What is syft-daily-briefing?

A Syft CLI workflow for creating a personalized daily news briefing from topics a user follows. Syft is a command-line tool that collects news, while the agent organizes and writes the briefing.

Creating dated briefing files, coverage watchlists, and optional news pools or editorial notes. It is also used for profile-aware news selection and richer story coverage.

It removes the need to gather followed topics, group related stories, and assemble a daily edition by hand. It can also flag gaps in topic coverage.

syft-daily-briefing — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Solatrader

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 Solatrader/syft-news-skills --skill syft-daily-briefing

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Solatrader/syft-news-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,090 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	$0.00073	$0.02090
Opus 5.5	$0.00029	$0.00836
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00418
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00209

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 70b58e1c970f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

syft-daily-briefing 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 2mo 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.

.github/skills/syft-daily-briefing/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Syft Daily Briefing

Use this skill when the user wants a daily briefing generated directly from Syft CLI plus the agent's own model.

Inputs

Prefer to have these available first:

profiles/following_topics.md
profiles/profile_summary.md
optional profiles/user_guidance_rulebook.md or another confirmed guidance file
optional profiles/raw_interest_block.txt if the profile skill generated a heuristic interest map
optional explicit aversion notes if the user has provided them later

If they do not exist yet, suggest running syft-profile-summary first.

What this skill produces

Create:

briefings/daily_briefing_<date>.md
briefings/coverage_watchlist_<date>.md
optionally briefings/raw_news_pool_<date>.md
optionally briefings/aggregated_news_pool_<date>.md
optionally briefings/editorial_notes_<date>.md

Workflow

Check Syft availability. Run syft status.
Read following topics with ids. Run syft following. Preserve both:
- the topic title
- the topic id
Topic ids matter because they are the bridge from a user's declared interest list to syft top --topic-id.
Pull a first-pass global pool. Start with:
- syft top --days <N> --limit <M> --rich
Do pool triage before writing anything. Split results into:
- keep: structurally important or clearly high-match
- maybe: potentially useful but not yet clear
- discard: promo, coupon, generic shopping, shallow affiliate content, obvious noise
Normalize multilingual titles before selection. If titles are in multiple languages, first translate or paraphrase them into one working language for your own reasoning. Do not let language fragmentation hide a strong event cluster.
Build an event-level pool, not an article pile. Merge duplicates when they describe the same event, actor move, or causal development. Preserve factual anchors during the merge.
Build an interest coverage map before final selection. Use following_topics.md plus profile_summary.md to list:
- main structural axes
- identity-defining hobby / culture axes
- thin but still important side interests

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 214 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 70b58e1c970f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

syft-daily-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Solatrader/syft-news-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,090 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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