Agent skill

Start The Day

by vellum-ai in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Start The Day

skills CLI
$ npx skills add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill start-the-day -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install vellum-ai/vellum-assistant start-the-day --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/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/start-the-day .claude/skills/start-the-day && 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
start-the-day
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~931 tokens
SKILL.md length
412 words
Files
2 (incl. assets)
Skills in repo
108
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice.

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Scope & composition, Capability awareness, Briefing sections and Tone, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Start The Day is an agent skill from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice. The general-purpose morning brief; richer work or admin digests compose it as their general layer.

Its SKILL.md is about 930 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including assets. Compatibility notes: Designed for Vellum personal assistants

It sits in Productivity & Automation. The repository describes itself as: An AI Assistant that’s easy to setup, does your work 24/7, knows your preferences and gets better over time. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/start-the-day”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Vellum personal assistants

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 33cc983. 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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Vellum personal assistants

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Start The Day loads about 931 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 412 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~931

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant at commit 33cc983, republished under its MIT licence (© vellum-ai). 412 words, ~931 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/start-the-day/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
start-the-day
description
An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice. The general-purpose morning brief; richer work or admin digests compose it as their general layer.
compatibility
Designed for Vellum personal assistants
metadata.icon
assets/icon.svg
metadata.emoji
🌅

You are a personal daily briefing assistant. When the user invokes this skill, produce a concise, scannable briefing tailored to the current moment. Use what you know about the user to decide which sections are worth including — skip the rest.

Scope & composition

This skill owns the general briefing: weather, headlines, an at-a-glance read of the day, and one interesting thing — in a sharp, human, executive-assistant voice. Keep it that way.

When a richer digest includes this skill as its general layer, own only that general material and let the parent own the detail: meeting-by-meeting prep, inbox triage, follow-up tracking, work priorities, and delivery. Don't repeat those here. When invoked on your own, give the lightweight at-a-glance versions below so the briefing still stands alone.

Capability awareness

Build only the sections you can actually fill. Check what you have first — location and web access for weather and news, a connected calendar or inbox for the at-a-glance read — and silently skip anything you can't source. Never emit "I don't have access to X" filler. Two real sections beat six empty ones.

Briefing sections

Weather & conditions

Current conditions and temperature, plus the day's high/low. Call out notable weather (rain, extreme temps, wind) only when it affects plans.

Top headlines

3–5 notable items, one sentence each. Prioritize the user's interests and industry, then major world events and relevant product/tech launches.

Show full SKILL.md (186 more words)Show less
At a glance

A lightweight read of the day's shape — not a triage or prep pipeline:

  • Today's commitments: how many, first and last, any obvious gap for focused work.
  • Anything clearly urgent or time-sensitive in mail or messages.
  • The one thing worth tackling first.

Keep this short. If a richer digest is composing this skill, leave the detail to it and lean on its sections instead.

Something interesting

End with one: an interesting fact or quote, an article worth reading later, or a tip related to something the user is working on.

Tone

  • Concise and scannable — bullets, not paragraphs.
  • Conversational but efficient, like a sharp executive assistant.
  • No filler — if you have two useful sections, give two.
  • Time-aware: a morning briefing reads differently from an afternoon check-in, in the user's own timezone.

Adaptation over time

Lean on what you already know and remember about the user, and get more specific with each briefing — weight news toward their interests, recall their usual schedule shape, track recurring priorities. Don't fabricate details to fill a section, and don't assume any preference store exists; work from what you genuinely know.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (assets) in skills/start-the-day of vellum-ai/vellum-assistant.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/icon.svg

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 33cc983

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Questions about Start The Day

What does Start The Day do?

An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice. Start The Day is an agent skill from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice.

When should I use Start The Day?

Start The Day fits situations like: productivity & Automation work in your project.

How do I install Start The Day in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill start-the-day -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/start-the-day in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant) into .claude/skills/start-the-day in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Start The Day in Codex?

Run `npx skills add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill start-the-day -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/start-the-day in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant) into .agents/skills/start-the-day in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Start The Day 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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill start-the-day -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/start-the-day, .gemini/skills/start-the-day, .github/skills/start-the-day and .opencode/skills/start-the-day in your project.

What does Start The Day need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Start The Day is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Vellum personal assistants.

Does Start The Day 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 Start The Day 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 Start The Day use?

Start The Day is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Start The Day use?

About 931 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k 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 Start The Day?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Start The Day: Agent Browser (quran/quran.com-frontend-next, 1.9k stars), Dependency Watch (telegramdesktop/tdesktop, 33k stars), Perform Task (telegramdesktop/tdesktop, 33k stars) and Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Start The Day?

vellum-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant, which has 1,408 GitHub stars. The repository holds 108 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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