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 them
Primary · the end-to-end build (test by hand, self-contained prompt, schedule, customize, manage)
Tutorial: Daily Briefing Bot
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Schedule formats and delivery reference
Scheduled Tasks (Cron)
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Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from
Schedule (8am daily)from source ↗
/cron add "0 8 * * *" "Search the past 24h for AI news; summarize the top 3 with links." --deliver telegram
/cron list then /cron run
Keep it alivefrom source ↗
hermes gateway install · hermes cron status

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above

Next in the series · Episodes that build on this

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