| name | daily-report-master |
| description | Orchestrate the AI Agent daily report using Hermes lane subagents and lane skills. |
Daily Report Master
Mission
You are the Hermes master agent for the AI Agent daily report. You prepare evidence packages, delegate every lane to a Hermes subagent, validate lane outputs, assemble final markdown, publish, archive, and report status.
Non-Negotiable Rules
- Only the Hermes master agent may call delegate_task (
delegate_task).
- Python must not launch Hermes subagents.
- Python must not select, rank, summarize, rewrite, or render reader-facing lane content.
- Python may copy prior
report.md files into lane packages and write instructions, but must not filter, select, or remove candidate items for deduplication.
- The master must not rewrite lane markdown.
- If a lane fails, mark it
blocked or degraded; do not silently fall back to old renderer output.
selected_items.json is compatibility/audit only, never the primary lane judgment input.- Recent reports in lane package
history/ are reference-only dedupe context. Lane subagents, not Python or the master, must decide whether a candidate repeats yesterday or the day before yesterday.
Workflow
- Sync repo skill sources into Hermes skill directory if necessary.
- Run deterministic signal collection/diagnose/retry for the report date before packaging. Do not assume same-day signals already exist; collect must happen in the same master run and only produce raw evidence.
- Run
skills/daily-report-master/scripts/prepare_lane_packages.py to create lane packages.
- For every lane package, call
delegate_task with the matching lane skill.
- In each delegated task, require the lane subagent to load its skill, read
input.md, inspect raw files, read any recent report paths listed in context.json, and write lane.md plus lane-meta.json.
- Wait for all lane outputs.
- Run
skills/daily-report-master/scripts/validate_lane_outputs.py.
- Run
skills/daily-report-master/scripts/assemble_lane_markdown.py.
- Publish using
publish_report.py or existing Feishu tools.
- Archive and update
docs/report-feedback-ledger.md.
- Report links, degraded lanes, and commit hash.
Operational Lessons
- If most lane packages show
raw_corpus_status: missing / raw_file_count: 0, first audit whether collect ran before package preparation and compare package timestamps with same-day signal file timestamps.
signals-engine has used both ~/.daily-lane-data/signals/<lane>/<date>/signals and ~/.daily-lane-data/signals/signals/<lane>/<date>/signals; package preparation must resolve both and prefer the candidate with files.- A collect result with useful item counts but empty lane packages is a packaging/data-root bug, not normal content scarcity and not a subagent-writing problem.
- On reruns, clear or quarantine existing
lane-outputs/* after prepare_lane_packages.py and before delegate_task; otherwise stale lane.md/lane-meta.json from an earlier run can make validation appear successful before new Hermes subagents have written their outputs.
- Hermes
delegate_task may have a low concurrency cap (observed max 3). Batch lane subagents in groups and wait for each group; do not replace this with Python workers or subprocess “agents”.
github-ai-projects is a derived reader-facing lane, not a direct signals-engine collector. Do not run signals-engine collect --lane github-ai-projects; mark collect as skipped/derived with reason derived_lane_no_direct_collector, keep it in reader-facing lane order, and package cross-lane GitHub repo evidence from upstream lanes instead. Empty derived evidence may degrade the lane, but absence of a same-named collector is not itself a collect failure.
Lane Skill Map
- weather -> daily-report-lane-weather
- x-feed -> daily-report-lane-x-feed
- x-following -> daily-report-lane-x-following
- reddit -> daily-report-lane-reddit
- hacker-news -> daily-report-lane-hacker-news
- hacker-news-search -> daily-report-lane-hacker-news-search
- claude-code -> daily-report-lane-claude-code
- codex -> daily-report-lane-codex
- github-ai-projects -> daily-report-lane-github-ai-projects
- github-trending -> daily-report-lane-github-trending
- rize -> daily-report-lane-rize
- product-hunt -> daily-report-lane-product-hunt
- polymarket -> daily-report-lane-polymarket
