morning-brief

morning-brief is a skill for Claude Code from TheCraigHewitt/cowork-starter-pack. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled daily summary that combines your calendar, email, and chat messages into one short page.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps you review today's events, find important messages, and choose your top three priorities.
Why use it?
It removes the need to check several apps and decide what matters before starting work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cowork-starter-pack plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps you review today's events, find important messages, and choose your top three priorities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thecraighewitt/cowork-starter-pack/morning-brief
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 TheCraigHewitt/cowork-starter-pack --skill morning-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/cowork-starter-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cowork-starter-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,143 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 $0.00069 $0.01143
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 12d ago against content hash c144469d33f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

morning-brief 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-brief/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Morning Brief

Turn calendar + inbox + messaging chaos into one readable page the user can scan while drinking coffee.

Before starting

Read these in order. Skip any that don't exist.

  1. context/about-me.md — who the user is
  2. context/preferences.md — how they want reports formatted
  3. context/voice.md — only if the brief includes any drafted messages

If none of those exist, tell the user this skill works better with context files set up, and offer to help create them. Then proceed with sensible defaults.

What to produce

A single markdown file, saved to /output/morning-brief-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md, with four sections:

  1. Today at a glance — the day's calendar, one line per event. Highlight the first event and any back-to-backs.
  2. Inbox that matters — emails received since the last brief (or the last 18 hours if no prior brief exists) that meet at least one of: (a) from a named priority contact, (b) explicit question directed at the user, (c) deadline in the next 48 hours, (d) reply from an active thread the user started. Summarize each in one line. Skip everything else.
  3. Messages worth seeing — same filter applied to Slack, Teams, or whichever messaging connector is wired up. Only DMs and @mentions, never channel noise.
  4. Top three priorities — your best read of what the user should focus on today, based on the calendar, the inbox, and anything flagged in prior briefs. One line each, with a one-line "why."

What not to do

  • Do not include every email. If the list is longer than 8 items, you've set the bar too low — raise it.
  • Do not draft replies. This is a brief, not an action.
  • Do not include marketing emails, newsletters, automated notifications, or CC-ed threads where the user isn't the primary recipient.
  • Do not speculate on priorities without evidence. If you can't justify a priority from the data, leave it out.

Inputs (usually connectors)

  • Google Calendar or equivalent (required)
  • Gmail or equivalent (required)
  • Slack / Teams / other messaging (optional but valuable)
  • Prior morning briefs in /output/ (optional — use to track continuity)

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A c144469d33f3

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morning-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/cowork-starter-pack (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,143 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 2026-08-31.

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