# The few things that need a person today

A workspace holds more than anyone rereads. Projects, people, companies,
promises made on calls, two notes that ended up saying different things. The
Morning Brief reads all of it overnight and writes one short page in the
morning: not what happened, but what needs you.

## Four kinds of line, and nothing else

- **Decisions waiting on you.** The choices the memory has recorded as open,
  with the date they were due. These are the ones holding someone else up.
- **Where the memory disagrees.** Two notes that say different things about
  the same thing now. A fact a later note replaced is history and stays out.
- **Slipping.** Commitments past their date, the team's own and the ones owed
  to the team, with how late each one is.
- **Ahead of plan.** Spend recorded above a budget the memory holds. It
  appears only when both figures are there, and it quotes both.

Three mornings out of five it is three or four lines. A line that is not
worth five seconds is left out, and on a morning with nothing to say the
brief says "Nothing to report" in one line.

## Every line carries the note it came from

Each line ends with a link to the note it came from, and that note is one the
morning's reading actually opened. A thing that has no note behind it is left
out, and the run records what it left out, so a line nobody can check never
reaches the brief.

## A thing stays until it is settled

The brief is not a feed. A decision still waiting on Thursday is still
waiting on Thursday, and the line says since when, so it reads as the same
thing and not as a new worry.

## Turning it on

Open the **Skills** tab and start **Morning Brief** from its row. The first
run happens straight away so you can see the brief before it repeats.

On a workspace with an AI of its own, the **Schedule** page holds the time it
runs: the morning and the days are yours to set, in your own time zone. It
accepts 7:30 on weekdays.

On Personal there is no Schedule page. The AI you connected runs the brief as
one of its own scheduled tasks, from the words on the skill's own page, and
"run the brief" starts it again whenever you want.

## What it does not do

It only reads. It never settles a disagreement, closes a promise, edits a
note, or writes to anything the team connected. It reads what the memory
holds, so nothing is in the brief that nobody wrote down.

For the narrower question, whether the business is alive and where the team
is dropping the ball, [Are we dying](/skills/are-we-dying) reads the money
from Stripe or the bank. The Morning Brief needs nothing connected and says
nothing about the business's health.