news-from-discussions

News From Discussions

A morning briefing that reads who you are from your own files — past conversations, memory, project TODOs — and delivers a news digest tailored to what you've actually been thinking about, not topic tags you picked once and forgot.

Two phases:

1. Checklists — pending TODOs across your projects, printed immediately.
2. News digest — personalized "For You" + general categories, derived from your memory + project context.

Behavior

Phase 1 — Checklists (print immediately)

1. Read a global TODO file if one exists at ~/.claude/TODO.md or ~/TODO.md. Treat it as one project ("global").
2. Auto-discover project TODOs: scan ~/ for direct subdirectories containing a TODO.md (skip hidden dirs and common noise like node_modules, Library, Applications). Each becomes a project section.
3. Present each project as a checklist with pending items first, then completed. Right-align — #N numbers within each section so they line up.
4. End Phase 1 with: "What do you want to work on?"

The user can reference items by project + number, e.g. "global #2" or "myproject #1".

Phase 2 — News Digest (after Phase 1 is fully printed)

1. Gather context — read these (skip any that are missing):
   • Memory files at ~/.claude/projects/*/memory/*.md
   • ~/.claude/news-from-discussions/recent-headlines.md (used to avoid repeats across days)
2. Run ~6 WebSearch queries in parallel:
   • 2 personalized "For You" — derive queries from the user's interests, recent learnings, current domains, and project context inferred from memory + TODOs. Reflect who they are as a person, not literal TODO text.
   • 1 general news headlines
   • 1 AI & tech news
   • 1 niche of strongest interest — pick the topic that shows up most in their memory/projects (e.g. design, biotech, finance, gaming, cooking, parenting). One category, varies per user.
   • 1 community buzz — viral/trending discussions from Hacker News, Reddit, X. Surfaces things that haven't hit mainstream news yet.
3. Curate 3–5 items per category. Deduplicate across sections. Skip any headline already in recent-headlines.md.
4. Print the For You and News Digest sections (format below).
5. Update ~/.claude/news-from-discussions/recent-headlines.md — append today's headlines (date + one-line summary). Trim entries older than 7 days.
6. Suggested actions — Review today's digest. For each item, ask: does this map to a concrete, actionable next step for one of the user's existing projects? If yes, draft a TODO and assign it to the matching project. Print the Suggested TODOs section and wait for approval. The user can:
   • "approve all" — write all suggestions to their respective project TODO.md files
   • "approve [project] #N" — approve specific items
   • "skip" or "skip [project] #N" — discard
   • "edit #N to say X" — modify before writing
   • If no items map to actionable TODOs, skip this section entirely.
7. Optional: write to file. If invoked with --out <path> or the user has set the env var NEWS_FROM_DISCUSSIONS_OUT, also write the full briefing as markdown to that path. This enables downstream delivery (email, Slack, etc.) — see README.