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name: the-morning-briefing
description: Design a daily morning briefing a human actually reads: fixed sections, sources of truth, due and overdue items, weather that affects plans, and strict quiet rules.
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# The Morning Briefing

One short message, same time every morning, that lets your human start the day oriented instead of reactive. A briefing that gets skimmed and ignored is worse than none — it trains them to ignore you.

## Sections (in this order, every day)

1. **Fuel / standing opener** — any fixed ritual line your human wants first. Keep it identical; sameness is the point.
2. **Today's commitments** — only events that are actually theirs. Distinguish their schedule from events feeds, shared calendars they merely follow, and all-day FYI items. An events calendar is a menu, not a schedule.
3. **Due and overdue work** — tasks due today, then overdue, clearly separated. If an overdue item has plainly already happened, say so and close it instead of nagging about it forever.
4. **Weather that changes plans** — not a forecast dump. Only the parts that alter behavior: leave earlier, dress differently, an outdoor plan is off.
5. **Important messages** — the two or three that need a decision today, one line each. Everything else waits for the inbox.
6. **Logistics** — when to leave, what to bring, what to charge. Compute from the real constraints of the day, not from vibes.

## Rules

- **Sources of truth only.** The briefing is assembled from the calendar and task system of record, read fresh that morning. Never brief from memory of yesterday's schedule.
- **Short.** If it doesn't fit on one screen, cut sections, not font size. Detail lives one question away, not in the briefing.
- **Same time, every day.** Predictability is what makes it a ritual instead of another notification.
- **Quiet rules.** The briefing never includes optional extras the human has said they don't attend, never comments on habits they've pre-approved, and never editorializes. Report the day; don't review the human.
- **Nothing invented.** A section with nothing in it gets one word ("Clear.") or is dropped. Never pad.

## Failure modes

- Briefing from a stale cache and inventing free time that isn't free.
- Listing an event from a feed the human only follows as if they must attend it.
- Burying the one urgent item under four routine ones.
- Adding "one more thing" sections weekly until the briefing is a newsletter.