Eternal Daily Briefing

Generate a consolidated daily briefing with weather, calendar events, tasks, news, and market data. Use when the user asks for a morning briefing, daily upda...

Security Scan

The skill's code and instructions are coherent with its stated purpose (generating a local daily briefing), it only reads/writes files under ~/.briefing and fetches data from the listed public services, and it does not request unrelated credentials or hidden network endpoints.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description, SKILL.md, and scripts/briefing.py are consistent: the script fetches weather (wttr.in), news (Google News RSS), market data (via yfinance), and reads local tasks/events files under ~/.briefing. All requested resources map to the stated features.

Instruction Scope

Runtime instructions and the code limit operations to reading/writing ~/.briefing/{config,tasks,events}.json and making network requests to the external services explicitly listed in the README (wttr.in, Google News RSS, Yahoo via yfinance). There are no instructions to read unrelated system files or to post data to unknown endpoints.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec (instruction-only), so nothing is written to system locations during install — good from a risk perspective. Note: the script imports third-party Python packages (requests, beautifulsoup4/bs4, yfinance) but SKILL.md does not provide explicit dependency/install instructions; this is an operational omission, not a security problem.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables or external credentials. It writes a default config to ~/.briefing/config.json and reads tasks/events from the same directory, which is appropriate for its purpose. No tokens or sensitive system credentials are requested.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request persistent platform privileges. It creates/uses only its own config directory (~/.briefing) and does not modify other skills or system-wide agent settings.

Assessment

This skill appears internally consistent and does what it says: it will create ~/.briefing/config.json (with a default) and read ~/.briefing/tasks.json and events.json, and it will make network requests to wttr.in, Google News RSS, and Yahoo (via yfinance). Before installing/run: (1) review the full script locally (it’s included) to confirm you’re comfortable running code from an unknown source; (2) install the required Python packages (requests, beautifulsoup4, yfinance) in an isolated environment (virtualenv) to avoid polluting your system; (3) if you store sensitive tasks/events, be aware the script reads those files locally but does not transmit them to arbitrary endpoints; and (4) if you plan to run via cron, schedule it under an account with only the permissions you want the skill to have. If you want higher assurance, ask the publisher for a homepage or source repository and a dependency list / installation instructions.

Daily Briefing

Generate a consolidated morning briefing from multiple data sources.

Quick Start

python3 scripts/briefing.py              # full briefing
python3 scripts/briefing.py --weather    # weather only
python3 scripts/briefing.py --news       # news only
python3 scripts/briefing.py --crypto     # crypto prices only
python3 scripts/briefing.py --short      # compact one-liner version

Sections

Section	Source	Content
🌤️ Weather	wttr.in	Current conditions + 3-day forecast
📰 News	Google News RSS	Top headlines by region/topic
📈 Markets	Yahoo Finance	BTC, ETH, major indices, forex
📋 Tasks	Local file	Pending tasks from tasks.json
🎂 Events	Local file	Today's events from events.json

Configuration

Edit ~/.briefing/config.json:

{
  "location": "Dhaka, Bangladesh",
  "news_topics": ["technology", "business"],
  "news_region": "BD",
  "crypto": ["BTC-USD", "ETH-USD", "SOL-USD"],
  "stocks": ["SPY", "QQQ", "AAPL"],
  "forex": ["EURUSD=X", "GBPUSD=X"],
  "timezone": "Asia/Dhaka"
}

Tasks File

Add tasks to ~/.briefing/tasks.json:

[
  {"task": "Submit project report", "due": "2026-03-31", "priority": "high"},
  {"task": "Call dentist", "due": "2026-04-01", "priority": "medium"}
]

Cron Integration

Schedule daily briefing with OpenClaw cron:

Schedule: 0 8 * * * (8:00 AM daily)
Command: python3 scripts/briefing.py --short

Output Modes

• Default: Full formatted briefing with all sections
• --short: Compact single-message version (good for chat delivery)
• --json: Machine-readable JSON output
• --section: Only specific section (weather/news/crypto/tasks)