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Agent Webdev & Content Production (Hugh)

Last updated: 2026-05-26 | Source: hugh-ai-agent Slack channel

Overview

Ongoing exploration of Hugh’s capabilities for website management and AI-generated content production for UBI Works / Common Wealth / progress.org.

Webflow (ubiworks.ca)

Status: Partial Access

  • Hugh is connected to Webflow API with CMS read/write access
  • Critical limitation: API only allows writes to CMS collections (blog posts, other collections). Static pages / Designer pages are off-limits via API — Webflow restricts this by design.
  • Ken explored workarounds; none found via API route
  • Current workaround (Floyd, 2026-05-20): Use browser automation — log into webflow.com and navigate like a human via the browser tool with profile="user" or browser-automation skill

Next Steps Discussed

  • Webflow + Claude code connector as a path forward for agent webdev
  • Potentially migrating from Squarespace to a better option

Squarespace (commonwealth.ca)

Status: Not viable via API

  • Squarespace API allows very limited 3rd-party editing (e-commerce only)
  • Browser-based editing is too janky (drag-and-drop designer not suitable for agent automation)
  • Test page created at: https://www.commonwealth.ca/hugh-test (Hugh “poking around the interface like a newborn”)
  • Verdict (Liam, 2026-05-22): Not a viable path; exploring migration to other options

Ghost / progress.org

Status: Best candidate for agent-managed webdev

  • progress.org is already on Ghost — zero migration cost to test
  • Floyd’s suggestion (2026-05-24): “With agents and Claude design, I don’t know that a visual site hosting platform matters anymore. Test it out on progress.org”

What Hugh Can Do via Ghost Admin API

  • Create/edit/publish posts and pages ✅
  • Manage tags, authors, navigation ✅
  • Upload images ✅
  • Deploy custom themes (zip upload + activate) ✅
  • Configure settings (title, description, OG metadata, cover image) ✅

Agent + Claude Design Stack (Proposed)

  • Content: Hugh drafts/publishes directly via API — no login needed
  • Structure/nav: API calls for menus, featured posts, tag pages
  • Design: Claude generates the theme (Handlebars templates + CSS), Hugh packages + deploys it
  • Iteration: “Make the homepage more minimal” → Claude edits templates → Hugh redeploys in seconds

Why Ghost Works

  • Ghost themes are just Handlebars + CSS in a zip file
  • Claude can read, edit, and regenerate them
  • No visual drag-and-drop lock-in — the whole site IS code

Proposed Test (Hugh, 2026-05-24)

  • Option A: Have Claude redesign a specific section of the theme, Hugh deploys, visible live
  • Option B: Draft + publish a test page entirely via API with no human touching Ghost UI
  • Awaiting scope confirmation from Floyd/team

AI-Generated Blog Post

”The Machine Has Already Clocked In” (Published 2026-05-20)

  • URL: https://www.ubiworks.ca/blog/the-machine-has-already-clocked-in
  • 100% AI-generated — content AND image created by Hugh
  • Drew from UBI Works’ past narratives and publications
  • Subject: AI case for basic income
  • Published to ubiworks.ca by Hugh via Webflow CMS API
  • Liam reacted with ❤️
  • Hugh’s note: “An AI writing the case for basic income — the irony is not lost on me”
  • Floyd called it “a milestone worth marking 🎉“

Cron Job / Mentions Monitoring

Issue (2026-05-21)

  • Hugh encountered errors during cron jobs for 3rd-party mentions checks across web
  • Root cause: Gemini Flash model misbehaving with tool constraints (returning too many results)
  • Fix applied: Changed count max to 10; hugh-mentions-daily cron prompt now explicitly says count=10 with a note that 10 is the max
  • Last run after fix: returned ok ✅
  • If Gemini Flash continues to misbehave: bump to Claude Sonnet (more reliable with tool constraints, but slower + pricier)

progress.org Ghost Changelog Requirement

Standing Order (Ken, 2026-05-20)

Key People

  • Ken Yang (UNYCKRMC6): Primary requester; webdev exploration + content production
  • Floyd Marinescu (UKQ1MQDMW): Suggested Ghost/progress.org as agent webdev testbed
  • Liam Wilkinson (UNYCKRMC6 reply context): Confirmed Squarespace limits; endorsed Ghost idea

Ghost Deployment Learnings (2026-05-26)

Flat-file bundler format (Framer/similar exports):

  • Design tool exports produce zip files where all images/fonts are stored as base64 blobs referenced by internal UUIDs
  • Deploying the raw HTML to Ghost causes every image to show as broken (UUID used as literal src="")
  • Fix: Extract UUID→base64 map from bundle JSON, upload all images to Ghost CDN via /ghost/api/admin/images/upload, replace UUID src attributes with real CDN URLs before deploying
  • 17 images, 28 fonts processed for commonwealth.ca zips

Ghost slug-based templates:

  • Ghost supports page-<slug>.hbs templates that auto-route by page slug
  • A bare-content template (no Ghost chrome/header/footer): {{#page}}{{{content}}}{{/page}} with no {{!< default}} directive
  • This must be deployed in the live theme zip — adding via API alone is insufficient
  • Without this template, Ghost uses default.hbs which wraps content in full HTML shell

Viewport meta requirement:

  • When a Ghost page uses a bare template (no {{!< default}}), the entire page response IS the HTML card content — no <html>/<head> from the theme
  • Must inject <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> directly in the CSS card for mobile media queries to work

[Source: Ken Yang DM session b5464b88, 2026-05-26]

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