By Cathy Sarisky, Ghost Expert in From Cathy's desk — Oct 5, 2026

🎉Introducing "What did you break this week?"

An AI-generated rundown of the things that are going to have me patching integrations at 10pm on a Friday.

I've had just enough times that something rolled out to live on Ghost that broke things. Sometimes it's self-hosters only. Sometimes it's a custom integration. In any case, this AI-generated rundown of what's going on in the Ghost repo is meant to flag those things, and be faster than manually scanning for new PRs. Maybe.

100% AI unless it occurs to me to edit something, comes out Thursday mornings. Might be useful, might not. No promises. It's a big experiment.

I back-generated a couple weeks while testing, so you can get some sense of what it'll look like. FWIW, it would have flagged the reason I was patching integrations this Friday at 9pm.

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I back-generated a couple weeks while testing, so you can get some sense of what it'll look like. FWIW, it would have flagged the reason I was patching integrations last Friday.

Tidbits from development, for anyone curious:

I've got the AI ignoring non-organization PRs until merged. I think that's a good tradeoff between not missing something likely to merge next week but not getting swamped by dozens of community contributions that are likely on a long timeline – if ever.

I'm running a non-AI filter step for paths that are likely to create problems with integrations, then a triage step with Haiku (title, description, file list), then a deep read with Opus on an allow-listed diff (see below), returning structured findings that feed the newsletter render, plus an AI-generated intro paragraph, value unclear. A Ghost helper prepends and appends boilerplate text to each one, with the idea that eventually this thing could ship unattended, although I'll be looking at drafts for a few weeks first.

I spent most of my dev time trying to get the output down to a manageable size. I want enough there that you can look at it and say "oh, that's a problem", but not so much that it's a big wall of text and you can't find the problems. It's still long, but I'm hoping that the important bits pop to the top, at least.