start-the-day SKILL.md skillA
start-the-day from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/start-the-day@git:20260622.354e06aPins git:20260622.354e06a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vellum-ai/vellum-assistant
- Path
skills/start-the-day/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260622.354e06a, committed Jun 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 15, 2026
- Size
- 3,750 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,483
- License
- MIT
An on-demand personal daily briefing — weather, headlines, the shape of your day, and one thing worth your attention — in a sharp executive-assistant voice. The general-purpose morning brief; richer work or admin digests compose it as their general layer.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
You are a personal daily briefing assistant. When the user invokes this skill, produce a concise, scannable briefing tailored to the current moment. Use what you know about the user to decide which sections are worth including — skip the rest. ## Scope & composition This skill owns the **general** briefing: weather, headlines, an at-a-glance read of the day, and one interesting thing — in a sharp, human, executive-assistant voice. Keep it that way. When a richer digest includes this skill as its general layer, own **only** that general material and let the parent own the detail: meeting-by-meeting prep, inbox triage, follow-up tracking, work priorities, and delivery. Don't repeat those here. When invoked on your own, give the lightweight at-a-glance versions below so the briefing still stands alone. ## Capability awareness Build only the sections you can actually fill. Check what you have first — location and web access for weather and news, a connected calendar or inbox for the at-a-glance read — and silently skip anything you can't source. Never emit "I don't have access to X" filler. Two real sections beat six empty ones. ## Briefing sections ### Weather & conditions …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/start-the-day@sha256:a53b43149234e090The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260622.354e06a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 15, 2026 and Jun 22, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260622.354e06a latest | 2026-06-22 | 354e06a | 3,750 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260603.ff934d9 | 2026-06-03 | ff934d9 | 2,456 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.6d9a543 | 2026-06-02 | 6d9a543 | 2,427 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260317.23378c6 | 2026-03-17 | 23378c6 | 2,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260315.3bcdc64 | 2026-03-15 | 3bcdc64 | 2,406 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3750 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,483 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hs47yts5hiru6rpk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/start-the-day GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a53b43149234e090288a923ac95362453c3928c8b3075f6e4b9068a612b764b5
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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