briefing

Briefing Skill

Compile a daily briefing from brain context.

Filing rule: When the briefing creates or updates brain pages, follow skills/_brain-filing-rules.md.

Contract

• Every fact in the briefing includes an inline [Source: slug, updated DATE] citation.
• Meeting participants are resolved against the brain; gaps are explicitly flagged.
• Active deals and action items include deadlines and recency context.
• The briefing is read-only: no brain pages are created or modified unless the user explicitly requests it.
• Stale alerts surface pages relevant to today's context, not just all stale pages.

Phases

1. Hot memory pulse (v0.32). Before composing anything else, run:

   gbrain recall --since-last-run --supersessions --pending --rollup --json
   

   Fold the result into the briefing under a "Brain pulse" section at the top:

   1. Contradictions resolved overnight — the --supersessions output. Lead with these because they're new corrections to your model of the world.
   2. Top mentions — top_entities from --rollup (top 5 entity slugs by fact count in the window).
   3. New facts since last briefing — group the facts array under each entity from the rollup; include kind, notability, and confidence.
   4. Pending consolidation footer — when pending_consolidation_count > 0, note N facts await dream-cycle consolidation so the operator can decide whether to run gbrain dream before reading further.

   The --since-last-run flag advances ~/.gbrain/recall-cursors/<source>.json so the next briefing picks up exactly where this one left off. If you're running this as a cron job, pass --source <slug> or set GBRAIN_SOURCE explicitly — cron doesn't start in your repo-root cwd, so dotfile resolution may miss the right source. Thin-client installs (gbrain init --mcp-only) route through the remote brain transparently.

2. Today's meetings. For each meeting on the calendar:

   • Search gbrain for each participant by name
   • Read their pages from gbrain for compiled_truth context
   • Summarize: who they are, recent timeline, relationship to you

3. Active deals. List deal pages in gbrain filtered to active status:

   • Deadlines approaching in the next 7 days
   • Recent timeline entries (last 7 days)

4. Time-sensitive threads. Open items from timeline entries:

   • Items with deadlines in the next 48 hours
   • Follow-ups that are overdue

5. Recent changes. Pages updated in the last 24 hours:

   • What changed and why (read timeline entries from gbrain)

6. People in play. List person pages in gbrain sorted by recency:

   • Updated in last 7 days
   • Have high activity (many recent timeline entries)

7. Stale alerts. From gbrain health check:

   • Pages flagged as stale that are relevant to today's meetings