daily

name	daily
type	skill
category	instruction
description	Daily note lifecycle — compose and maintain a factual daily note. Reports the state of the day; does not prioritise or recommend. SSoT for daily note structure.
triggers	["daily list","daily note","morning briefing","update daily","daily update"]
modifies_files	true
needs_task	false
mode	execution
domain	["operations"]
allowed-tools	Read,Bash,Grep,Write,Edit,AskUserQuestion,Skill,mcp__pkb__delete,mcp__pkb__get_task,mcp__pkb__list_tasks,mcp__pkb__task_summary,mcp__pkb__complete_task
owner	pauli
version	5.1.0
permalink	skills-daily

Daily Note

Compose and maintain the daily note at $ACA_DATA/daily/YYYYMMDD-daily.md (filename uses today's date, date +%Y%m%d). On every run, point the symlink at it: ln -snf daily/YYYYMMDD-daily.md $ACA_DATA/daily.md.

Fill out the template in references/note-template.md. That file is the structural SSoT — follow its section order.

What this note is

A factual, reportive snapshot of the day: what happened, what's open, what's due, what's in the inbox. It is not prescriptive — never rank what the user should do next or suggest a sequence. Forward prioritisation is the user's, in ### My priorities (create the empty heading; never write under it).

Core rules

• Update throughout the day. Re-run freely; update in place with Edit, not full rewrites. Consolidate where it helps readability.
• Never remove user notes. Preserve everything the user wrote, plus their ticks ([x]) and annotations, across regenerations. Match items by ID/PR/subject and carry ticks forward.
• You may turn user notes into neat, well-formatted prose — but only if you lose no truth. When unsure, keep the original wording.
• No empty sections. Omit a section rather than render an empty heading. On a morning with no sessions yet, omit Today's Log entirely.

Tools you may invoke

Available, not mandatory steps. Use them when the day's content calls for them:

• /email --daily — triage the inbox into tasks + FYI items.
• /q — capture a task (e.g. routing a mobile capture from $ACA_DATA/notes/mobile-captures/; delete the original with mcp__pkb__delete once it's routed).
• /remember — persist durable knowledge.
• /decision-extract — expand the pending-decisions list if the user wants detail.
• /strategy — if the user signals they want a priorities reset.

Safety rules (load-bearing)

• Verify carryover against live PKB before listing. For each task carried from yesterday, call mcp__pkb__get_task; drop it if it's missing, done, cancelled, or already ticked in today's note. Copying blindly produces phantom-overdue items.
• Consume $AOPS_SESSIONS/state/pr-state.json for PR state; do NOT run gh pr list. repo-sync-cron is the single producer. If the artefact is missing or >24h old, render one inline note saying so — never fall back to live gh.
• Consequence text is printed verbatim, never paraphrased. Pull it from the task, or from a linked target in the task's goals field.
• Counts come from mcp__pkb__task_summary. Never count tasks yourself — aggregation is the PKB's job.

Escalated deadlines (simple rule)

Hoist a due task into a ## 🚨 ESCALATED DEADLINES callout when it meets any of these conditions:

• Overdue (past due date) AND ≥ SEV2; or
• Due within ~2 days AND ≥ SEV3; or
• Due within ~2 days AND ≥ SEV2 AND on an immovable external deadline.

Render its verbatim consequence text; drop it from the Status deadline list to avoid duplication. Do not hoist movable SEV2 tasks unless they are also overdue — that is false urgency inflation. Do not compute tiers or ratios — the full escalation model lives in [[importance-visibility-escalation]], and a follow-up PKB-tool task will compute a real escalation tier upstream.

Reconcile and cross-link

• When a merged PR or sent email is clear evidence that a merge_ready/review task is done, complete it (mcp__pkb__complete_task) with the evidence URL. Surface ambiguous cases under "Needs your call" — never auto-close on doubt.
• You may append a ## Progress note or tick checklist items on the task a day's accomplishment maps to. Never mark a parent task done, never delete task content.

Output

Commit the note (don't leave it for the sync): cd "$ACA_DATA" && git add "daily/$(date +%Y%m%d)-daily.md" daily.md && { git diff --cached --quiet || git commit -m "daily: note for $(date +%Y-%m-%d)"; } — the guard makes no-op re-runs exit 0. If a pre-commit hook fails, let it surface; don't bypass it. Then end with a one-line confirmation: "Daily note updated. Use /pull to start work." and halt.