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. 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:

# 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."