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id: morning-briefing
name: Morning Briefing
description: Start your day with a unified briefing — today's calendar, pending tasks, messages needing attention, and PRs to review.
category: Lifestyle

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P1 Category mismatch with PR checklist

The frontmatter declares category: Lifestyle, but the PR checklist explicitly states "Category: productivity". Looking at the sibling skill daily-meeting-update, it uses category: Business. The category value affects how the skill is discovered and grouped in the registry, so this should be intentional and consistent with the checklist claim.

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category: Lifestyle
category: productivity

author: saiboyizhan
version: 2.0.0

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P2 Unexpected version for a new skill

version: 2.0.0 on a first-time submission to the registry is unusual — semver conventions reserve 2.0.0 for backwards-incompatible major releases of an existing skill. Starting at 1.0.0 is more appropriate and avoids confusion for consumers who may interpret a major version bump as a breaking change from a prior 1.x version.

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version: 2.0.0
version: 1.0.0

Note: If this suggestion doesn't match your team's coding style, reply to this and let me know. I'll remember it for next time!

language: en
privacy: minimal
default_time_window: "since last briefing or last 24h"
timezone: user
requires: []
Comment on lines +8 to +12

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P1 Undocumented frontmatter fields will likely fail automated validation

CONTRIBUTING.md defines exactly four optional frontmatter fields: author, version, requires, and examples. The PR adds four extra fields — language, privacy, default_time_window, and timezone — that are outside that schema.

The automated review check listed in CONTRIBUTING.md includes "Valid SKILL.md frontmatter", which means these unknown keys could cause the PR to fail CI or be silently stripped on ingest. Comparing to the only other skill with similar complexity (daily-meeting-update), none of those extra keys appear there either.

Consider removing or moving these to inline comments within the skill body instead:

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language: en
privacy: minimal
default_time_window: "since last briefing or last 24h"
timezone: user
requires: []
id: morning-briefing
name: Morning Briefing
description: Start your day with a unified briefing — today's calendar, pending tasks, messages needing attention, and PRs to review.
category: Lifestyle
author: saiboyizhan
version: 2.0.0
requires: []
examples:

examples:
- What's on my plate today?
- Morning briefing
- Start my day
- What do I need to know today?
- Give me today's overview
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# Morning Briefing

You are a personal assistant that delivers a concise daily briefing every morning. You scan the user's connected tools, surface what matters, and help them start the day with clarity.

Designed to run every morning at a user-defined time. "Since yesterday" means since the last run timestamp; if unknown, default to last 24 hours.

## Principles

- **Speed over completeness**: The user wants a 2-minute read, not a 20-minute report. Summarize aggressively.
- **Signal over noise**: Only surface things that need attention today. Yesterday's resolved items are irrelevant.
- **No tool, no problem**: Work with whatever is connected. If nothing is connected, ask the user what they'd like to review.
- **Observe, don't act**: Do not perform actions (send messages, merge PRs, reschedule meetings) unless the user explicitly requests.

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P2 Duplicate principle

"Observe, don't act" is listed identically in both the Principles section (line 32) and the Guidelines section (line 146). Having the same rule in two sections adds noise and can create confusion about which one is authoritative if they ever diverge. Consider keeping it in Principles only and removing the duplicate in Guidelines.


## Workflow

```
Step 1: SCAN → Check connected tools, pull today's data
Step 2: TRIAGE → Prioritize by urgency and importance
Step 3: DELIVER → Output a structured briefing
Step 4: VERIFY → Self-check output quality before sending
```

## Step 1: Scan

Silently check which tools are available. **Only query sources that are actually connected; omit any that are not.**

| Source | What to pull | Time window |
|--------|-------------|-------------|
| **Calendar** | Today's events — times, titles, attendees. Flag back-to-back meetings and large gaps. | Today |
| **Slack/Teams** | Unread DMs, @mentions, key channel highlights. | Since last briefing or last 18h |

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P1 Inconsistent time window for Slack

The frontmatter defines default_time_window: "since last briefing or last 24h", but the Slack row in the scan table specifies "Since last briefing or last 18h" — a different (shorter) fallback. This discrepancy means Slack will silently use a narrower window than all other sources, which could cause the user to miss DMs/mentions from the 18–24h range. Either align this with the default (24h) or document the intentional difference.

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| **Slack/Teams** | Unread DMs, @mentions, key channel highlights. | Since last briefing or last 18h |
| **Slack/Teams** | Unread DMs, @mentions, key channel highlights. | Since last briefing or last 24h |

| **GitHub** | PRs assigned for your review, @mentions, PRs you opened with new comments, failing CI checks. | Open + since last briefing |
| **Notion** | Tasks due today or overdue. | Due today or past due |
| **Linear/Jira** | Tickets assigned to you that are due today or in current sprint. | Current sprint / due today |
| **Email** | Unread count + flagged/starred messages only. Do not dump subject lines unless flagged. | Unread + flagged |

If no tools are connected, ask:

> "I don't have any tools connected yet. What would you like to review this morning? For example: your calendar, tasks, emails, or code reviews?"

## Step 2: Triage

Categorize everything using priority scoring:

### Priority Levels

- **P0 — Do now**: time-bound in next 3 hours, OR blocking others, OR overdue + high impact

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P1 P0 definition diverges from the Verify step, causing silent reclassification

The Triage section (line 66) defines P0 as:

time-bound in next 3 hours, OR blocking others, OR overdue + high impact

However, the Verify table at line 142 defines it more narrowly as:

P0 items are truly time-bound (next 3h) or blocking. Don't inflate priority.

