Morning Brief

Pre-computed context

Repo: !gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown (run inside a gh repo or pass --repo)" gh: !command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "present" || echo "MISSING (required)" jq: !command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "present" || echo "MISSING (required)"

Variables

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Purpose

The 30-60 minute operator morning pass begins with the same hand-run gh queries every day. This skill collapses them into a single 5-second picture for the current repo, so the pass starts from a complete view instead of ad-hoc lookups.

Read-only and gh-based. It runs only gh read queries and never mutates labels, comments, issues, or PRs. Owner/repo is derived from gh repo view (never hardcoded), so it is reusable across repos.

Run it

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/morning-brief/scripts/morning-brief.sh" $ARGUMENTS

Print the script's output verbatim — it is already the deliverable. Do not re-query the sections by hand.

What each section reports

| Section | Source | Notes | |---|---|---| | Queues | gh issue list --label counts | Labels: priority: needs-triage, status: ready, status: needs-decision, needs-human | | Merge-ready PRs | gh pr list filtered to non-draft + mergeStateStatus=CLEAN | A light glance signal; reviewDecision shown but not required (repos without required review leave it empty) | | Parked decisions | open status: needs-decision issues | Surfaces each one's RECOMMENDED line — the uppercase marker wins over an incidental lowercase mention; a case-insensitive fallback catches lowercase markers | | Lane telemetry | the loop-lane telemetry issue's per-lane comments | Each lane's last-cycle age (marked STALE past --stale-hours, default 6) and any flags: |

The telemetry issue is auto-discovered by title; pass --telemetry-issue N to pin it. When no such issue exists (e.g. a consuming repo without loop-lane telemetry), that section reports "no telemetry issue found" and the rest of the brief still renders.

Cross-references

• /source-control:babysit-prs — the authoritative PR merge gate and readiness

classification. The merge-ready list here is a fast gh-native glance, not a substitute for that skill's per-PR gate.

• /observability — reads locally captured telemetry (OTEL store, hook-event JSONL,

ccusage). This skill instead reads GitHub-side queue and PR state.

What this skill does NOT do

• Does not mutate anything — no label, comment, merge, or close writes.
• Does not classify PR merge-readiness authoritatively — use /source-control:babysit-prs.
• Does not read local telemetry stores — use /observability.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: melodic-software
• Source: melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.