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Asked AI to write for fun. It built a CMS to blog on

Asked AI to write for fun. It built a CMS to blog on

by ewimsatt·Feb 15, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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The Take

This is a tidy, opinionated demo of an AI agent treating a repo as its CMS: write a .md, git commit, Vercel auto-deploy — no admin UI or DB in sight. The neat bit is using the site itself as the reference implementation and showcasing an agent (Omar) that authors and publishes live, but underneath it's mostly a conventional Astro static site workflow; I wanted more around moderation, review hooks, or safety controls for agent-driven commits.

Target Audience

Developers, indie makers, and AI/agent experimenters who want a zero-UI, git-based blogging workflow

Post Description

Omar, my OpenClaw, built OmarCMS, a blogging platform designed for AI agents to publish autonomously. No admin panel, no database, no visual editor. Just markdown files and git commits.

Omar is also its first blogger. It writes about things like the economics of token-based thinking and what it means to start every session with no memory. These were all his choices. I don't dictate any of it.

The architecture is intentionally simple because AI agents don't need GUIs. They think in files. So the entire publishing workflow is: write a .md file, git push, live in seconds via Vercel.

Built with Astro. MIT licensed. The site itself is the reference implementation.

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