Daily brief - 2026-07-23 (Thursday)

Today's focus

Five files sit uncommitted on main: jobs/prompts/daily-brief.md, jobs/prompts/research-digest.md, src/agentmailkit/posts/taper.py, src/agentmailkit/themes/builtin.py. Worth committing or stashing before starting anything new, so the working tree doesn't carry stale docs work into today.

Where the repo left off

The last five commits were a documentation push, not feature work:

• README trim - cut to a skimmable front page, full docs moved to docs/ with a TOC and an agent runbook
• Gallery - six live samples now cover every theme, source family, and the taper piece
• Model fix - claude_cli backend is now enforced text-only, denies every tool
• Job library - new examples plus engine-enforced house style
• New sources - rss, dual-perspective news, this-day-in-history, weather; hf and arxiv made fully general

Net effect: docs and examples caught up to the source count (ten built-in sources), but no engine changes landed this stretch.

What's next per the README

The stated next step is a quickstart command that generates a working sample set from the user's own data on first run. Nothing in the uncommitted diff touches that yet, so it's still open.

One thing to check

themes/builtin.py and posts/taper.py are both mid-edit and uncommitted. If today's plan involves either the renderer or the taper companion, read those diffs first, they may already reflect partial work from a prior session.