Morning Briefing

Start your day with a single summary of everything that matters. This skill pulls your unread emails, today's calendar, pending tasks, and local weather into one concise briefing — delivered to your Telegram, Discord, or saved as a daily file.

Run it on a cron every morning, or trigger it on-demand whenever you need a status check.

What You Get

• Unread email summary (count + top 5 by priority)
• Today's calendar events with times and locations
• Pending tasks or reminders from your task system
• Local weather forecast (temperature, conditions, rain probability)
• All in one message — no switching between 4 different apps

Setup

Required

• Email access — Gmail (via Gmail API/skill) or any email provider your agent can read
• Calendar access — Google Calendar API or Apple Calendar

Optional (but recommended)

• Weather — No API key needed. Your agent can fetch weather from any free source (wttr.in, Open-Meteo, etc.)
• Task system — If you use a task manager (Todoist, Asana, Notion, plain text files), tell your agent where tasks live
• Delivery channel — Telegram bot, Discord bot, or file output. If no channel is configured, the briefing is saved to memory/briefings/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Configuration

Tell your agent these preferences (it will store them in memory):

1. Your timezone — so the cron fires at the right local time
2. Briefing time — when you want it (default: 7:30 AM local)
3. Email account — which inbox to scan
4. Calendar — which calendar(s) to check
5. Weather location — your city or zip code
6. Delivery — where to send the briefing (Telegram, Discord, file)
7. Format preference — concise (bullet points) or detailed (with email previews)

How It Works

When triggered (by cron or on-demand), your agent executes this workflow:

Step 1: Gather Email

• Check your inbox for unread messages
• Count total unread
• Identify the top 5 by sender importance and subject urgency
• For each: sender name, subject line, 1-sentence preview
• Flag anything that looks urgent (keywords: urgent, ASAP, deadline, overdue, payment)

Step 2: Gather Calendar

• Pull today's events from your calendar
• For each: event name, start time, end time, location (if any), attendees count
• Highlight the next upcoming event with a countdown ("Team standup in 45 minutes")
• Note any conflicts (overlapping events)

Step 3: Gather Tasks

• Check your task system for items due today or overdue
• List up to 5 most important tasks
• Note any overdue items with how many days overdue
• If no task system is configured, skip this section

Step 4: Gather Weather

• Fetch today's weather for the configured location
• Include: current temperature, high/low, conditions (sunny/cloudy/rain), precipitation probability
• Add a practical note if relevant ("Bring an umbrella — 80% chance of rain after 3 PM")

Step 5: Compile & Deliver

Compile everything into a clean briefing format:

🌅 Morning Briefing — [Day, Month Date]

📧 EMAIL (X unread)
• [Sender] — [Subject] (preview)
• [Sender] — [Subject] (preview)
• [Sender] — [Subject] (preview)
🔴 [X] flagged as urgent

📅 CALENDAR
• 9:00 AM — Team standup (Google Meet)
• 11:30 AM — Client call with [Name] (Zoom)
• 2:00 PM — Dentist appointment
⏰ Next up: Team standup in 45 minutes

✅ TASKS
• [Task 1] — due today
• [Task 2] — due today
• [Task 3] — 2 days overdue ⚠️

🌤️ WEATHER — [City]
72°F / 22°C — Partly cloudy
High 78° Low 65° | Rain: 10%

Have a great day! ☕

Send via configured delivery channel, or save to memory/briefings/YYYY-MM-DD.md.

Step 6: Schedule (Cron Setup)

Set up a cron job to run this briefing every morning:

• Schedule: Daily at configured time (default 7:30 AM local)
• Task: Run morning briefing workflow
• Output: Deliver to configured channel

Your agent should use its cron/scheduling system (LaunchAgents on Mac, cron on Linux, or the agent's built-in scheduler) to trigger this automatically.

Examples

User: "Give me my morning briefing"

Agent runs the workflow and responds:

🌅 Morning Briefing — Monday, March 10

📧 EMAIL (12 unread) • Sarah Chen — Q1 Budget Review (needs your approval by EOD) • Mike Torres — Updated contract draft (3 attachments) • Newsletter — TechCrunch Daily (skip) 🔴 1 flagged as urgent: Sarah's budget review

📅 CALENDAR • 9:30 AM — Product sync (Google Meet, 6 attendees) • 1:00 PM — Lunch with Dave (The Mill, downtown) • 3:00 PM — Investor update prep (45 min block) ⏰ Next up: Product sync in 1 hour 15 minutes

✅ TASKS • Send revised proposal to Acme Corp — due today • Review PR #247 — due today • Follow up with Lisa re: partnership — 1 day overdue ⚠️

🌤️ WEATHER — San Francisco 58°F / 14°C — Foggy, clearing by noon High 64° Low 52° | Rain: 5%

User: "Set up my morning briefing for 6:45 AM every day on Telegram"

Agent: Configures cron for 6:45 AM, sets Telegram as delivery, confirms:

"Morning briefing scheduled for 6:45 AM daily. I'll send it to your Telegram. You'll get your first one tomorrow morning."

Customization Ideas

• Add news headlines — include top 3 stories from your industry
• Add stock/crypto prices — if you track specific tickers
• Add team updates — pull from Slack/Discord channels
• Weekend mode — different format on Sat/Sun (skip work email, add fun stuff)
• Travel mode — include flight status, hotel info, local tips when traveling

Want More?

This skill gives you a solid daily briefing. But if you want:

• Custom integrations — connect to your CRM, project management tool, invoicing system, or any API your business uses
• Advanced automations — briefings that trigger actions (auto-reply to urgent emails, create tasks from calendar items, send reminders to your team)
• Full system setup — identity, memory, security, and 5 custom automations built specifically for your workflow

DoctorClaw sets up complete OpenClaw systems for businesses:

• Guided Setup ($495) — 2-hour live walkthrough. Everything configured, integrated, and running by the end of the call.
• Done-For-You ($1,995) — 7-day custom build. 5 automations, 3 integrations, full security, 30-day support. You do nothing except answer a short intake form.

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