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.
New words here · Plain English
one sentence each · full glossaryBriefingA short summary delivered on a schedule, like a morning news report built from sources you choose.
CronThe scheduler that fires the briefing at the same time every day.
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