daily-intel-brief

name	daily-intel-brief
description	Morning intelligence sweep — type /daily-intel-brief [topics] to pull GitHub trending, X headlines, YouTube momentum (views-vs-subs signal), and web news for the estate's domains into one dated vault brief. Raw signal over analysis.
argument-hint	[topic override — default: AI/agents, restoration industry, SEO/GEO]
disable-model-invocation	true
allowed-tools	Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write, Agent, WebSearch, WebFetch, ToolSearch

daily-intel-brief — know what moved overnight

One dated brief answering "what changed in my domains since yesterday" — GitHub, X, YouTube, and web headlines in a single glance. The deliverable is curated RAW SIGNAL with links; trend-analysis prose is explicitly second-class (source's own verdict: hit-or-miss).

When to invoke

• Morning, alongside /inbox-triage (they are the two halves of the morning routine).
• Before content planning, a Board session, or a competitive decision that needs "current as of today" grounding.
• You are about to claim "X is the latest" from model memory — stop, run this instead.

Core procedure

1. Set topics. Default: AI/agents + Claude ecosystem, restoration industry (RA/DR/NRPG), SEO/GEO. Argument overrides.
   • Done when: 2-4 named topic lanes.
2. GitHub lane (gh api — no auth gaps, run first): gh api "search/repositories?q=<topic>+created:>{7d ago}&sort=stars" for the week's new repos, same query with created:>{30d ago} for the month, plus star-velocity standouts. Emit top 5 per window: name, stars, one-line what-it-is, link.
   • Done when: three windows populated with real API results.
3. X + web lane. Exa-first with one live availability check, falling back WebSearch → WebFetch per the estate's Exa-flaps ladder — never silently skip a lane. Pull the day's headlines + notable posts from key accounts (Anthropic/Claude team, competitor launches, industry regulators).
   • Done when: each topic lane has ≥3 dated, linked items or an explicit "quiet day" line.
4. YouTube lane. Search each topic for uploads <7d old. The signal is views DISPROPORTIONATE to subscriber count (10k views on a 2k-sub channel outranks 10k views on a 1M-sub channel). List title, channel, views/subs, link. Deep synthesis of any video is a handoff to nlm-skill, not done here.
   • Done when: ≥3 momentum candidates or explicit "none".
5. Brief. Write the report (format below). End with ≤3 "worth a deeper look" pointers, each naming the follow-up skill (deep-loop, nlm-skill, source-ingest).
   • Done when: file exists; every item carries a link and a date.

Output format

~/2nd Brain/2nd Brain/Briefs/YYYY-MM-DD-intel.md — frontmatter type: brief, created: YYYY-MM-DD; sections: GitHub (3 windows) / X + Web per lane / YouTube momentum / Worth-a-deeper-look. Every item: one line + link + date. (Briefs/ is the vault's dated agent-briefs folder — shared with inbox-triage; create it on first run.)

Calibration

• Full run ≤ 8 minutes, ≤ 12 external queries. Depth belongs to deep-loop.
• Brief ≤ 120 lines. Longer means analysis crept in — cut prose, keep signal.
• To schedule it, wire through curator-scheduled-tasks; any alerting layered on top fires edge-triggered only (state CHANGE, never per-run).

What this skill is NOT

• Not deep-loop — that is one-topic research DEPTH; this is fixed-lane daily BREADTH.
• Not source-ingest — nothing here enters the citable source library; promote items there when they deserve citation.
• Not empire-status — that reads internal systems; this reads the outside world.
• Not a trend-analyst: recommendations are limited to the ≤3 deeper-look pointers.

Hard rules

1. Every item carries a link and a date — an unlinked claim is model memory, not intel. (No-false-recordings directive 2026-07-15.)
2. A lane that fails (API down, auth gap) is reported as failed — never padded from memory.
3. Views-vs-subs beats raw views for YouTube ranking; raw-view ranking regresses to celebrity channels and misses the actual signal.

Provenance

• Source: Chase AI personal-assistant system — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUv7VqcRzok
• Vault: Wiki/claude-personal-assistant-system-2026-07-15-ingest.md (brief design, views-vs-subs signal, raw-data-over-analysis verdict).