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☕ Morning Brief — Jarvis reads everything overnight so I don't have to

Morning brief in Discord

The 7am brief that arrives in my private Discord — 5 bullets, two minutes to read, written by an agent that ran on my desk while I slept.

Every morning at 7am, before my first coffee, a message appears in my private Discord with five bullets:

  • what shipped at work overnight (GitHub releases + merged PRs)
  • the two emails I actually need to act on (with one-line summaries)
  • anything mentioned in my team's #general Slack channel
  • today's calendar with the next 24 hours of meetings
  • one thing I asked Jarvis to track for me ("did Tuesday's deploy roll out cleanly?")

It's the first thing I read on my phone, while I'm still in bed. The brief used to take me 25 minutes — opening four apps, scrolling, deciding what mattered. Now it's two minutes of reading and I'm done.

Why it's nice

  • Costs me nothing per month. It runs on a Mac mini in my closet. Same prompt-volume on the OpenAI API would be ~$18/month based on the leaderboard's estimates.
  • Nothing leaves my house. My inbox, my Slack DMs, my calendar — Jarvis reads them locally and writes the digest locally. The only network call is the Discord webhook to my own private server.
  • It learns my taste. Over a few weeks Jarvis figured out that PR titles starting with chore: aren't worth surfacing and that I don't want to see calendar holds I created myself. The summarizer has a MEMORY.md it updates when I react with 👎 to a bullet.

What you'd need

A laptop or mini-PC that stays on overnight, an inference engine (Ollama is the easy default), accounts on whichever surfaces you want summarized (Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Google Calendar), and a Discord (or Slack, or Telegram, or email) destination to post the brief to.

How I set this up

→ Tutorial: Scheduled Personal Ops walks through the cron-scheduled agent pattern this uses. The morning-brief flavour is orchestrator agent + the channel adapters + the scheduler primitive — three primitives, one TOML recipe.

→ User Guide: Morning Digest is the focused recipe walkthrough if you only want this one workflow.

→ User Guide: Channels for connecting Discord/Slack/Telegram as the destination.