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Monday brief

What needs you and what moved.

For: A founder or operator running a small team on agents, or a lead with several workstreams
When: Monday morning, or any time you have lost track
Takes: A couple of minutes of agent time
You get: A one-screen brief in your Inbox: decisions waiting on you, loose ends, what moved in each cell, and what shipped

The prompt

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Give me my Monday brief from onecell for <cluster, or "everything">.
Cover <period> (default: since last Monday).

1. Gather:
   - list_decisions with status proposed: what waits on a decision
   - list_documents updated since the start of the period, per cell
   - the latest repo snapshot and handoffs, if there are any

2. Draft "Weekly brief: <cluster>, <dates>" in my Inbox (dry run first):
   - A stats block: open decisions, documents changed, merges
   - Needs you: a checklist of decisions to make, empty or misplaced
     documents, and open questions from handoffs, with links
   - What moved: a table with one row per cell
   - Shipped: two lines, linking snapshots or postmortems

3. Keep it to one screen. Link to documents; don't copy them.

4. Reply with the three things that most need me this week.

What your agent does

Finds what waits on you
list_decisions returns every proposed decision, across clusters if you ask. These lead the brief.
Sees what moved
list_documents with a date shows every new or changed document, which the agent groups by cell.
Spots loose ends
Empty drafts, misplaced documents, and open questions left in handoffs.
Keeps it short
One screen in your Inbox, with links rather than copies, and the top three in chat.

What you get back

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A brief for Fernbrook, a made-up seven-person team. It found three open decisions, a draft with no owner, and an empty document on the hive.

Sample Monday brief: Fernbrook, week of 18 August

Open decisions: 3
Documents changed: 17; since last Monday
Merged: 11; pull requests

Needs you

Decide: price the annual plan at ten months or eleven? (proposed by Marco, 6 days old)
Decide: is the fourth payment retry on annual plans intended?
Decide: reminders that miss their window wait or skip? (Lena has a proposal)
The Northwind renewal brief is a draft with no owner
An empty draft, Untitled, has been in the hive since Thursday

What moved

Cell	What changed
Engineering	Reminders handoff updated twice; the postmortem published
Customers	Two support answers turned into help articles
Marketing	Autumn newsletter drafted; voice check run on it
The hive	Q3 goals updated with August numbers

Shipped

Partial payments and translated invoice PDFs went out on Thursday. The reminder fix is in dry run. Details in the repo snapshot and the postmortem.

.md for agents

Variations

Open decisions only

Ask: “List every proposed decision across all my clusters, oldest first, with a link and one line each.” It is the fastest way to see what the team is waiting on.

A team brief on the hive

Save it to the team's hive instead of your Inbox, scoped to that cluster, and publish it after a glance. Everyone starts the week from the same page.

A daily start

Set the period to “since yesterday” and ask for the top three only, in chat, with no document.

Tips

Scope a brief to one cluster before sharing it, so work from other clusters stays private.
Decisions first: an unmade decision blocks more work than an unread document.
If the same loose end shows up two weeks running, fix it or drop it.