It's Already Priced.

Crypto security and markets for people who already know how this ends.

A fully automated, self-publishing crypto security publication. It scrapes, writes, publishes, and posts to X — no manual steps required. Security-led, markets-aware.

Live site: https://bizzal70.github.io/itsalreadypriced
X: @ItsAlreadyPrice

Sister site to It's Already When. (cyber) and It's Already Written. (TTRPG).

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Three sections, three cadences

Section	Cadence	What it is
Issues	Weekly, Sunday 10am MT	Long-form digest: exploits, hacks, market events, on-chain analysis, the week's verdict
Field Notes	Daily	Short entries on one exploit, on-chain event, or security habit from the last 24 hours
RTFM	Weekly, Wednesday	Evergreen technical deep dives: key management, wallet security, DeFi mechanics

Each section has its own index page and RSS feed.

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How it works

Daily scrape              Daily Field Note          Sunday 10 AM MT          Wednesday
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10 RSS feeds              Last 24h articles          Week's articles          Next unused topic
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  scraper.py              field_note.py              digest.py                  rtfm.py
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 articles.db              _field_notes/ post          _posts/ issue            _rtfm/ post
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                                └─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
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                                              deploy.yml → GitHub Pages
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                                          X card thumbnail generated (Pillow)
                                          dollar figures extracted from summary
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                                                  Tweet posted to X

Everything runs on GitHub Actions. No local machine, server, or cron required.

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Workflows

Workflow	Schedule	What it does
daily-scrape.yml	Daily	Pulls 10 RSS feeds; deduplicates; caches to articles.db
daily-field-note.yml	Daily	Generates Field Note from last 24h articles; pushes; triggers tweet
weekly-issue.yml	Sunday 10am MT	Catches up missed articles; generates Issue with Claude; pushes; tweets with card
weekly-rtfm.yml	Wednesday	Picks next RTFM topic; generates article; pushes; tweets
tweet-on-publish.yml	On push to _posts/, _field_notes/, _rtfm/	Waits for page live (200 OK), then posts tweet with generated thumbnail card
deploy.yml	On every push to main	Builds + deploys Jekyll site to GitHub Pages
set-avatar.yml	Manual	Updates X account avatar

All scheduled workflows support workflow_dispatch for manual runs.

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RSS sources

10 feeds across security, crypto news, DeFi, and community signal:

Feed	Category
Cointelegraph Hacks	Incident (primary security spine)
The Hacker News	Security
Bleeping Computer	Security
Chainalysis Blog	Research
The Block	News
CoinDesk	News
Cointelegraph	News
Decrypt	News
The Defiant	DeFi
r/CryptoCurrency	Community signal

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Scraper components

File	Purpose
scraper/feeds.py	RSS source list (10 feeds, categorized)
scraper/scraper.py	Pulls feeds, deduplicates by URL hash, caches to articles.db
scraper/digest.py	Generates weekly Issue from this week's articles via Claude API
scraper/field_note.py	Generates daily Field Note from last 24h articles
scraper/note_quality.py	Deterministic editorial substance floor for Field Notes: asserts word count / structure / concrete specifics. A thin note is regenerated once (stricter), then skipped
scraper/set_avatar.py	One-shot utility to update the X account avatar (run via set-avatar.yml)
scraper/rtfm.py	Picks next unused topic from rtfm_topics.yml; generates evergreen RTFM article
scraper/resources.py	Builds deterministic block-explorer and incident-tracker links from token/tx IDs — never LLM-generated URLs
scraper/x_thumbnail.py	Generates 1200×675 X card image (Pillow): dark terminal-green theme, dollar figures from summary extracted and shown in right column
scraper/tweet_on_publish.py	Posts tweet with thumbnail when new post is detected; waits for page live first

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Content rules

• Headline-first titles — the generator asks the model for a HEADLINE: line and promotes it to the post title; the Issue #NNN · Week of … label drops to a kicker line above the body. The title slot does click-work instead of filing the post. Falls back to the summary, then the old label, if no headline comes back
• Every post closes with a follow CTA — weekly Issues and daily Field Notes both end with a follow/subscribe line (@ItsAlreadyPrice or RSS), so a post is never a dead end
• No em dashes — a deliberate choice to avoid an obvious AI-writing tell
• No AI disclosure in post copy
• Source links are deterministic — resources.py builds block-explorer URLs from token/tx IDs directly; never hallucinated
• RTFM is not news-driven — grounded in official protocol docs and audit reports, not scraped articles
• Token pages resolve to CoinGecko — coingecko.com/en/coins/{id}, stable and verifiable

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Required secrets

Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions:

Secret	Purpose
GH_PAT	Personal access token with repo write access (used for committing posts)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Claude API for content generation
X_API_KEY / X_API_SECRET	X app consumer keys (OAuth 1.0a)
X_ACCESS_TOKEN / X_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET	X user access tokens

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Site structure

_posts/           Weekly Issues
_field_notes/     Daily Field Notes (Jekyll collection)
_rtfm/            Evergreen RTFM articles (Jekyll collection)
_layouts/         Jekyll templates
assets/           CSS, theme (trading-terminal green/gold)
scraper/          All automation scripts
.github/workflows/ GitHub Actions workflows

Issue numbers tracked in scraper/issue_number.txt, incremented on each Issue run.

License

• Code (generators, workflows, templates, config): MIT
• Written content (posts, articles, field notes): CC BY-NC 4.0 — attribution required, non-commercial reuse only.