Morning Briefing

Generate a prioritized daily briefing from all your channels.

Usage: /morning-briefing

ARGUMENTS: $ARGUMENTS

What to gather

Step 0 — Calendar cache. CONDITIONAL: Google-calendar hosts only.

src/morning-briefing.py cannot reach the owner's Google Workspace calendar; it reads a cache the agent writes. Omitting this is silent: the briefing reports "couldn't read your calendar", or falls back to a local macOS Calendar read that stalls and can miss the work account entirely. Pull today's local-day events from the Google connector, then:

bash
echo '[{"raw":"9:00-9:30am 1:1 w/ Sam","calendar":"work"}]' | python3 src/write_calendar_cache.py
python3 src/write_calendar_cache.py --empty   # ONLY for a genuinely empty day

Hosts with no Google connector skip STEP 0 ONLY — the reader falls back to local macOS Calendar. Step 1 below still runs on every host. See "Calendar source (Google Workspace) — activation" for the full contract.

Step 1 — Base data (canonical; runs on EVERY host, including hosts that skipped Step 0):

bash
WORKSPACE="$(bash scripts/sutando-config.sh workspace)"
python3 src/morning-briefing.py

src/morning-briefing.py is the single source of truth for core briefing data: weather (Open-Meteo), macOS Calendar, macOS Reminders, overnight Discord DMs, pending questions, and system health. It writes output to results/proactive-<ts>.txt and sends a Discord DM directly. Review its output before composing the full briefing — do NOT re-fetch those sources manually.

Then augment with the following if configured (skip if not available):

1. Email — Run gws gmail +triage to get unread inbox. Summarize top 5 by priority. Flag anything urgent.

1. GWS Calendar — If the user uses Google Calendar (not just macOS Calendar), run gws calendar +agenda --today. List any meetings not already covered by the macOS Calendar output above.

1. Daily insight — Run python3 src/daily-insight.py. If it produces an insight, include it at the end of the briefing as "💡 Insight: ..."

1. Friction check — Run python3 src/friction-detector.py. If friction items found, include as "⚠️ Friction: count] items need attention" with the top 3.

How to deliver

src/morning-briefing.py already writes results/proactive-<ts>.txt (spoken by voice) and sends a Discord DM for the base data. If you gathered email or insight in steps 1–4, append them as a follow-up proactive file:

bash
echo "📧 Email: [count] unread. [summary]
💡 Insight: [insight text]" > "$WORKSPACE/results/proactive-$(date +%s).txt"

Calendar source (Google Workspace) — activation

src/morning-briefing.py is a standalone script and cannot reach the owner's Google Workspace calendar — the Station/Composio connector is agent-only. So the briefing reads a cache that the agent produces:

• Producer: src/write_calendar_cache.py writes state/calendar-today.json — {"date": "YYYY-MM-DD", "events": [{"raw": "...", "calendar": "..."}]}, atomically (tmp + os.replace). date is today in local time so a stale cache is ignored, and events: [] means a verified-empty day (never rendered as "clear" from a missing cache). Feed it the events you pulled from the connector:

bash echo '[{"raw":"9:00-9:30am 1:1 w/ Sam","calendar":"work"}]' | python3 src/write_calendar_cache.py python3 src/write_calendar_cache.py --empty # verified no events today

• Reader: get_calendar_events() prefers the cache. Set MORNING_BRIEFING_CALENDAR_SOURCE=google to make the cache the only trusted source — if it's missing/stale the briefing reports "couldn't read your calendar" rather than falling back to a local macOS Calendar that may not include the work account (the 2026-07-21 "falsely clear" bug, #2256).
• Without a Google connector: skip the producer step and the env var; the reader falls back to local macOS Calendar via AppleScript.

Nothing writes the cache automatically, so a briefing that only runs the reader reports unread on a Google-source host. The producer is therefore step 0 of this skill's own flow (above), which covers both /morning-briefing and a cron declared as "prompt_skill": "morning-briefing" — the natural config. The expanded cron prompt under "Scheduling" below remains valid but is no longer the only place the producer appears.

Observed on Chis-Mac-mini: state/calendar-today.json was last written 2026-07-30 07:28 and the host's cron was {"name": "morning-briefing", "prompt_skill": "morning-briefing"}, so nothing invoked the producer. Three consecutive briefings reported no calendar, and the local fallback added a ~23s AppleScript stall before returning nothing.

Scheduling

The canonical daily schedule produces the Google-calendar cache first, then runs the briefing against it (see the activation section above):

json
{
  "name": "morning-briefing",
  "cron": "57 6 * * *",
  "prompt": "Morning briefing. FIRST produce the calendar cache from the owner's REAL Google calendar (the standalone script can't reach the connector): pull today's events via the Google-calendar connector (e.g. sutando-station composio_exec GOOGLECALENDAR_EVENTS_LIST, calendarId=primary, today's local-day window), then pipe them as a JSON array of {raw,calendar} to `python3 src/write_calendar_cache.py` (or `--empty` if genuinely no events). THEN run `MORNING_BRIEFING_CALENDAR_SOURCE=google python3 src/morning-briefing.py` to deliver the briefing. Speak the result if voice is connected, send as Discord DM otherwise."
}

Calling /morning-briefing manually runs the same script plus GWS/insight augmentation.