morning-update

morning-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pbeens/obsidian-agents.md. It costs 70 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a dated morning note from recent Gmail, the day's calendar, and #today items in Obsidian notes. Obsidian is a note-taking app, and the note combines information from these sources into one start-of-day update.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a daily morning briefing with important email, scheduled events, and recently recorded tasks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to check several apps and recent notes separately when preparing for the day.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or update a daily morning briefing with important email, scheduled events, and recently recorded tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pbeens/obsidian-agents.md/morning-update
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pbeens/obsidian-agents.md --skill morning-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pbeens/obsidian-agents.md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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 $0.00070 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf17399b135a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

morning-update 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 12d 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/morning-update/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Morning Update

Use this skill to build a daily YYYY-MM-DD Morning Update note in Daily Notes/.

Purpose

Create one concise note that surfaces:

  • critical Gmail from the last 24 hours
  • all calendar events for the target day
  • #today items from notes dated in the last three calendar days

Workflow

  1. Determine the target date in the user's local timezone.
  2. Create or update Daily Notes/YYYY-MM-DD Morning Update.md.
  3. Gather Gmail items from the last 24 hours.
  4. Gather calendar events for the target date.
  5. Scan Obsidian notes from the target date and previous two days for #today.
  6. Write the note with clear sections and preserve source wording where relevant.

Gmail

  • Treat "critical" conservatively.
  • Prioritize unread, starred, important, or directly actionable mail from the last 24 hours.
  • Include sender, subject, received time, and a brief why-it-matters note.
  • Format each Gmail item as a checklist item.
  • include the Gmail message or thread URL for each critical item when available
  • if a direct URL is unavailable, include the message/thread ID and subject as a fallback
  • If an item is ambiguous, include it under a review-oriented sublist instead of guessing.
  • Do not invent urgency.

Calendar

  • List every event for the target day as a checklist item.
  • Include start/end time, title, location, attendees, and meeting link when available.
  • Keep all-day events visible.
  • If the calendar is empty, say so explicitly.

Obsidian Scan

  • Search markdown notes in the vault for #today items in notes dated within the target day and the previous two calendar days.
  • Use the note's date-only filename when present, otherwise use created frontmatter if available.
  • Copy #today task text exactly as written.
  • Preserve inline hashtags verbatim.
  • Include the source note path next to each copied item.

Note Format

Use this structure:

  1. YAML frontmatter with created: YYYY-MM-DD, source: "[[skills/morning-update/SKILL.md]]", and tags: [Morning-Update]
  2. Overview
  3. Critical Gmail
  4. Calendar Today
  5. #today Items
  6. Follow-Ups
  7. Do not include an H1 title if the filename already serves as the note title.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 12d ago First seen · 78 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A cf17399b135a

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morning-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository pbeens/obsidian-agents.md (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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