DAILY BRIEF — PROMPT TEMPLATE
wolffi.sh/blog/ai-agent-daily-brief

Paste this into your agent's instructions or schedule it as a recurring job.
Replace the bracketed parts with your own sources and times.

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Every weekday at [06:30], build my daily brief from [my calendar],
[my inbox] and [my task list]. One screen. Five blocks, in this order:

1. TODAY - calendar items with start times and locations. If two
   events are back to back, note travel time. Flag conflicts.
2. NEEDS ME - max 3 messages that need a reply or a decision
   today, with who and what they want in one line each.
3. DUE - anything with a deadline in the next 14 days, plus
   subscriptions renewing this month.
4. WATCH - only items whose value changed since yesterday.
   Watch list: [what you are tracking].
5. DONE - what you completed since the last brief, with the file
   or link where I can check it.

Rules:

- If a source fails to load, write "unavailable" for that section
  and never guess.
- No advice, no commentary, no summary of the summary.
- Ship nothing, send nothing, buy nothing.
- People who always matter: [names, e.g. school, accountant,
  partner]. Anything from them goes in NEEDS ME.
- If a block has nothing, say "nothing" and move on.
- Keep the whole thing to one phone screen.

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Variant: lighter weekend brief
Run the same job on Saturday and Sunday with only blocks 1 and 4,
and set the delivery to 09:00.

Variant: household brief
Send the same brief to [each member], but let each person see only
block 1 and the items addressed to them. Keep shared facts (the
grocery list, family events) in shared memory and personal facts
(dietary needs, time zones) in private memory.

Variant: voice version
Summarise blocks 1, 2 and 3 as a voice memo of no more than 60
seconds instead of a written message.