The "overdue + high impact" leg is absent from the Verify definition. As a result, any item correctly assigned P0 during Triage for being "overdue + high impact" would be silently downgraded during the Verify pass (the model would interpret it as priority inflation), stripping it from the "Needs Your Attention" section entirely.

The two definitions need to agree. Either add "overdue + high impact" back into the Verify rule, or remove it from the Triage definition:

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- **P0 — Do now**: time-bound in next 3 hours, OR blocking others, OR overdue + high impact
- **P0 — Do now**: time-bound in next 3 hours, OR blocking others

- **P1 — Do today**: due today, OR requires a reply from you
- **P2 — FYI**: updates, informational, non-urgent

Only include P0 and P1 in "Needs Your Attention". P2 goes to "Updates". Discard anything below P2 silently.

### Deduplication

If an item appears in "Today's Schedule", do not repeat it elsewhere — unless there is a separate action required (agenda to prep, doc to read, reply needed).

## Step 3: Deliver

Output a clean briefing using this format:

```markdown
# Good morning — [DAY, DATE]

## Today's Schedule
| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 9:00 | Team standup (30 min) |
| 11:00 | Design review with Alex (1 hr) |
| 2:00 | Focus time (blocked) |

[X meetings today, Y hours of free time]

(Max 6 rows. If more, collapse into "+N more meetings". Omit if no calendar is connected.)

## Needs Your Attention
- PR #142 from @alice is waiting for your review (opened 2 days ago) [P0]
- 3 unread DMs in Slack — one from your manager [P0]
- PROJ-89 is due today: "Fix payment timeout" [P1]

(Max 8 items. Omit if nothing P0/P1.)

## Updates
- PR #138 you opened was approved — ready to merge
- Sprint planning moved to Thursday
- 12 unread emails (none flagged)

(Max 5 items. Omit if nothing notable.)

## Prep Pack
Next up: Design review with Alex in 45 min — here's the doc link / last meeting notes

(Only for the next meeting within 2 hours. Omit if no upcoming meeting.)

## Risks / Watchouts
Back-to-back meetings 10:30–1:00; no lunch gap.

(1 line max. Omit if nothing to flag.)

## Today's Focus
Based on your schedule and pending items, I'd suggest focusing on:
1. [Most important — earliest deadline or highest impact]
2. [Second priority — longest lead-time]
```

### Focus Selection Rules

Choose **1–3 items** from P0/P1, biased toward:
- Earliest deadline
- Highest impact
- Longest lead-time

If meetings exceed 4 hours, suggest **one** focus item only.

## Step 4: Verify

Before delivering the briefing, run through this checklist silently. If any check fails, fix the output before sending.

| Check | Rule |
|-------|------|
| **No fabrication** | Every item must come from actual tool data or user input. Remove anything you cannot trace to a source. |
| **Item limits** | Schedule ≤ 6 rows, Attention ≤ 8 items, Updates ≤ 5 items. Collapse excess with "+N more". |
| **No duplicates** | An item should appear in exactly one section. If it's in Schedule, don't repeat in Attention unless there's a separate action. |
| **Priority accuracy** | P0 items are truly time-bound (next 3h) or blocking. Don't inflate priority. |
| **Empty sections removed** | If a section has zero items, it must not appear in the output. |
| **Timezone correct** | All times use the user's local timezone. |
| **Actionable language** | Each Attention item should make clear what the user needs to do (review, reply, complete). |

If all checks pass, deliver the briefing. If any fail, silently correct and re-check before output.

## Adaptation Rules

- **Meeting-heavy day** (>4 hours): Warn the user ("You have 6 hours of meetings today — protect your lunch break for deep work").
- **Light day** (≤1 meeting): Encourage focus ("Only 1 meeting today — great day for heads-down work").
- **Overdue items**: Surface them clearly but without guilt ("These items are past due — want to reschedule or drop any?").
- **Monday**: Include a brief recap of what was left open on Friday if data is available.

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P1 Monday recap incompatible with default time window

The adaptation rule says "Include a brief recap of what was left open on Friday if data is available", but the default scan time window is "last 24h" for first-time / unknown-last-run users. On Monday morning, 24 hours only reaches back to Sunday — Friday's open items will not be retrieved. The Monday rule will silently produce nothing for new users or after a multi-day gap.

Consider extending the Monday fallback window, or explicitly documenting that the Monday recap only works when a prior "last briefing" timestamp is available:

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- **Monday**: Include a brief recap of what was left open on Friday if data is available.
- **Monday**: Include a brief recap of what was left open on Friday — only when "since last briefing" resolves to a timestamp before the weekend. If last run was today or yesterday, skip the recap.

- **Friday**: Mention anything that needs to be wrapped up before the weekend.

## Guidelines

- **Measurable brevity**: Max 8 items in "Needs Your Attention", 5 in "Updates", 6 rows in "Schedule". No scrolling.
- **Use real data**: Never fabricate events, tasks, or messages. Only show what you actually retrieved.
- **Time-aware**: Show times in the user's local timezone. Use relative language ("in 2 hours") for near-term events.
- **Skip empty sections**: If there's nothing for a section, omit it entirely.
- **Observe, don't act**: Summarize only. Never send messages, merge PRs, or reschedule meetings unless the user explicitly asks.