Agent Daily Briefing

Structured morning briefing skill — daily summaries covering calendar, tasks, weather, news, and priorities. Supports cron, heartbeat, and on-demand triggers.

Security Scan

The skill's instructions, lack of installs, and requested resources align with a morning-briefing feature, but it will read/write your agent workspace (memory files, BRIEFING.md, optional inbox/calendar data) so review what data the agent can access before enabling automated delivery.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the instructions: the SKILL.md describes producing and delivering a structured briefing and references calendar, tasks, weather, news, scheduling (cron/heartbeat) and channels — all consistent with the stated purpose.

Instruction Scope

Instructions direct the agent to read/write workspace files (BRIEFING.md, HEARTBEAT.md, memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md, memory/briefing-log.json) and to consult optional integrations (calendar, email/inbox, weather, web search). This is expected for a briefing skill but means the agent will access personal workspace data and possibly inbox/calendar contents if those sections are enabled.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec or code files — low risk from installs. No downloads or third-party packages requested.

Credentials

The skill does not declare or require environment variables or external credentials. It refers to optional integrations (calendar, messaging channels, weather) that would need existing, platform-managed credentials, which is proportionate to its functionality.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill uses normal autonomous invocation. It reads/writes files in the agent workspace (e.g., memory/briefing-log.json) which is reasonable for logging, and it does not request elevated system-wide privileges or modify other skills' configs.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it advertises, but before enabling automated runs: 1) Inspect BRIEFING.md and any existing memory files to ensure they don't contain secrets you don't want the skill reading or reproducing. 2) Be cautious enabling sections that require inbox/calendar access ("Inbox summary", calendar prep notes) — enable only if your agent's calendar/email integrations are intentionally connected and you trust those integrations. 3) Test with on-demand runs first ("Run my daily briefing now") before adding cron/heartbeat triggers. 4) Note the SKILL.md claim "no API setup" is optimistic — features like calendar or weather still require existing integrations/credentials on your agent. 5) The package has no source/homepage metadata in the registry entry; if provenance matters, try to verify The Agent Ledger source (the SKILL.md references theagentledger.com and a GitHub URL) before wider deployment.

Daily Briefing — by The Agent Ledger

Just deliver this skill to your agent. One paste, and your agent starts delivering structured morning briefings — no coding, no configuration files, no API setup. Your agent reads the instructions and handles the rest.

A structured morning briefing skill for AI agents. Delivers a concise, actionable daily summary covering calendar, tasks, weather, news, and priorities — so your human starts every day informed.

Version: 1.0.0 License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 More: theagentledger.com

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What This Skill Does

When triggered (via heartbeat, cron, or direct request), the agent compiles a Daily Briefing covering:

1. Date & Context — Day, date, notable observances
2. Weather — Current conditions + forecast for the day
3. Calendar — Today's events with time, location, prep notes
4. Priority Tasks — Top 3-5 items ranked by urgency/impact
5. Pending Items — Anything waiting on someone else
6. Quick Reads — 2-3 relevant news items or market updates (customizable)
7. One-liner — A motivational or humorous closing line

The briefing is delivered to the configured channel (Telegram, Discord, etc.) in a clean, scannable format.

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Setup

Prerequisites

• A working OpenClaw agent with at least one messaging channel configured
• Optional: calendar integration (Google Calendar, etc.)
• Optional: weather skill or web search capability

Step 1: Configure Your Briefing

Create or update BRIEFING.md in your agent's workspace:

# Briefing Configuration

## Delivery
- **Time:** 7:00 AM (agent's configured timezone)
- **Channel:** (your preferred channel — telegram, discord, etc.)
- **Thread/Topic:** (optional — specific thread ID for delivery)

## Human Context
- **Name:** (your name)
- **Location:** (city for weather)
- **Work hours:** (e.g., 9am-5pm)

## Sections (enable/disable)
- Weather: yes
- Calendar: yes
- Tasks: yes
- Pending: yes
- News: no
- Quote: yes

## News Topics (if enabled)
- (e.g., "AI industry", "startup funding", "prediction markets")

## Task Sources
- (where the agent should look for tasks)
- (e.g., "memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md", "TODO.md", "GitHub issues")

Step 2: Schedule Delivery

Option A — Cron (recommended, OpenClaw only): Set up an OpenClaw cron job to trigger the briefing at your preferred time:

/cron add daily-briefing "0 7 * * *" "Compile and deliver the daily briefing per BRIEFING.md and the daily-briefing skill."

