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Agent
Passport
Specimen
Daily Brief
daily-briefdeliver a short morning briefing that replaces scrolling the news
the goal the owner wrote in the specThe bearer
Page 2 of 4Software bearer
- Name
- daily-brief
- Title
- Daily Brief
- Issued
- 2026-08-06
- Link expires
- Never, it is the specimen
- Capture path
- file
- Envelope
- read-notify
- Source stack
- python scripts on macOS, local scheduler, a small local model for summarising
- Scrub
- regex+llm, owner-reviewed
- Signed by owner
- Confirmed this description
Source stack is where this agent ran before it was captured. Your rebuild does not need it, and nothing in the install tries to reproduce it.
It reads a fixed set of news sources every weekday morning and writes a short briefing: the handful of stories worth knowing, then the day's calendar, then the weather. It runs before its owner wakes up, so the briefing is waiting rather than requested. It is meant to replace ten minutes of scrolling, not to be comprehensive.
The machine-readable zone
Page 3 of 4The real passport format, with real check digits, computed from this file.
Read it field by field
Two lines of 44, in the ICAO 9303 TD3 field positions, with check digits computed on the 7-3-1 weighting. Every value is read off this passport. An agent has no nationality and no date of birth, so those positions carry the capture path and the date this file was checked instead, and the legend above says which is which.
Entry permissions
Page 4 of 4What you will need
2required
- Fetch news from the web
- Deliver the brief to you
3optional
- Read your calendar
- Run on a schedule
- Remember your preferences
1declared only
- Send it on to somebody else
Each one is an account or a permission on your own platform, and you grant it yourself when your assistant asks. This passport carries no credentials, and nothing is granted by reading this page. Declared only means the original agent had it and version 0.1 will not install it.
Fetch news from the web
this is the briefing content
Requirement: Required
If you skip it: there is no briefing
Installable in v0.1: yes
Read your calendar
adds today's schedule to the brief
Requirement: Optional
If you skip it: the brief has no calendar section
Installable in v0.1: yes
Run on a schedule
it arrives before you ask for it
Requirement: Optional
If you skip it: you start it yourself each morning
Installable in v0.1: yes
Remember your preferences
keeps your topics and tone between runs
Requirement: Optional
If you skip it: you restate your topics each run
Installable in v0.1: yes
Deliver the brief to you
it has to reach you somehow
Requirement: Required
If you skip it: it writes a brief nobody sees
Installable in v0.1: yes
Send it on to somebody else
the original forwarded a trimmed copy to a colleague
Requirement: declared only
If you skip it: it goes to you and to nobody else
Installable in v0.1: no, declared only
Delivery is a channel you pick: chat, your own mailbox, a notification, or a file you keep. It goes to that one place and nowhere else. The original also forwarded a copy to a colleague; this install will not, and will not try.
Granted means version 0.1 will install that capability. Not granted means it is named here, and left out, so you can see what the original could do that your copy will not.