What is start-my-day?

A daily planning workflow that reviews yesterday’s notes, active projects, pending inbox items, and selected AI updates before creating today’s daily note.

It is for starting a workday, carrying over incomplete tasks, setting priorities, connecting tasks to projects, and recording the plan in a personal knowledge base.

It gathers unfinished work and current context so important tasks and stale projects are less likely to be overlooked.

start-my-day — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by MarsZ42

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.

Any agent

npx skills add MarsZ42/OrbitOS --skill start-my-day

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MarsZ42/OrbitOS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,392 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00018	$0.01392
Opus 5	$0.00009	$0.00696
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00278
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00139

Measured 10d ago against content hash 47575b73b8ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-my-day 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 10d 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.

CN/.agents/skills/start-my-day/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Daily Planner for OrbitOS.

OBJECTIVE

Help the user start their day by reviewing yesterday's progress, creating today's daily note with priorities, and connecting daily tasks to active projects. Generate the daily log directly without intermediate plan files.

WORKFLOW

Step 1: Gather Context (Silent)

Get Today's Date
- Determine current date (YYYY-MM-DD format)
Read Yesterday's Daily Note
- If exists, read 10_日记/[yesterday].md
- Extract incomplete tasks (unchecked - [ ] items)
- Note what was worked on
Find Active Projects
- Search 20_项目/ for notes with status: active
- For each active project, note:
  - Current phase and status
  - Pending tasks in Actions section
  - Last update date (to identify stale projects 3+ days)
  - Any due dates or time-sensitive items
Check Inbox
- List files in 00_收件箱/ with status: pending
- Count items waiting to be processed
Fetch AI Content (run in parallel)
- Run /ai-newsletters workflow to get today's AI newsletter digest
- Run /ai-products workflow to get today's AI product launches
- Both skills will return condensed summaries for /start-my-day context
- Store top 5 content opportunities and top 5 product launches
Analyze & Prioritize
- Identify time-sensitive items (deadlines, events)
- Find projects not touched in 3+ days (stale)
- Determine logical next steps for each active project

Step 2: Ask User Input (Interactive)

Use the AskUserQuestion tool to gather:

Question 1: "今天的主要目标是什么?"

Options based on active projects + "其他"

Question 2: "有什么新想法或任务吗?"

Free text input for capturing to inbox

Question 3: "有什么阻碍或顾虑吗?"

Free text input

Step 3: Create Today's Daily Note

Check if today's note exists at 10_日记/YYYY-MM-DD.md
- If exists: read and update (preserve existing content)
- If not: create from template 99_系统/模板/Daily_Note.md
Populate the daily note:
- 待办事项: Carryover incomplete tasks from yesterday, then user's focus, then project next actions
- 日志: Leave empty for user
- 备注: Add recommendations (time-sensitive items, stale projects, inbox count)
- AI 摘要: Add summary section with top content from newsletters and product launches
  - Include top 3-5 content opportunities from AI newsletters
  - Include top 3-5 product launch opportunities
  - Each item MUST include a markdown link to the original source: [Title](url)
  - Add clear links to full digests in respective folders: [[50_资源/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD-Digest]] and [[50_资源/产品发布/YYYY-MM-DD-Digest]]
- 相关项目: List active projects with current status

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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.

10d ago First seen · 160 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 47575b73b8ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-my-day is a skill published in the GitHub repository MarsZ42/OrbitOS (970 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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