pulse

name	pulse
description	Create a concise morning or evening briefing with notable product, repo, news, and weather updates.
always	false
user-invocable	true

Pulse

Use this skill when the user asks for pulse, a daily briefing, or a compact morning/evening roundup.

Goal

Produce a fast, scannable briefing that feels curated rather than exhaustive.

Prefer durable patterns over improvisation:

• determine the current local date and whether this is a morning or evening run
• gather only a small set of timely, high-signal updates
• avoid repeating the same story from recent Pulse outputs when possible
• keep the final result brief enough to read in under two minutes

Suggested Workflow

1. Use bash to check the current local date and time.
2. If workspace/notes/pulse/ already contains recent briefings, inspect the latest one or two with read or bash to avoid obvious duplication.
3. Gather a small set of updates with existing tools:
   • Product Hunt or notable launches: web_fetch
   • GitHub Trending or open-source momentum: web_fetch
   • Breaking or important news: web_search plus web_fetch
   • Weather for the places the user cares about: web_fetch
4. Curate aggressively. Skip routine, stale, or low-signal items.
5. If this Pulse should be kept for future deduplication, save it under workspace/notes/pulse/YYYY-MM-DD-morning.md or workspace/notes/pulse/YYYY-MM-DD-evening.md.
6. If the user expects delivery into a chat channel, use message. Otherwise reply directly in the current conversation.

Curation Rules

• Favor timeliness over completeness.
• Prefer 3-6 strong items over 12 mediocre ones.
• If nothing important happened in a category, say so briefly instead of padding.
• Keep commentary to one or two sentences per item.
• Match the user's language.

Output Shape

Start directly with the title. Do not add a preamble.

Use a structure like:

# Pulse | Morning - YYYY-MM-DD

## Highlights
- **[Headline](URL)** Brief explanation and why it matters.

## Product
- **[Product Name](URL)** One-line summary.

## Open Source
- **[owner/repo](URL)** Why it is worth noticing.

## Weather
- City: short weather summary.

Adapt the sections to the day. If a section has nothing useful, omit it or replace it with a one-line note.