Build Your Own Daily Briefing

Pick your moment

What time of day do you want the briefing to arrive?

Decide what goes in the briefing skill

This is the template you'll customize. Think in modules — small, self-contained sections. Examples:

• The weather
• A calendar or day-ahead summary
• Suggested priorities (if AI has access to this info) and/or a space to write your own
• A short checklist to start, close out, or reset your day
• A reflective prompt

Describe it to Claude

In Cowork, tell Claude to build you a skill and what you want in it, in plain language: when it runs, what each module contains, and where the information comes from.

Save it as a skill

Once the draft looks right, save it so Claude can reuse it.

Set it to recur

Ask Claude to set up a scheduled task at your chosen time — "run this [skill name] every morning at 7am." Scheduled tasks run in the cloud, so they fire whether or not your laptop is open — unless they require access to your local documents, in which case your computer needs to be on and awake.

Find and manage your scheduled tasks

Your recurring tasks live in the Claude desktop app, under Settings → Scheduled tasks. That's where you go to see what's running, change a time, pause one, or delete it.

Run it once, right now

Trigger the skill by name and read the output. If time and if desired, edit the skill or the task. Claude can and should write the edits for either — let AI write for the AI reader.

Tell Claude how to make it better

You improve the skill the same way you built it: in conversation. After a run, just say what to change — "drop the checklist," "make the calendar section shorter," "add tomorrow's first meeting" — and ask Claude to update the saved skill so the change sticks for next time. A briefing gets good incrementally.