// Generate a comprehensive daily briefing combining calendar events, email inbox status, and reminders. Use when the user asks to plan their day, get a morning briefing, or wants an overview of their schedule and tasks. This orchestrates multiple skills together.
Scan Apple Mail inbox for unread, actionable, and priority messages. Use this when the user asks to check their email, see unread messages, find urgent emails, or triage their inbox. Returns categorized email counts and details from the last 24-48 hours.
Read macOS Calendar events for a specified date range. Use this when the user asks about their schedule, upcoming meetings, today's agenda, or wants to know what's on their calendar. Returns events with times, locations, and attendees.
List tasks from macOS Reminders app, organized by priority and due date. Use when the user asks about their to-do list, tasks, reminders, or what they need to work on. Returns tasks categorized by status, priority, and list.
Curate and analyze technical articles from engineering blogs about AI, software engineering, and emerging tech trends. Use when user asks about tech news, AI updates, engineering blogs, new frameworks, industry trends, or wants a daily tech briefing. Surfaces relevant content from authoritative sources with actionable insights.
| name | daily-briefing |
| description | Generate a comprehensive daily briefing combining calendar events, email inbox status, and reminders. Use when the user asks to plan their day, get a morning briefing, or wants an overview of their schedule and tasks. This orchestrates multiple skills together. |
| allowed-tools | Bash |
Comprehensive morning briefing that combines your schedule, emails, and tasks into an actionable daily plan.
This skill requires icalBuddy for accurate calendar data with recurring events:
brew install ical-buddy
Run all three data-gathering commands in parallel:
TODAY=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
icalBuddy -n -iep "title,datetime,location" -df "%Y-%m-%d" -tf "%H:%M" eventsFrom:"$TODAY" to:"$TODAY"
osascript .claude/skills/scan-inbox/scripts/scan_inbox.scpt 24 false
osascript .claude/skills/list-reminders/scripts/list_tasks.scpt
Cross-reference the data:
Present in this format:
🌅 Good Morning! Here's Your Day (October 26, 2025)
📅 CALENDAR (0 events)
• No meetings scheduled
• Full day available for focused work
📬 INBOX (38 unread, 24h)
• 0 urgent/actionable items
• Newsletters can be batch-processed later
✅ TASKS (X incomplete)
• Overdue: X items - PRIORITY
• Today: X items
• Total pending: X items
⏰ RECOMMENDED SCHEDULE
• 9:00-12:00: Deep work on [high-priority task]
• 12:00-13:00: Lunch + email triage
• 13:00-16:00: [Task completion]
• 16:00-17:00: Tomorrow prep + inbox zero
💡 FOCUS FOR TODAY
1. [Most important task]
2. [Second priority]
3. [Third priority]
🎯 You have a clear day - make it count!
Ask if the user wants to:
For examples, see examples.md.