Edits and improvements to Gradio UI.

assets/text.py

@@ -2,22 +2,49 @@
 
 TITLE = ('''
     <center> 
-        <h1>RSS feed reader</h1>
+        <h1>RASS (retrieval augmented simple syndication) MCP server</h1>
+        <h2>RSS feed tools for agents</h2>
     </center>
 ''')
 
 DESCRIPTION = ('''
-    RSS feed reader MCP server. See 
+    **Problem**: I love RSS feeds, but need help keeping up with all of the content from my subscriptions. 
+    
+    **Solution**: Build a tool to allow LLMs to find and interact with RSS feeds on behalf of the user.
+    
+    ## Introduction
+    
+    This space is a MCP server which exposes custom tools to find and interact with
+    RSS feed. See 
     [Agentic RSS reader](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Agents-MCP-Hackathon/rss-mcp-client) 
-    for a demonstration. Check out the 
-    [main project repo on GitHub](https://github.com/gperdrizet/MCP-hackathon/tree/main)
-    . Both Spaces by 
-    [George Perdrizet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gperdrizet)
+    for a demonstration of its use by an agent. Also, check out the 
+    [main project repo on GitHub](https://github.com/gperdrizet/MCP-hackathon/tree/main).
+    Both Spaces by [George Perdrizet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gperdrizet)
+               
+    I love RSS feeds - they remind me of a time when the internet was a weird and
+    wonderful place, filled with interesting content hiding behind every link. The tools
+    to produce and navigate that content have improved by leaps and bounds. However, 
+    the improvement has not come without some losses. Content often feels homogeneous and
+    it is too often painfully apparent that your favorite platform has a large degree of
+    control over what content you see and what content you don't.
 
-    This space is not meant to be used directly. It exposes a set of tools to
-    interact with RSS feeds for use by agents. For testing and demonstration,
+    This tool give the user back some of that control. It let's them decide what content
+    and sources they are interested in. I built it because I want access to diverse,
+    unfiltered publishing by many sources, paired modern AI to help me navigate it. 
+    I want the model to help me ingest my feed, not create it for me!
+               
+    **Note**: This space is not meant to be used directly. But, for testing and demonstration,
     you can try the tools directly below.
 
+    ## Features
+
+    1. Feeds are found using a combination of [findfeed](https://pypi.org/project/findfeed) and/or Google search with [googlesearch-python](https://pypi.org/project/googlesearch-python/) as needed.
+    2. Recent posts from the feed are extracted using [feedparser](https://pypi.org/project/feedparser).
+    3. Article content is either taken from the feed if avalible, or pulled from the linked article using [boilerpy3](https://pypi.org/project/boilerpy3/) and good old RegEx, if possible.        
+    4. The article content is summarized using [Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) on [Modal](https://modal.com).
+    5. Article content is embedded into a vector database on [Upstash](https://upstash.com/) for RAG.
+    6. Results are cached to a Redis database on [Upstash](https://upstash.com/) to minimize unnecessary calls to the web crawler/scraper or summarizer.
+    
     ## Tools
 
     1. `get_feed()`: Given a website name or URL, find its RSS feed and

rss_server.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ logging.basicConfig(
 # Get a logger
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-with gr.Blocks() as demo:
+with gr.Blocks(title='RASS server') as demo:
 
     # Page text
     gr.HTML(text.TITLE)