Is the Daily Brief skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from leiting-eric/DailyBrief. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Daily Brief SkillProof Score?

8.0/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 5/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Daily Brief?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Daily Brief with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Daily Brief

Operate and debug the daily-brief news + trading digest pipeline

by leiting-eric · leiting-eric/DailyBrief

Works with setup

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Works with setup
Score: 8.0/10
Tested: Jul 31, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 9ebb944

Fetched SKILL.md and cloned the repo; all 3 spot-checked references returned HTTP 200 and every render.ts constant the skill names (CATEGORY_LABELS, SUBCATEGORY_ORDER, TECH_MAIN_SUBS, SOURCE_DISPLAY_LIMITS, MERGED_SUBGROUP_LIMITS) exists in code. For the output test I ran the skill's "add a source / deprecate a source" workflow two ways: a baseline that used category:"ai-news" (which I verified actually fails the registry validator, validCategories={tech,finance,politics}) and deleted the deprecated entry, vs the skill-following version that used category:"tech"+subcategory:"ai-news", added useCurl (Cloudflare), lang:"en", locales, and kept the deprecated source as enabled:false + notes. Could not exercise the run/diagnose commands (need claude CLI or an API key), so only the registry-conventions slice was executed.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 5/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Daily Brief does

Operational cheat-sheet for the daily-brief project: a local/GitHub-Actions pipeline that fetches RSS/API sources, enriches them with a pluggable LLM backend, adds a trading section, and renders a single-page HTML digest. Triggers when the user asks (inside that project) about running the daily pipeline, regenerating sections, debugging a failed run, adding/disabling sources, LLM quota, the OS scheduler, or why a tab/source shows wrong data. Points to documented npm commands, the file to edit for each change, and a top-down diagnostic flow.

How to install Daily Brief

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leiting-eric/DailyBrief.git /tmp/daily-brief-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/daily-brief-src/.claude/skills/daily-brief ~/.claude/skills/daily-brief
# This is a PROJECT-OPERATIONAL skill: it documents how to run/debug the DailyBrief
# pipeline and is only useful inside a clone of that repo. To actually run anything
# (npm run daily / dry-run / render / quota-report) you need the full repo checked out
# with `npm install`, Node 20+, and an LLM backend configured (claude CLI on a Max plan,
# or an API key for anthropic/openai/deepseek/minimax/zhipu via .env.local).
# The skill file above only gives Claude the operating knowledge; it is not standalone.

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Daily Brief

/daily-brief Operate and debug the daily-brief news + trading digest pipeline

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Regenerate today's daily brief sections
Debug why the trading section failed
Switch the daily brief's LLM backend

Frequently asked questions

Is the Daily Brief skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from leiting-eric/DailyBrief. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Daily Brief work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 31, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Fetched SKILL.md and cloned the repo; all 3 spot-checked references returned HTTP 200 and every render.ts constant the skill names (CATEGORY_LABELS, SUBCATEGORY_ORDER, TECH_MAIN_SUBS, SOURCE_DISPLAY_LIMITS, MERGED_SUBGROUP_LIMITS) exists in code. For the output test I ran the skill's "add a source / deprecate a source" workflow two ways: a baseline that used category:"ai-news" (which I verified actually fails the registry validator, validCategories={tech,finance,politics}) and deleted the deprecated entry, vs the skill-following version that used category:"tech"+subcategory:"ai-news", added useCurl (Cloudflare), lang:"en", locales, and kept the deprecated source as enabled:false + notes. Could not exercise the run/diagnose commands (need claude CLI or an API key), so only the registry-conventions slice was executed.
What is the Daily Brief SkillProof Score?: 8.0/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 5/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Daily Brief?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Daily Brief with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.