How-To Series · Episode 41 / 59 · Module 6: Working While You Sleep
Capstone · Daily Briefing Bot
Wake up to a custom news briefing, built by you, running on its own.
After this videoYou can now run a real personal briefing bot in production.
The season capstone ties together web search, cron, delegation, and messaging, with no code. The flow: at 8am, cron fires, a fresh agent searches the web for your topics, summarizes them, and delivers the briefing to your phone. Prove the prompt by hand in a chat first, then schedule it with /cron add "0 8 * * *" "<full prompt>" --deliver telegram. The golden rule: the cron job runs a fresh session with no memory, so the prompt must be self-contained. Test immediately with /cron run instead of waiting. Customize with a persona or a weekday-only schedule, delegate per-topic research for speed, and run hermes gateway install so it survives reboots.
About these resources. Commands come from the Daily Briefing Bot tutorial and the Cron reference.
Sources · What this video distills
2 docs pages · every command below traces to one of themCommands shown · Copy and paste
each shows the source doc it came from/cron add "0 8 * * *" "Search the past 24h for AI news; summarize the top 3 with links." --deliver telegram/cron list then /cron run hermes gateway install · hermes cron statusGoing deeper · Related Hermes docs
further reading · not sources of facts shown aboveNext in the series · Episodes that build on this
E36
Schedule With Cron
E38
Subagent Delegation
E21
Web Search