| name | daily-standup |
| description | Use when Nico asks to write his daily stand-up, stand-up message, Geekbot reply, or to summarize yesterday's work for stand-up. Produces both "Yesterday" and "Today" sections in Nico's house style, organized by his current P1/P2/P3 epics with everything else under "Also". Posted in Slack |
Daily Standup
Produce Nico's two Slack stand-up replies (yesterday + today) in his exact style.
Process
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Load P-tasks. Read ~/.claude/skills/daily-standup/p-tasks.md. If the file is missing OR its iso_week: frontmatter differs from today's ISO week (date +%G-W%V), ASK Nico for the new P1, P2, P3 as free text — then save with today's updated: and iso_week:. Otherwise reuse silently.
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Gather yesterday's activity. Yesterday = today minus 1 calendar day, local time.
- Git commits. For each
~/gh/**/.git (depth ≤ 3): git log --all --author="korthout" --author="Nico Korthout" --since="<YYYY-MM-DD> 00:00" --until="<YYYY-MM-DD> 23:59:59" --pretty=format:"%h %s". Skip repos with no hits.
- Conversations.
find ~/.claude/projects -maxdepth 2 -name "*.jsonl" -newermt "<YYYY-MM-DD> 00:00" ! -newermt "<next-day> 00:00" — top-level only, exclude subagents/. Delegate summarization to ONE general-purpose subagent that returns one short bullet per session (first user message + a few subsequent user turns is enough). This keeps main context light.
- Slack activity (via Glean MCP). Catches "Also" work that git misses: support cases, incident response, planning posts, CI/build chatter, cross-team threads. Call
mcp__claude_ai_Glean__search with query="*", app="slack", from="Nico Korthout", after="<yesterday-minus-1>", before="<today>" (the after/before window is exclusive on both sides — widen by one day on each side to include yesterday), num_results=50. If the response has hasMoreResults: true or returns a cursor, paginate with the cursor until exhausted. Then filter:
- Keep: support/incident channels (
#inc-*, support-*), CVE channels (#cve-*), team DRI/planning posts (iteration planning, rotation swaps, retros), substantive cross-team threads where Nico contributed analysis, escalations.
- Drop: threads on his own open PRs (already covered by git), personal/reunion/birthday DMs, one-word replies ("Makes sense", "Thanks"), Geekbot self-messages, social chitchat in DMs.
- Cluster multi-message threads into one bullet — link the parent thread, not each reply.
- GitHub activity (optional). If a PR is referenced but its title/state matters, fetch via
curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<num>" -H "Authorization: token $(gh auth token)" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" (Go-based gh fails through Claude Code's proxy on macOS — always curl).
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Ask Nico for today's plan. One open-ended question. He may say "nothing for P2", give an issue number, or describe a task informally.
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Synthesize both sections. Map each activity item to P1 / P2 / P3 if it relates to that epic; otherwise to Also. When unsure, prefer Also. Drop trivial follow-up commits (test imports, lint fixups, minor renames) that belong to a larger merged PR — list the PR, not its commits.
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Output two clearly-separable blobs preceded by bold labels that Nico discards when pasting:
**For "What did you work on yesterday?":**
P1 - …
---
**For "What will you work on today?":**
P1 - …
Nico copies each blob to the matching Geekbot question — they go in as separate messages.
Style guide
Section headers — one per P-section, blank line after:
P1 - <Epic name> (<Phase>) — include phase in parentheses if the P-task description names one (e.g. "Drive Implement phase" → (Implement)); omit if the P-task doesn't name a phase.P3 - #<num> <short title> when the P-task is a single issue — number first, then a short human-readable title (rewrite — do NOT paste the raw issue title verbatim).Also — no number, no phase.
Bullets — ASCII hyphen + space: - item. NEVER •. NEVER em-dash — bullets. Nico's clipboard mojibakes Unicode bullets.
Empty P-section — one bullet:
- Yesterday:
- Nothing yesterday
- Today:
- Nothing planned today
Always include all three P-sections even if empty.
Links — GitHub-flavored markdown [text](url). Two acceptable forms:
- Preferred:
[<Full PR or issue title> #<num>](url) when the title carries information the reader needs. Example: [Track multiple element instances per agent instance #51513](https://github.com/camunda/camunda/issues/51513).
- Shorthand:
[PR #<num>](url) when mid-bullet and the surrounding text already conveys the topic. Example: "took over PR #53028".
- NEVER Slack-mrkdwn
<url|text>. NEVER bare URLs. NEVER (#num) without a link.
Inline code (backticks) — apply consistently to:
- version numbers:
`3.5.2`
- branch names:
`stable/8.8`, `main`
- file names:
`fetch_audit_data.ts`
- skill/plugin/tool names:
`reviewing-agent-ready-prs`, `gh auth refresh`
Slack channel references — when an item maps to a Slack channel (CVEs, incidents, project channels), write the channel as plain #channel-name — Slack auto-links it. Don't link or backtick. Examples: #cve-2026-4046-medium-core-features, #inc-support-32932-version-of-8-8-that-does-not-have-memory-allocation-issue.
Colleagues — first names only, in parentheticals when crediting a hand-off: (from Stephan and Deepthi). Don't @-mention.
Tone — concise plain English. Semicolons OK. No emojis. No section headers like "Yesterday:" or "Today:" inside the content — Geekbot's prompts provide the framing.
Clustering — one bullet per coherent topic. Group related PRs into one bullet ("Took over PR #X, PR #Y, PR #Z (same case)"). Don't list every commit. List the merged PR or user-visible outcome.
Issue-title rewriting — when a P-task description is verbose (e.g. [Bug] Explore solutions for and start breaking down Partitions gets unhealthy if many timers are scheduled #8991), rewrite to a short header (P3 - #8991 Partitions unhealthy with many timers).
P-tasks file format
~/.claude/skills/daily-standup/p-tasks.md:
---
updated: 2026-05-22
iso_week: 2026-W21
---
- P1: Drive Implement phase for AI Visibility & Explainability epic
- P2: Assist Business ID Visibility & Filtering epic
- P3: [Bug] Explore solutions for and start breaking down Partitions gets unhealthy if many timers are scheduled #8991
Refresh trigger: date +%G-W%V differs from frontmatter iso_week. Compute ISO week with %G-W%V (NOT %Y-W%V — %Y wraps wrong at year boundaries).
Reference example
See example.md for a complete worked stand-up (Nico's 2026-05-21 output) — use it to disambiguate any style question this guide doesn't cover.
Common mistakes
| Mistake | Fix |
|---|
• bullets | - — Nico's clipboard mojibakes them |
Slack-mrkdwn <url|text> links | [text](url) markdown |
| Listing every commit | Cluster to the merged PR / outcome |
| Skipping P2/P3 when empty | Include with - Nothing yesterday / - Nothing planned today |
| Adding "Yesterday:" / "Today:" inside the content | Don't — Geekbot prompts provide framing |
| Forgetting backticks on versions / branches / skill names | Apply consistently |
Em-dashes in section headers (P1 — …) | Space-hyphen-space: P1 - … |
| Pasting raw verbose issue title for P3 | Rewrite: P3 - #<num> <short title> |
Linking with (#51513) instead of [#51513](url) | Always provide the URL |
| Including a trivial fix-up commit as its own bullet | Drop it — list only the parent PR |
| Producing a single combined message | Output TWO separable blobs; Nico posts them as separate Geekbot replies |
| Skipping Slack — relying only on git | Support cases and planning posts have zero commits; always run the Glean Slack query |
| Stopping at the first 50 Slack results | Paginate until hasMoreResults is absent or cursor returns empty |
