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Briefing Builder

Claude Skill Version 1.0

Most “daily briefing” skills assume you use the same stack as whoever wrote them. Briefing Builder doesn’t. It’s a meta-skill: it interviews you about your tools, role, and what “important” actually means to you — then generates a pair of briefing skills tailored to your setup.

There’s a full write-up of why I built it on the blog: The Briefing Skill That Builds Itself Around You.

What it does

Run it once and it walks you through a short set of questions, then produces two ready-to-install skills:

  • Morning briefing — what happened overnight across your email and chat, sorted by what matters to you.
  • Call prep — account context, attendee research, and a suggested agenda before each meeting.

How it adapts

  • Your tools drive the sources. Gmail vs Outlook, Slack vs Teams, Google Calendar vs Notion vs Cal.com — each is handled differently, and anything you don’t have is gracefully skipped. No connectors at all? It falls back to web search and whatever you paste in.
  • Your role drives the priorities. “Urgent” means incidents and blocked PRs for an engineer, hot deals and prospect replies for sales, investor comms and churn signals for a founder. Your own definition of high-priority overrides all of it.
  • Your meeting volume drives the length. Three calls a day gets you full account snapshots and agendas; ten calls a day gets you tight open-threads-and-names checklists.

How to use it

  1. Download the .skill file below.
  2. Install it (drop it in your skills directory / import it in Claude).
  3. Run it and answer the questions — it generates your two custom skills.
  4. Optionally set them up as scheduled tasks so the briefing lands every morning.