Podcast Discovery Adapter (Phase 2)

[bradygaster]

Overview

Implement podcast discovery via curated RSS feed list to capture industry narrative, thought leadership, and Aspire mentions in .NET podcast ecosystem. Provides long-form discussion signals missing from text-based sources.

Background

Per gap analysis:

• Current blind spot: Industry narrative at 20% completeness
• Podcast value: 5-15 episodes/month with Aspire mentions, high-quality thought leadership signals
• Target podcasts: .NET Rocks, The .NET Core Show, Coding Blocks, Hanselminutes, etc.
• Signal types: Expert opinions, adoption stories, community sentiment, deep dives

Requirements

• Implement PodcastSourceAdapter extending SourceAdapter interface
• Use RSS parser (already installed: rss-parser) to fetch podcast feeds
• Curated feed list (hardcoded or config file): .NET Rocks, The .NET Core Show, Coding Blocks, Hanselminutes, The 6 Figure Developer, etc.
• Filter episodes by keyword in title/description: "aspire", "dotnet aspire", ".net aspire"
• Extract: episode title, podcast name, URL, publish date, description, duration, audio URL
• Map to ContentItem type with channel="podcast:{podcastName}", source="podcast"
• Add metadata: { duration: string, audioUrl: string, keywords: string[] }\
• Optional future enhancement: Podchaser API integration for search/discovery (requires API key)
• Handle malformed RSS feeds gracefully (skip invalid entries, log warning)

Squad SDK Integration

• Adapter registration: Auto-discovered by SourceRegistry
• Validation logic: PodcastSourceAdapter.validate() returns true (no env vars needed for RSS)
• Configuration: Hardcoded podcast feed list in adapter (easy to extend)

Acceptance Criteria

• AC1: Adapter discovers 2+ Aspire-related podcast episodes per run (if available)
• AC2: Each episode maps to ContentItem with: id, title, url, author (podcast name), publishedAt, duration, audioUrl
• AC3: Episodes appear in reports with channel="podcast:{podcastName}"
• AC4: Keyword filtering reduces false positives (only episodes mentioning Aspire in title/description)
• AC5: If an RSS feed is unreachable, adapter logs warning and continues with remaining feeds
• AC6: Duplicate episodes detected (same audio URL or episode URL = same canonical hash)

Dependencies

Depends on: Issue #1 (Architecture Refactor)

Assigned To

• Kima (Content scout, podcast ecosystem knowledge)

Estimated Effort

1 session

• Implement PodcastSourceAdapter with curated feed list
• Test keyword filtering accuracy
• Validate RSS parsing for all target podcasts

[github-actions]

🏗️ Squad Triage — Freamon (Lead / Editor-in-Chief)

Issue: #3 — Podcast Discovery Adapter (Phase 2)
Assigned to: Freamon (Lead / Editor-in-Chief)
Reason: No specific domain match — assigned to Lead for further analysis

@copilot evaluation: 🔴 Not suitable — issue involves work outside the coding agent's capability profile.

Team roster:

• Freamon (Lead / Editor-in-Chief) → label: squad:freamon
• McNulty (TypeScript Implementer) → label: squad:mcnulty
• Kima (Source Scout (Content)) → label: squad:kima
• Bunk (Source Scout (Community)) → label: squad:bunk
• Omar (Signal Analyst) → label: squad:omar
• Bubbles (Taxonomy + Dedupe Librarian) → label: squad:bubbles
• Daniels (Copilot SDK Specialist) → label: squad:daniels
• Stringer (Squad SDK Orchestrator) → label: squad:stringer
• Ralph (Work Monitor) → label: squad:ralph
• @copilot (Coding Agent) → label: squad:copilot

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Reason: No domain match — routed to Lead

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🔄 Ralph — Auto-Triage

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🔄 Ralph — Auto-Triage

Assigned to: Freamon (Lead / Editor-in-Chief)
Reason: No domain match — routed to Lead

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