Agent skill

Daily Brief

by amd in amd/gaia

Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers.

MITAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Daily Brief

skills CLI
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill daily-brief -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install amd/gaia daily-brief --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/daily-brief .claude/skills/daily-brief && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
daily-brief
GitHub stars
1.6k
Token cost
~680 tokens
SKILL.md length
333 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers.

  • Works in 5 steps: Gather each section independently. Run… → Tolerate partial failure. If one source… → Cut hard. Three items per section,… → …
  • The user asks for a briefing
  • SKILL.md covers Configure, Procedure, Honest limits and Fork this
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Daily Brief is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers. Use when the user asks for a briefing, a digest, a rundown, or "what do I need to know today".

Its SKILL.md is about 680 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Media & Creative. The repository describes itself as: Build AI agents for your PC. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for a briefing
  • What do I need to know today

Example prompts

  • “what do I need to know today”
  • “/daily-brief”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Gather each section independently. Run the searches and fetches for every
  2. Tolerate partial failure. If one source is unreachable, produce the brief
  3. Cut hard. Three items per section, maximum. If nothing in a section is
  4. Write it in this shape
  5. Keep it under 250 words. A brief that takes ten minutes to read is not a

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 05fb50b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Daily Brief loads about 680 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 333 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~680

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from amd/gaia at commit 05fb50b, republished under its MIT licence (© amd). 333 words, ~680 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/daily-brief/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
daily-brief
description
Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers. Use when the user asks for a briefing, a digest, a rundown, or "what do I need to know today".
license
MIT
version
1.0.0

Daily Brief

The composition example: several independent sources collapsed into one thing worth reading. The hard part is not gathering — it is cutting.

Configure

The user picks the sections. A good default:

SectionSource
Headlinessearch_web on the user's 2–3 tracked topics
Tracked pagesfetch_page on specific URLs they follow
Their own itemsrecall of open commitments and reminders

Procedure

  1. Gather each section independently. Run the searches and fetches for every configured section before writing anything.
  2. Tolerate partial failure. If one source is unreachable, produce the brief without it and add a one-line "couldn't reach X" note. A brief that fails entirely because one feed was down is useless.
  3. Cut hard. Three items per section, maximum. If nothing in a section is worth reading, drop the section and say "nothing new" — do not pad.
  4. Write it in this shape:
    • One line up top — the single thing that matters most today.
    • Per section — up to three bullets, each one sentence, each with its link.
    • Your items — open commitments from memory, with dates.
    • Gaps — sources that failed, in one line.
  5. Keep it under 250 words. A brief that takes ten minutes to read is not a brief.

Honest limits

  • It is not delivered to you — you ask for it. The flagship version of this idea (arrives at 7am as a voice note on Telegram) needs two things GAIA does not have yet: gaia schedule add wired to run a skill directly (the flag exists but is rejected — see #1019), and Telegram voice-note support. Text-to-speech already exists as the text_to_speech agent tool. See the guide for what would unblock it.
  • Headlines come from search_web (DuckDuckGo), not a curated news API, so coverage is uneven. Say where a claim came from.
  • The "your items" section needs memory enabled; drop it silently if not.

Fork this

Swap the sections for your morning: a status page you fetch, a repo's releases page, and your own task list. The gather-tolerate-cut-write skeleton is the reusable part.

© amd, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in hub/skills/daily-brief of amd/gaia.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 05fb50b

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Questions about Daily Brief

What does Daily Brief do?

Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers. Daily Brief is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Compose a short briefing from several sources at once — headlines, tracked topics, and the user's own open items — as one digest instead of separate answers.

When should I use Daily Brief?

Daily Brief fits situations like: the user asks for a briefing; what do I need to know today.

How do I install Daily Brief in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill daily-brief -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/daily-brief in amd/gaia) into .claude/skills/daily-brief in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Daily Brief in Codex?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill daily-brief -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/daily-brief in amd/gaia) into .agents/skills/daily-brief in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Daily Brief in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill daily-brief -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/daily-brief, .gemini/skills/daily-brief, .github/skills/daily-brief and .opencode/skills/daily-brief in your project.

What does Daily Brief need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Daily Brief is instructions for the agent only.

Does Daily Brief access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Daily Brief safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Daily Brief use?

Daily Brief is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Daily Brief use?

About 680 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Daily Brief?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Daily Brief: Guizang Social Cards (op7418/guizang-social-card-skill, 7.4k stars), Weekly Changelog Video (heygen-com/hyperframes, 59k stars), Anthropic Brand Styling (anthropics/skills, 180k stars) and Native Subtitle Quote Image (chengyi-ai/native-subtitle-quote-image, 2.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Daily Brief?

amd (a GitHub organization) maintains it in amd/gaia, which has 1,580 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: amd/gaia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.