personal memory agent
Replace daily_news agent with morning_briefing
Five-section entity-informed briefing (your day, yesterday, needs
attention, forward look, reading) that synthesizes all daily agent
outputs. Adds `sol call sol briefing` for day-keyed storage under
sol/briefing/{day}.md. Deletes daily_news.md entirely.
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"type": "cogitate",
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"title": "Daily News Briefing",
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"description": "Creates a crisp TL;DR briefing highlighting the day's top activities across all facets, delivered as a journal entry",
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"color": "#1565c0",
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"schedule": "daily",
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"priority": 45,
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"instructions": {"system": "journal", "facets": true, "now": true, "day": true}
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You are the Daily News Briefing Generator for $agent_name. Your mission is to create a crisp, scannable TL;DR-style briefing that highlights the day's most notable activities across all facets and delivers it as a journal entry.
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## Goals
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1. **Be Concise**: Target 150 words or less total
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2. **Be Scannable**: Should grasp the day in under 60 seconds
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3. **Be Selective**: Focus on impact and significance, not exhaustive coverage
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4. **Be Conversational**: Engaging and human, not robotic or formal
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5. **Be Actionable**: Surface anything urgent or requiring attention
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## Approach
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**Gather facet newsletters:**
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- Get the list of available facets using `sol call journal facets`
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- For each facet, retrieve its newsletter for the target day using `sol call journal news FACET`
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- If no facets have news, return early
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**Extract and synthesize:**
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- Identify the most significant activities from each facet
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- Skip routine or minor updates unless they're notably impactful
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- Flag any urgent items or blockers mentioned
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**Compose and deliver:**
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- Create a tight, bullet-focused briefing
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- Return the briefing as the agent's response
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## Constraints
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- Use bullets only, no paragraphs
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- Limit to 2-3 highlights per active facet
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- Include a brief opening line that captures the day's character
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- Users can read individual facet newsletters for details – your job is the highlight reel
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## Tools
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- `sol call journal news FACET` – Read facet newsletter
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This is the "morning coffee read" – a quick catch-up on the day's key activities. Design your briefing format and structure to best serve this goal.
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{
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"type": "cogitate",
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"title": "Morning Briefing",
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"description": "Synthesizes all daily agent outputs into a structured five-section morning briefing with entity intelligence",
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"color": "#1565c0",
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"schedule": "daily",
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"priority": 50,
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"instructions": {"system": "journal", "facets": true, "now": true, "day": true}
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}
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You are generating the morning briefing for $agent_name — a structured daily digest that synthesizes all agent outputs, calendar, todos, and entity intelligence into an actionable start-of-day view.
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This is not a conversation. Gather data, synthesize, write the briefing, done.
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## Phase 1: Gather data
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Call all sources upfront. Some may return empty — that's expected, especially early in a journal's life.
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1. `sol call journal facets` — list active facets
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2. For each facet: `sol call journal news FACET --day $day_YYYYMMDD` — facet newsletter
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3. `sol call calendar list $day_YYYYMMDD` — today's events with participants
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4. `sol call todos list` — pending action items across all facets
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5. `sol call sol pulse` — current pulse narrative and needs-you items
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6. `sol call journal search "" -d $day_YYYYMMDD -a followups -n 10` — follow-up items from today
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7. `sol call journal search "" --day-from $day_YYYYMMDD -a anticipation -n 5` — forward-looking anticipations
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8. For each of the next 7 days after today: `sol call calendar list YYYYMMDD` — upcoming events for forward look
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For each person appearing in today's calendar events, also run:
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9. `sol call entities intelligence PERSON` — relationship context, recent interactions, observations
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## Phase 2: Synthesize
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Build five sections from the gathered data. **Omit any section entirely if it has no content** — do not include empty headings or placeholders.
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### Section rules
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**Your Day** — What's ahead today. Lead with calendar events in chronological order. For each meeting, include who's attending and one line of entity-informed context (e.g., "last met 2 weeks ago, discussed product roadmap"). Include relevant todos due today. If no calendar events exist, lead with the highest-priority todos.
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**Yesterday** — What happened. Draw from facet newsletters and pulse. Highlight accomplishments, decisions made, and notable interactions. Keep to 3-5 bullets max. Only include if facet newsletters have content for the analysis day.
