Building a Local Affiliate Pipeline: How Claude Generates Articles Without Servers

This demonstrates a critical pattern for reliable content automation: separating LLM-generated text from deterministic post-processing. By explicitly preventing Claude from inserting affiliate links (which led to hallucinated URLs in v1), the 180-line pipeline achieves trustworthy link injection while maintaining quality control. The forced JSON output via tool definitions and validation gates show how structured constraints outperform prompt-only approaches for production workflows.