daily-brief

daily-brief is a skill for Claude Code from AfterRealm/father-time. It costs 71 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A morning briefing for Claude Code that combines the current time, weekday or weekend status, peak-hour information, schedule outlook, and recorded work patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning heavy work around peak hours, reviewing your usual session habits, and choosing a practical work schedule for the day.
Why use it?
It gives you a quick view of the day before you decide what work to do and when to do it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the father-time plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Planning heavy work around peak hours, reviewing your usual session habits, and choosing a practical work schedule for the day.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/afterrealm/father-time/daily-brief
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AfterRealm/father-time --skill daily-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AfterRealm/father-time

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install father-time, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 505 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00051

Measured 11d ago against content hash b4dd11683d0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daily-brief 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 11d 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.

skills/daily-brief/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Daily Briefing

Provide a concise start-of-day briefing to help the user plan their Claude Code usage.

What to Include

1. Time Check

  • Current time in user's timezone
  • What day of the week it is
  • Weekend or weekday

2. Peak Hour Status

  • Are we currently in peak hours?
  • When does the next peak window start/end?
  • Optimal work windows for today

3. Schedule Outlook

Weekday template:

Today's Peak: [start] – [end] in your timezone
Right now: [PEAK/OFF-PEAK]
Best heavy-work windows: Before [peak start] and after [peak end]

Weekend template:

No peak throttling today. Work freely all day.

4. Activity Pattern Insight

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/activity_patterns.json and note:

  • "You typically start around [time] on [weekday]s"
  • "You've been averaging [N] sessions per week"
  • Any notable patterns (night owl, morning person, weekend warrior)

5. Work Recommendation

Based on current time + peak status:

  • If it's pre-peak: "You have [N hours] before peak starts. Good time for heavy work."
  • If it's peak: "Peak hours active. Light work recommended, or wait [N hours] for off-peak."
  • If it's post-peak: "Peak is over. Clear for heavy work until tomorrow."
  • If it's late night: "Deep off-peak. Best time for marathon sessions."

Response Format

Keep it tight — this should be a quick glance, not a report:

Good [morning/afternoon/evening]. [Day], [Date].

[PEAK/OFF-PEAK] — [status detail]
Heavy work window: [optimal times]
You usually work [pattern insight].

[One-line recommendation]
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. 11d ago First seen · 66 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A b4dd11683d0a

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daily-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository AfterRealm/father-time (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.