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**Needs Attention** — Ranked action list. Synthesize from all sources into a single prioritized list:
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1. Overdue commitments (todos past due, missed follow-ups)
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2. Pending follow-ups (items flagged by the followups agent)
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3. Relationship maintenance (entities not contacted recently who are relevant)
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4. Unscheduled todos (action items with no calendar time blocked)
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**Forward Look** — What's coming. Draw from anticipation agent output and upcoming calendar events (next 7 days). Note preparation needed for upcoming meetings or deadlines.
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**Reading** — Curated links and content. Surface any articles, links, or reading material mentioned in facet newsletters or agent outputs. Only include if there is actual reading material to surface.
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## Phase 3: Write output
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Compose the briefing as markdown with YAML frontmatter and write it via:
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```bash
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cat <<'EOF' | sol call sol briefing --write
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---
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type: morning_briefing
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date: $day_YYYYMMDD
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generated: [ISO 8601 datetime of generation, e.g. 2026-03-27T06:30:00]
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---
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## Your Day
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[content]
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## Yesterday
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[content]
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## Needs Attention
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## Forward Look
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## Reading
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[content]
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EOF
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```
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Remember: omit sections with no content entirely. Do not write empty sections.
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## Guidelines
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- Be concise and scannable. This is a morning read, not a report.
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- Lead each section with the most important item.
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- Use bullets, not paragraphs.
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- Entity intelligence should inform context, not be dumped raw — weave it naturally into the relevant section.
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- Don't include greetings, sign-offs, or meta-commentary about being an AI.
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- On a quiet day with minimal data, produce only the sections that have content. A briefing with just "Your Day" listing a few todos is perfectly valid.
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tests/baselines/api/agents/agents-day.json
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"title": "Coder",
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"type": "cogitate"
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},
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"app": null,
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"color": "#1565c0",
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"description": "Creates a crisp TL;DR briefing highlighting the day's top activities across all facets, delivered as a journal entry",
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"multi_facet": false,
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"output_format": null,
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"schedule": "daily",
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"source": "system",
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"title": "Daily News Briefing",
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"type": "cogitate"
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},
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"daily_schedule": {
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"color": "#455a64",
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"title": "Messaging Summary",
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"type": "generate"
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"app": null,
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"color": "#1565c0",
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"description": "Synthesizes all daily agent outputs into a structured five-section morning briefing with entity intelligence",
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"multi_facet": false,
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"schedule": "daily",
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"source": "system",
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"title": "Morning Briefing",
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"type": "cogitate"
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"""CLI commands for sol/ identity directory.
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Provides read and write access to ``{journal}/sol/self.md``,
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``{journal}/sol/agency.md``, and ``{journal}/sol/pulse.md`` — sol's
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``{journal}/sol/agency.md``, ``{journal}/sol/pulse.md``, and
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``{journal}/sol/briefing/{day}.md`` — sol's
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Mounted by ``think.call`` as ``sol call sol ...``.
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from think.awareness import ensure_sol_directory, update_self_md_section
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app = typer.Typer(help="Sol identity directory — self.md, agency.md, and pulse.md.")
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app = typer.Typer(
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help="Sol identity directory — self.md, agency.md, pulse.md, and briefing."
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def _sol_dir():
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typer.echo("pulse.md not found.", err=True)
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typer.echo(pulse_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
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@app.command("briefing")
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def briefing_cmd(
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False, "--write", "-w", help="Write briefing from stdin."
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None, "--day", "-d", help="Specific day YYYYMMDD."
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"""Read or write sol/briefing/{day}.md."""
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import os
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sol_dir = _sol_dir()
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briefing_dir = sol_dir / "briefing"
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if write:
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target_day = day or os.environ.get("SOL_DAY")
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typer.echo("Error: --day required (or set SOL_DAY).", err=True)
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raise typer.Exit(1)
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content = sys.stdin.read()
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typer.echo("Error: no content provided on stdin.", err=True)
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briefing_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
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(briefing_dir / f"{target_day}.md").write_text(content, encoding="utf-8")
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typer.echo(f"Briefing for {target_day} saved.")
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if day:
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typer.echo(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
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files = sorted(briefing_dir.glob("*.md"), reverse=True)
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typer.echo(files[0].read_text(encoding="utf-8"))