| name | today |
| description | Re-run today's morning brief on demand, or append a follow-up to the active task list. Use when the user says "/today", "refresh my brief", "rerun the brief", "regenerate the dashboard", or types `/today add "<item>"` to capture a new follow-up. Reads and writes only the personal-morning-brief files in the Mission Control workspace (~/cowork/). |
/today
On-demand counterpart to the personal-morning-brief scheduled task. Two modes.
Mode 1 — bare /today: refresh
Re-run the full personal-morning-brief workflow, regardless of when the scheduled task last ran. Same steps, same files, same rules as spec/mission-control-spec.md §4.1.
- Refresh
personal/data/calendar.json, inbox.json, slack.json from Calendar, Gmail, Slack. Overwrite each file. If a connector fails, keep the prior good file and surface the gap downstream.
- Read
~/cowork/TASKS.md to source follow-ups (Active section).
- Read
memory/personal/recurring.md to resolve standing meetings on today's calendar.
- Regenerate
personal/outputs/dashboard.html — self-contained dark-mode HTML, no external scripts, every §4.2 section rendered.
- If
briefs/brief-YYYY-MM-DD.md exists for a prior day at the top level, move it to briefs/archive/. Then write today's briefs/brief-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md with all §4.1 sections in first-person chief-of-staff voice.
- Print a one-line summary: counts, gaps, and the brief + dashboard paths.
Critical: never write to personal/inputs/. Never send email, Slack, or invites. Read-only against connectors; write-only against data/, outputs/, and briefs/.
Mode 2 — /today add "<item>": capture a follow-up
Append the item to TASKS.md Active. The next brief and dashboard generation will pick it up automatically (follow-ups read from TASKS.md Active).
- Read
~/cowork/TASKS.md.
- Insert a new line directly under the
## Active header:
- [ ] **<item>** - captured via /today on {YYYY-MM-DD}
Preserve the rest of the file verbatim.
- Print a one-line confirmation: "Added to TASKS.md Active: "
- Do NOT regenerate the dashboard or brief on
/today add. The next bare /today or the 06:30 scheduled run will pick it up. (If the user wants it visible immediately, suggest they run bare /today next.)
Argument parsing
- No args, or just
/today → Mode 1.
/today add "<text>" or /today add <text> → Mode 2 with <text> as the item.- Anything else → print usage and stop.
Voice
Match personal/CLAUDE.md. Active voice, short sentences, no filler. No em dashes. The brief leads with what changes the day.
File references
- Spec:
spec/mission-control-spec.md
- Workflow this mirrors:
personal-morning-brief (scheduled, 06:30 PT daily)
- Domain voice:
personal/CLAUDE.md
- Task list:
~/cowork/TASKS.md