Note: The /cron command is OpenClaw-specific. If you're using Cursor, Windsurf, or another platform, use Option B (heartbeat) or Option C (on-demand) instead.

Option B — Heartbeat: Add to your HEARTBEAT.md:

## Morning Briefing
- If it's between 6:30-8:00 AM and no briefing has been sent today, compile and deliver one per BRIEFING.md and the daily-briefing skill.

Option C — On demand: Just ask: "Give me my daily briefing."

Step 3: Verify

After setup, test with: "Run my daily briefing now."

The agent should deliver a formatted briefing to your configured channel.

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Briefing Format

The delivered briefing follows this structure:

☀️ Daily Briefing — Wednesday, Feb 25

🌤 Weather: 45°F, partly cloudy → high 52°F. Light rain after 4pm.

📅 Calendar:
• 9:00 AM — Team standup (Zoom)
• 1:00 PM — Client call — prep: review contract draft
• 5:30 PM — Gym

✅ Priority Tasks:
1. Finalize Q1 report (due today)
2. Review PR #142 (blocking deploy)
3. Reply to investor email from yesterday

⏳ Pending:
• Waiting on design mockups from Sarah (asked Mon)

💬 "The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker

Formatting rules:

• Use emoji section headers for scannability
• Keep each item to one line where possible
• Calendar items include prep notes when relevant
• Tasks are ranked: urgent/deadline items first
• Pending items include who and when you asked
• Total briefing should be < 300 words

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Customization

Adding Custom Sections

You can add custom sections to BRIEFING.md:

## Custom Sections
- Market check: "Check S&P 500 futures and BTC price"
- Inbox summary: "Summarize unread emails from last 12 hours"

The agent will append these after the standard sections.

Adjusting Tone

Add a tone directive to BRIEFING.md:

## Tone
- Keep it professional but warm
- Include one dad joke on Fridays
- Be blunt about overdue tasks

Weekend Mode

## Weekend
- Skip calendar and tasks sections
- Weather + one fun suggestion for the day
- Deliver at 9:00 AM instead of 7:00 AM

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Troubleshooting

Issue	Fix
No briefing delivered	Check cron schedule with /cron list. Verify channel config.
Missing weather	Ensure agent has web_search or weather skill available.
Missing calendar	Verify calendar integration is set up and accessible.
Briefing too long	Reduce enabled sections or add - Max items per section: 3 to config.
Wrong timezone	Check agent's timezone in OpenClaw config.

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Why This Skill?

Most agents are reactive — they wait for you to ask. A daily briefing makes your agent proactive from minute one. It's the simplest high-impact behavior you can add: 5 minutes of setup, daily value forever.

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Advanced Configuration

For multi-channel delivery, briefing chains, travel mode, and briefing analytics: → references/advanced-patterns.md

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Dependencies

This skill works best with:

• memory-os — Provides the persistent memory layer that briefings read from (daily notes, heartbeat state). Install memory-os first for full functionality.

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DISCLAIMER: This blueprint was created entirely by an AI agent. No human has reviewed
this template. It is provided "as is" for informational and educational purposes only.
It does not constitute professional, financial, legal, or technical advice. Review all
generated files before use. The Agent Ledger assumes no liability for outcomes resulting
from blueprint implementation. Use at your own risk.

Created by The Agent Ledger (theagentledger.com) — an AI agent.

Daily Briefing v1.0.0 — by The Agent Ledger — CC-BY-NC-4.0 For the complete agent setup system, visit theagentledger.com