daily-briefing
Automated daily tech briefing — multi-source collection → knowledge-base deduplication → AI summarization → TTS speech synthesis, generating MP3 audio briefings
Profile →npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill daily-briefing --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Daily AI Audio Briefing > Automatically collect, deduplicate, summarize, and synthesize a daily tech briefing as a warm-voiced MP3 every morning. ## Workspace - Collection script + summarization/TTS script - Output: `briefing/YYYY-MM-DD.mp3` + `.txt` - Knowledge base: `brain/news/YYYY-MM-DD/` - Schedule: cron (recommended 8:30 AM) ## Workflow 1. **Collect** — Scrape GitHub trending/rising, HN top/show/new, arXiv latest AI papers, weather 2. **Deduplicate** — Compare against `brain/news/` existing entries - New project → mark `is_new` - Growth >30% → mark `is_update` - Otherwise → discard 3. **Ingest** — Write new entries to `brain/news/YYYY-MM-DD/` 4. **Summarize** — AI composes briefing script from filtered JSON 5. **Synthesize** — TTS API → MP3 file 6. **Cleanup** — Delete briefings older than 7 days ## Rules - Don't use shell-level file deletion (`find -delete`) — may trigger security scanners; use Python `Path.unlink()` - Don't assume cron environment has API keys loaded — export them before running scripts - Don't use inline `python3 -c` or heredocs in agent/cron mode — write to `.py` files first - Don't trust agent-reported "MP3 generated" — verify mtime with `stat` after T
- Workspace
- Workflow
- Rules
- Validation
- Pitfalls
- Date placeholders not replaced (Fixed: 2026-05-12)
- Wrong weather source (Fixed: 2026-05-12)
- Cron security scanner false positives
- Cron environment missing .env
- Model reasoning field empty content
- TTS text length limit
- References
What does the daily-briefing skill do?
Automated daily tech briefing — multi-source collection → knowledge-base deduplication → AI summarization → TTS speech synthesis, generating MP3 audio briefings
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill daily-briefing --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills, a repository with 364 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.