Daily Brief Operations Skill

An operational cheat sheet that lets Claude run, regenerate, and debug the DailyBrief daily digest pipeline.

AutomationIntermediate★ 361⑂ 204AI score 8/10Last updated: Sep 26, 2026

What it does

Gives Claude the operational knowledge of the DailyBrief pipeline: RSS/API fetchers → pluggable LLM enrichment → single-page HTML digest.
Provides a command table with expected time and LLM cost (npm run daily, dry-run, render, regen-trading, regen-enrich <cat:sub>, quota-report) so logic is never re-implemented ad hoc.
Includes a "where to change what" file map: sources in sources.config.json, tab labels and caps in lib/output/render.ts, prompts in lib/ai/enrich.ts, scheduler in scripts/install.mjs.
Defines an ordered diagnostic flow: scheduler state (Windows Task Scheduler / launchd / cron) → logs/daily-*.log → logs/llm-calls.jsonl with errorCategory triage.
Captures institutional knowledge on recurring failures: Cloudflare WAF on LinuxDo, blank community tab selector bug, empty trading watchlist retry, non-English tweets slipping through.

Who it's for

Anyone self-hosting the DailyBrief repo to get an automated morning digest.
Operators of local-scheduler + LLM summarization pipelines who want Claude to own the incident routine.
Builders looking for a solid reference pattern for an "ops manual" style skill.

Example uses

"Today's report never appeared" → Claude checks the scheduled task's last result, then tails the last 40 lines of today's local-date log to pinpoint the failure.
"The finance tab is missing summaries" → run npm run quota-report, then top up with npm run regen-enrich finance:news instead of a full rerun.
"Add a new RSS source and disable a flaky one" → edit only sources.config.json using enabled: false plus a notes field, then verify with npm run sources.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/leiting-eric/DailyBrief.git && cd DailyBrief && npm install && node scripts/install.mjs --global

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Make sure Node.js (18+ recommended) and git are installed.
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/leiting-eric/DailyBrief.git
Enter the project and install dependencies: cd DailyBrief && npm install
The skill already ships at .claude/skills/daily-brief/, so opening Claude Code inside the project root picks it up automatically.
To use it from anywhere, copy it globally: cp -r .claude/skills/daily-brief ~/.claude/skills/ (PowerShell: Copy-Item -Recurse .claude\skills\daily-brief $HOME\.claude\skills\).
Create .env.local and set REPORT_TZ and LLM_BACKEND if needed (unset means the claude CLI backend).
Run npm run dry-run first to verify fetching without spending LLM calls.
Register the daily trigger with node scripts/install.mjs --global --at 08:00; remove it later with node scripts/uninstall.mjs.

View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT