ceo-brief

CEO Brief

Generate a morning briefing and write it to the CEO execution log.

Config

Resolve $VAULT using this fallback chain (first match wins):

1. Environment variable $CEO_VAULT (if set)
2. Obsidian plugin config: ~/.claude/plugins/cache/nhangen/obsidian/*/obsidian.local.md → read vault_path
3. Default: ~/Documents/Obsidian

If $VAULT/CEO/AGENTS.md does not exist, ask the user where their Obsidian vault is installed and use that path.

Resolve $WEEKLY_MERGES_DIR (used by Step 10):

1. If $VAULT/CEO/AGENTS.md defines weekly_merges_dir:, use that value (resolved relative to $VAULT).
2. Default: $VAULT/CEO/weekly-merges/.

Example AGENTS.md override (when the producer skill writes elsewhere, e.g. under an org subfolder):

weekly_merges_dir: Awesome Motive/weekly-merges/

Steps

1. Read global agent rules — read $VAULT/CEO/AGENTS.md.

2. Read CEO identity — read $VAULT/CEO/IDENTITY.md.

3. Read training — read $VAULT/CEO/TRAINING.md and $VAULT/CEO/training/briefings.md if it exists.

4. Read user profile — read $VAULT/Profile.md Active Domains for priority order.

5. Scan open PRs — read $VAULT/CEO/repos.md for known repos. For each repo (and as a global fallback):

   gh pr list --state open --search "review-requested:@me" --repo <org>/<repo> --limit 10
   gh pr list --state open --author @me --repo <org>/<repo> --limit 10
   

   If repos.md is empty, run without --repo flag (searches across all accessible repos). Note: PR count, oldest PR age, any with failing CI.

6. Check pending approvals — read $VAULT/CEO/approvals/pending.md. Count outstanding items.

7. Check pending questions — read $VAULT/Pending.md. Pick 1-2 questions relevant to the day's likely focus domain.

8. Read yesterday's log — if $VAULT/CEO/log/ has yesterday's file, read the EOD summary for carryover items.

9. Read today's daily note — if $VAULT/Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md exists, read Top 3 and Tasks sections.

10. Read merged-PR trend — surface a single line summarizing the user's own weekly merged-PR activity from the am-weekly-merges (external producer skill) INDEX files. The producer counts PRs authored by its configured gh user that landed during the window — not PRs merged on others' behalf, not tickets, not reviews. Render the line as first-person ("My merged PRs ...") to reflect that scope.

    10a. Compute <current-quarter> from today's UTC date as YYYY-QN (Q1=Jan–Mar, Q2=Apr–Jun, Q3=Jul–Sep, Q4=Oct–Dec). UTC is required so the value matches the generated timestamp in INDEX frontmatter. If current is Q1, the previous quarter is (YYYY-1)-Q4.

    10b. INDEX frontmatter contract (consumed fields; the producer is the external am-weekly-merges skill, no in-repo schema doc):

    • latest_week (string, ISO week e.g. 2026-W20, or the literal string none for an empty quarter)
    • latest_count (int)
    • rolling_avg_4w (float)
    • rolling_avg_n (int, 0–4)

    10c. Read INDEX files. Let CURRENT=$WEEKLY_MERGES_DIR/INDEX-<current-quarter>.md and PREVIOUS=$WEEKLY_MERGES_DIR/INDEX-<previous-quarter>.md. Extract fields with yq (do not eyeball the YAML — extraction must be deterministic):

    yq -r '.latest_week'    "$CURRENT"
    yq -r '.latest_count'   "$CURRENT"
    yq -r '.rolling_avg_4w' "$CURRENT"
    yq -r '.rolling_avg_n'  "$CURRENT"
    

    Read PREVIOUS only when CURRENT's rolling_avg_n < 4.

    10d. Merge rule. latest_week and latest_count always come from CURRENT. When CURRENT.rolling_avg_n < 4 and PREVIOUS exists, replace rolling_avg_4w and rolling_avg_n with the values from PREVIOUS (these reflect a longer trailing window).

    10e. Skip / diagnostic guards (mirror the if file exists shape used in steps 8–9):

    • If neither CURRENT nor PREVIOUS exists: skip the line entirely.
    • If CURRENT exists with latest_week == "none" AND PREVIOUS is absent or also latest_week == "none": skip the line.
    • If yq fails to parse either file's frontmatter: emit a muted diagnostic line instead of silent-skip — My merged PRs: (index frontmatter unreadable for <file>). A stalled producer cron must be distinguishable from a genuine no-merges week.

    10f. Render the merged line (single template, no ==4 special case): My merged PRs (last week, {latest_week}): {latest_count} — {rolling_avg_n}wk avg {rolling_avg_4w}

11. Write brief — create or append to $VAULT/CEO/log/YYYY-MM-DD.md:

    ## HH:MM — morning-brief
    
    **Status:** completed
    **Playbook:** playbooks/morning-brief.md
    
    ### Brief
    - **Open PRs:** N total (oldest: N days, repo/PR#)
    - **PRs needing your review:** N
    - **Pending approvals:** N items in CEO/approvals/pending.md
    - **Top priorities:**
      1. [priority from daily note or inferred]
      2. [priority]
      3. [priority]
    - **Questions:** [1-2 from Pending.md if relevant]
    

12. Present brief to user — print the brief to terminal. Do not write to the daily note directly.

Constraints

• Max 10 bullet points in the brief
• Do not execute any actions — this is read-only
• If gh is unavailable, skip PR scan and note "GitHub CLI unavailable"
• Step 10 requires yq (brew install yq on macOS; not preinstalled). If yq is unavailable, skip Step 10 and note "yq unavailable — merged-PR trend skipped" in the brief.