today

A read-only daily summary command that shows the day’s main focus, pending decisions, active warnings, recent log entries, and the next calendar event when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of the day to see your anchor task, up to three urgent decisions and warnings, the last three session notes, and the next event within 24 hours.
Why use it?
It gathers information spread across several files into a short view, so you do not have to inspect each source separately.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/arcassystems/founderos/today
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ARCASSystems/FounderOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 853 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00043 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56634500e403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

today scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/today.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Today

One-screen view of what matters today. No scrolling. No prose. Read-only.

Procedure (in order)

  1. Read cadence/daily-anchors.md. Extract the ## Today: section: anchor line + top 3 tasks.

  2. Read context/decisions.md. Extract the top 3 Pending decisions by deadline proximity.

  3. Read brain/flags.md. Extract active flags. Top 3.

  4. Read brain/log.md. Extract the first line of the last 3 entries (newest on top).

  5. If a calendar MCP is available (Google Calendar, Outlook), fetch the next scheduled event within the next 24 hours. Otherwise skip that line.

  6. Render the output as a single fenced block, exactly this structure. No commentary before, after, or around it.

    TODAY - <YYYY-MM-DD>
    Anchor: <anchor line from daily-anchors>
    
    OPEN DECISIONS (top 3 by deadline)
    - <title> - <deadline>
    - <title> - <deadline>
    - <title> - <deadline>
    
    ACTIVE FLAGS
    - <flag name>
    - <flag name>
    - <flag name>
    
    LAST 3 SESSIONS
    - <first line of session entry 1>
    - <first line of session entry 2>
    - <first line of session entry 3>
    
    NEXT: <calendar event title at HH:MM> | <"no scheduled event next 24h">
    
  7. If a section has nothing, write the header and one line: none open. Do not skip the section.

  8. Day-one exception: if the anchor is [NOT SET] and the log holds one entry or fewer, do NOT render the fenced block. Reply instead, outside any block: Nothing on today yet - that is normal on day one. Tell me the one thing you have to get done and I will make it today's anchor. Placeholders rendered as a dashboard read as broken; a question reads as a start.

What counts as progress here

Two behavior rules on what this brief reports. They change what the founder sees on a busy day, so they are not stylistic.

Read back what moved, not what got closed. The LAST 3 SESSIONS lines name outcomes: a reply that came in, a decision that got made, a thing that shipped, a payment that landed. Not "three items closed". Closing items is motion, and motion is easy to generate and easy to mistake for progress. If a day genuinely moved nothing, the honest line is that nothing moved. A brief that always looks productive is a brief nobody believes by the second week.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 56634500e403

Subscribe to this mod's changes

today is a command published in the GitHub repository ARCASSystems/FounderOS (5 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 853 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.