Morning Briefing

Morning Briefing

Once a day (default 08:00 weekdays, configurable) the scheduler fires a synthetic prompt at the gateway. The gateway formats it as Heartbeat job: morning-briefing\n\nPayload:\n{...} and routes it to the session the same way /jobs heartbeat ticks are routed.

What the session does on receipt

1. Treat the prompt like any other inbound message — same tier classifier, same orchestrator routing.
2. Read today's calendar (the data/calendar.md mirror kept fresh by the google-calendar Fitting's sync, or the calendar.py CLI for ad-hoc lookups). Skip if the Calendar Fitting isn't selected.
3. Read open Trello tasks (the trello data source's "A Fazer" list). Skip if the Trello Fitting isn't selected.
4. Compose a Slack message — events first (chronological), then up to two task suggestions with one-sentence reasons each. Skip any section whose data source is empty. Skip a "blocking" section unless a real blocker exists (no fabrication).
5. Post via mcp__claude_ai_Slack__slack_send_message to the orchestrator's report_channel. If report_channel is empty, log to stdout and stop — don't search Slack for a channel.
6. If both calendar and tasks are empty, post a one-line acknowledgement ("Quiet day.") rather than staying silent — briefings have a fixed cadence and the principal expects proof-of-life.

Hard rules

• Under 200 words. No filler ("Good morning!", "Have a great day!").
• Informational only. Do not offer to do work autonomously here. If the principal wants to act, they reply in Slack and the existing heartbeat approval flow (Phase 2 T4) takes it from there.
• Don't post anywhere except the configured Slack target.

Configuration knobs

• GARRISON_BRIEFING_TIME (default 08:00) — local fire time.
• GARRISON_BRIEFING_WEEKDAYS_ONLY (default true) — Mon–Fri.
• Re-running setup with new env values replaces the cron entry by id (morning-briefing). No need to remove the old job manually.

Manual trigger

node apm_modules/_local/scheduler/scripts/scheduler.mjs run-now morning-briefing

Useful for empty-state tests and same-day re-fires.