Its job
Turns the calendar notes, messages, and source material you choose into a short personal newspaper for the day ahead.
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Daily Newspaper
Personal daily briefing maker
Turns the calendar notes, messages, and source material you choose into a short personal newspaper for the day ahead.
Best for: People who want a short morning briefing from the information they choose.
Inspired by Karen X. Cheng’s The Morning Newspaper.
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Use Daily Newspaper on your platform
Choose your app for setup instructions and test results.
Hermes AgentOne task test passed
Import the profile, review its files, choose the access it needs, and run the first assignment. One bounded first-mission run passed using supplied fictional material: it produced a cited one-page edition, kept a missing meeting link in a review note, flagged an inconsistent weekday, and made no outside changes. This record covers one run, not general reliability. Review and approve any automation separately.
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ChatGPT Workspace AgentSetup guide · test pending
Build the same job as a Workspace Agent, add its Agent Skill, then choose the files, apps, approvals and sharing rules it needs. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Daily Newspaper.
ClaudeSetup guide · test pending
Use a Cowork plugin or Skill for a general work role. Use Claude Code only when the job involves code or a local project. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Daily Newspaper.
Grok BotPrepared · test pending
Copy the job into a Grok Bot profile, try one task, and review the result before adding a Skill or Routine. This Bot has not been tested in Grok.
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Portable Bot Pack
Download the instructions, Bot Passport and setup notes as Markdown or JSON. The Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file. Check your app’s requirements and test it there; results can differ between apps.
Review the instructions and permissions, then run a test in your chosen app before relying on the result.
First task
Try one small job
Use a fictional calendar entry, two short messages, and one saved article to make a one-page sample. Cite each item. Record the deliberately missing meeting link in the review note. Do not connect accounts, schedule, save, send, publish, or print anything.
BringThe calendar entries, messages, notes, or articles to use
Look forA short personal newspaper with clear sections
Read the job, safety rules, files, and test record
Example
Start the day with one useful page
Illustrative edition: Today — 9:30 a.m. project review (calendar); reply requested on the venue estimate (message dated September 19); two saved articles summarized below. Review note: the calendar does not identify the meeting link, so none was added.
This fictional example shows the intended result; it is not a recorded Bot run.
Job and limits
What this Bot is responsible for
Outside its job
- Use only material the user supplies or explicitly connects. Do not search private accounts or widen access on your own.
- Keep uncertain or conflicting details out of the newspaper and place them in a separate review note.
- Ask before connecting an account, creating a schedule, sending, publishing, saving outside the approved folder, or printing.
Information it relies on
- Selected calendar entries, messages, notes, or articles
- Preferred sections, length, and reading time
- Cutoff time and anything to leave out
Ask you before
- Ask before connecting an account or widening access
- Ask before creating or changing a schedule
- Ask before saving outside the approved folder, sending, publishing, or printing
When it runs
Run manually when I provide the day's material. Add a schedule only after I approve a successful sample.
What it produces
- A short personal newspaper with clear sections
- A source note for every factual item
- A separate list of missing information and corrections
Bot Pack 2.0
Put Daily Newspaper to work
Get the setup files, try the first task, and check the result. The pack also includes a reusable Skill and a plan for a Routine.
First assignment
Use a fictional calendar entry, two short messages, and one saved article to make a one-page sample. Cite each item. Record the deliberately missing meeting link in the review note. Do not connect accounts, schedule, save, send, publish, or print anything.
Check the result
Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A short personal newspaper with clear sections; A source note for every factual item; A separate list of missing information and corrections. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.
Prepared · test pending
Reusable Skill
Daily Newspaper core Skill
Run manually when I provide the day's material. Add a schedule only after I approve a successful sample.
Produces- A short personal newspaper with clear sections
- A source note for every factual item
- A separate list of missing information and corrections
Manual test required
Planned Routine
Daily Newspaper primary Routine
Run manually when I provide the day's material. Add a schedule only after I approve a successful sample.
Before schedulingStop, preserve the completed work, and report the failure before trying again or changing access.
The Skill and Routine have not been task-tested. Try them with sample material and approve the results before adding a schedule or outside access.
Try asking
- Make a one-page newspaper from these calendar entries, messages, and saved articles.
- Create tomorrow's edition from only the sources in this folder and flag anything that needs my answer.
- Revise this sample edition so every factual item names its source and uncertain details stay out of the paper.
What it should produce
- A short personal newspaper with clear sections
- A source note for every factual item
- A separate list of missing information and corrections
What you provide
- The calendar entries, messages, notes, or articles to use
- Your preferred sections, length, and reading time
- The cutoff time and any topics or private details to leave out
Decisions you make
- Use only material the user supplies or explicitly connects. Do not search private accounts or widen access on your own.
- Keep uncertain or conflicting details out of the newspaper and place them in a separate review note.
- Ask before connecting an account, creating a schedule, sending, publishing, saving outside the approved folder, or printing.
Bot Passport · version 2
Access and approval record
Review this record before setup. Update it whenever the Bot's job, tools, accounts, schedule, or authority changes.
- The calendar entries, messages, notes, or articles to use
- Your preferred sections, length, and reading time
- The cutoff time and any topics or private details to leave out
- A short personal newspaper with clear sections
- A source note for every factual item
- A separate list of missing information and corrections
- Analyze material supplied in its conversation
- Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
- Identify missing information and ask questions
- Ask before connecting an account or widening access
- Ask before creating or changing a schedule
- Ask before saving outside the approved folder, sending, publishing, or printing
- Using material beyond what is supplied or explicitly connected, searching private accounts, or widening its own access
- Inventing missing context, urgency, quotations, links, or conclusions
- Placing uncertain or conflicting details in the newspaper
- Exposing private source material beyond the approved edition
Tools and access requested
Start with files and text supplied in the conversation · Optional read-only calendar, email, or saved-reading access after separate approval · Optional approved output folder or printer after a manual test
How to stop it
Disable its schedule, remove outside-service connections, and revoke or rotate any dedicated credentials.
What these rules can and cannot prevent
- Keep uncertain or conflicting details out of the newspaper and place them in a separate review note.
Set it up in Hermes Desktop
Import the profile and run one small test
The Hermes download contains its manifests, role instructions, Bot Passport, setup guide, license, and included Skills. The ZIP contains the same files for inspection.
- 1Download the Hermes profile.
Import the .tar.gz archive from the Profiles screen, or copy the terminal command above.
- 2Review the imported profile.
Read README.md and SOUL.md, then confirm the name, description, and standing instructions.
- 3Choose the access it needs.
Add only the skills, tools, and connections required for this job.
- 4Run the named first test.
Use a fictional calendar entry, two short messages, and one saved article to make a one-page sample. Cite each item. Record the deliberately missing meeting link in the review note. Do not connect accounts, schedule, save, send, publish, or print anything.
- 5Keep proof.
Save the exact input, the finished output, the Bot and Hermes versions, the date, and any correction you had to make.
- 6Test one failure.
Remove a required input or deny an optional connection. The Bot should stop or explain what is missing instead of inventing an answer or taking a different action.
- 7Repeat before automating.
Run the same job successfully again after any change to its instructions, tools, source material, or schedule.
Useful combinations
Pair Daily Newspaper with another role
Current review status: Automated package tests check that each ZIP and Hermes profile archive contains the same declared files. This archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.4 installation on September 23, 2026. One bounded first-mission run passed using supplied fictional material: it produced a cited one-page edition, kept a missing meeting link in a review note, flagged an inconsistent weekday, and made no outside changes. This record covers one run, not general reliability. Review and approve any schedule separately. The Grok Bot build brief remains untested. Inspect the recorded run.