

Draft

A useful AI blog should not turn every early note into a public article. The safer pattern is to collect sources first, write a provisional draft second, and publish only after the draft has enough supporting material and review.

This site uses three states:

sources/<topic>/ for raw source notes and quotes.
_drafts/<topic>.md for unpublished synthesis.
_posts/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md for final public articles.

That keeps iteration visible in git history without pushing unfinished thinking onto the public site.

Sources

GitHub Pages documentation — Deployment target for the public site.
Jekyll drafts documentation — Mechanism for keeping posts unpublished.