Morning Briefing

The morning briefing is Foxl's signature use case - a daily automated summary of everything you need to know before starting your day.

What It Does

Every morning at your chosen time, Foxl automatically:

Checks your email - Gmail through the gws skill or your logged-in Chrome tab, Outlook through the Microsoft 365 integration or the extension
Reviews your calendar for today's meetings
Summarizes important messages from Slack or Teams
Checks the weather for your location
Delivers a structured briefing to your dashboard

Setup

Quick Setup (Recommended)

Just tell the agent:

"Set up a morning briefing for me at 7am. Check my Gmail, Google Calendar, and give me the weather for Seoul."

The agent will:

Create a cron schedule (0 7 * * *)
Configure the briefing sources
Start delivering briefings the next morning

Manual Setup

Open the Schedules page in the sidebar
Create a new schedule with type Cron
Set the expression to 0 7 * * * (7:00 AM daily)
Enter the task prompt describing what to check

Schedules ships with a Morning Briefing row already written, switched off: weekdays at 08:30, capped at ten minutes, reading your workspace memory, the last day of conversations and whichever calendar or inbox you have connected. Turn it on from the Schedules page, or edit its prompt and time first. If you delete it, Start from a pre-made schedule under the list brings it back.

Prerequisites

For the full briefing experience, you need:

Desktop app running, or Keep running when closed switched on - schedules execute on your computer
One route into your mail and calendar - any of: the Chrome Extension with Gmail or Outlook open and signed in, the gws skill (gws auth setup once), or Microsoft 365 connected under Settings > Connect > Integrations
Turn on Run if missed on the schedule if your laptop is often asleep at briefing time - Foxl then runs it once when the machine comes back

With the Chrome Extension, the briefing reads the accounts you are already logged into in Chrome - no extra OAuth or API key. The gws and Microsoft 365 routes each need a one-time sign-in and then work without Chrome open.

Customization

You can customize the briefing to include any combination of:

Email summary (unread count, important senders, action items)
Calendar events (today's meetings with times and attendees)
Weather forecast
News headlines (from specific sources)
Git repository activity
Service health checks
Custom data from any website you're logged into

Tell the agent what you want changed:

"Add my GitHub notifications to the morning briefing" "Skip the weather, add Hacker News top 5 instead" "Change the briefing time to 6:30am"

Example Briefing Output

Good morning! Here's your briefing for Monday, March 17, 2026:

EMAIL (3 unread)
- [Priority] Project deadline moved to Friday - from team-lead@company.com
- Meeting notes from last week's sprint review
- Newsletter from TechCrunch

CALENDAR (2 events today)
- 10:00 AM - Team standup (30 min, Google Meet)
- 2:00 PM - Client demo with Acme Corp (1 hr, Zoom)

WEATHER
- Seoul: 12C, partly cloudy, high of 18C

GITHUB
- 2 PRs awaiting your review
- CI passed on main branch

What a briefing costs

A briefing is several conversation turns - reading email, checking the calendar, composing the summary - so it is the most expensive thing on a schedule. Because you supply the model, that cost lands on your provider bill, and on a local model it is free. What drives it:

Which model you picked (a fast, cheap model is usually plenty for a digest)
How much content the agent reads (long email threads are the bulk of it)
How many tool calls the briefing makes
Whether thinking is on - see Thinking and cost

A daily briefing on an expensive reasoning model is the one schedule worth pointing at a cheaper one. See Cost & model access.