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

What This Skill Does

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

1. 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.

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:

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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:
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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.

Briefing Format

The delivered briefing follows this structure:

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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

Customization

Adding Custom Sections

You can add custom sections to BRIEFING.md:

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The agent will append these after the standard sections.

Adjusting Tone

Add a tone directive to BRIEFING.md:

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Weekend Mode

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Troubleshooting

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

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.

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