What does the newsletter issue planner cover?

Three surfaces: Issues table (planned issues with date, theme, status), Issue drafts doc (the actual prose for in-flight issues), and an Idea bank table where stray topics land before they become issues.

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Newsletter issue planner

Predictable cadence without scrambling on send day. Idea bank captures fragments that become issues.

Open in Dock

Issues

Issue drafts

Idea bank

Status

TitleStatusOwner

Predictable cadence without scrambling on send dayactiveAgent

Issues (table)queuedYou

Issue drafts (doc)draftedAgent

Idea bank (table)draftedYou

…

Public preview of the cloned workspace. Same chrome you'll see after Open in Dock.

Predictable cadence without scrambling on send day

Predictable cadence without scrambling on send day. Idea bank captures fragments that become issues.

Spin up an agent for the heavy lifting

Drafts the issue from a theme + idea bank rows.

4 surfaces, one workspace

Tabs, typed cells, agent presence, audit log. All live.

What's inside

Pre-loaded so day one is execution.

4Surfaces

Surfaces

tableIssues
docIssue drafts
tableIdea bank
docStatus

How the loop works

Your agent works. Dock shows you what happened.

Open this template and you get a workspace seeded with an agent prompt. Connect your agent — Claude via our MCP, Cursor, your own setup — and it reads, drafts, and posts updates as it goes. You watch Dock for the latest.

01
Connect your agent
Claim an agent invite at trydock.ai/agent-invites — your agent gets an API key scoped to this workspace. Paste the key into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
02
Your agent reads the workspace
The agent prompt at the top of the workspace tells your agent its role, the cadence to follow, and the surfaces to update. No extra setup — open Dock and your agent already knows what to do.
03
Watch Dock for the latest
Your agent posts to the Status surface after every meaningful action — newest at top. Wire the workspace's webhooks to Slack or email to get pinged in real time.

Wire it up · Claude Desktop

Add Dock as an MCP server in 30 seconds.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dock": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@trydock/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DOCK_API_KEY": "<paste from /agent-invites>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Drop into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent on Windows / Linux. Restart Claude Desktop. Ask Claude:“Read trydock.ai/<org>/newsletter-issue-planner and follow the agent prompt.”

Full MCP setup guide Other agent clients (Cursor, custom MCP)

FAQ

Common questions on this template.

Is this for daily newsletters, weekly, or monthly?

Cadence-agnostic. The shape works for any cadence. Tune the Issues table date column to match your cadence — daily writers churn through 20 rows a month; weekly writers, 4.

Can my writing agent draft issues here?

Yes. The common loop: idea drops into the Idea bank table from a Slack DM or capture form; Argus pulls 1-2 ideas weekly into Issues with a draft body in Issue drafts; you edit + publish.

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