brain-daily

brain-daily is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SanderMoon/local-brain. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A daily planning workflow for a Local Brain workspace, a personal system that stores projects, tasks, priorities, and notes. It gathers overdue, due, active, blocked, completed, and inbox work into a morning briefing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work, reviewing priorities, checking deadlines, or asking what to focus on during the day.
Why use it?
It turns scattered task information into a short view of what needs attention. It also checks whether the workspace contains anything to plan before preparing a briefing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandermoon/local-brain/brain-daily
Any agent
npx skills add SanderMoon/local-brain --skill brain-daily
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SanderMoon/local-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,072 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.01072
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1fe089e0f3ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain-daily 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 6d 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.

pkg/skillscatalog/skills/brain-daily/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

brain-daily: Daily Planning Workflow

Start the day with a structured overview of the user's Local Brain workspace. This is the "engage" phase — the daily habit that keeps work intentional.

Trigger Phrases

  • "Good morning", "start my day", "morning briefing"
  • "What should I focus on today?"
  • "What's on my plate?" / "Catch me up" / "What's due?"

Pre-flight Check

Call get_brain_overview first. If the brain is empty (no projects, no dump items), do not run a briefing on nothing. Instead suggest:

"Your brain is empty — let's set it up first. Tell me about what you're working on."

This naturally transitions to the brain-setup workflow.

Workflow

Step 1 — Fetch the Briefing

Call get_daily_briefing to retrieve:

  • Overdue tasks (most urgent)
  • Tasks due today
  • High-priority open tasks
  • In-progress work
  • Blocked items
  • Recent completions
  • Inbox items awaiting refile

Step 2 — Summarize Clearly

Present a concise, scannable summary. Do not dump raw data.

Project Overview Table

Always start with a project overview table showing the distribution of tasks. Use the project_summaries data:

| Project            | Open | Backlog | Total |
|--------------------|------|---------|-------|
| agentic-project    |   15 |       6 |    21 |
| nsa2d              |    8 |       3 |    11 |
| ...                |  ... |     ... |   ... |

Open = actionable tasks (status: open, in-progress, blocked). Backlog = parked for later (status: backlog). This distinction is critical — backlog items are not on the user's plate today.

Actionable Items

After the table, list actionable items grouped by urgency. Only show items with status open, in-progress, or blocked — never backlog:

  1. Overdue — flag prominently with task IDs and due dates
  2. Due today — list with IDs
  3. In progress — what is already underway
  4. High priority (open) — P1 tasks that are open (not backlog), without due dates
  5. Blocked — items needing unblock

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 6d ago First seen · 113 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1fe089e0f3ab

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brain-daily is a skill published in the GitHub repository SanderMoon/local-brain (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,072 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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