Morning Briefing and End-of-Day Summary

Cody bookends your workday with two automated briefings: a morning session that surfaces today’s meetings and most important tasks, and a closing summary that tallies what you accomplished and offers a single click to push anything unfinished to tomorrow. Both are triggered once per day, tracked via the lastMorningBriefing and lastClosingBriefing fields in AppState, so they fire exactly once regardless of how many times Cody is restarted during the day.

Morning Briefing

When Cody detects that the current hour has reached briefingHour (default 8) and no morning briefing has been delivered yet today, it opens the briefing panel automatically. The briefing presents three pieces of information at a glance:

Today’s meetings — pulled directly from your local Outlook calendar, showing title, time, and a “Join Teams” button if a Teams link was found.
Top 3 tasks — the three highest-priority pending tasks ranked by urgency and due date.
Text-to-speech option — a listen button reads the summary aloud using the Windows Speech Synthesis API, so you can catch up while settling into your desk.

You can enable or disable both briefings at any time under Settings → Briefings. When briefingsEnabled is set to false, neither the morning nor the closing briefing will appear, regardless of the configured hours.

End-of-Day (Closing) Briefing

When the clock reaches closingHour (default 18) and no closing briefing has been delivered today, Cody shows the end-of-day summary. It includes:

Completed vs. pending tasks — a count of everything you checked off today versus what is still open.
Expiring tomorrow — tasks whose dueAt falls on the next calendar day, so you know what to prioritize first thing in the morning.
Postpone all to tomorrow — a single button that updates the dueAt of every pending task from today to the same time tomorrow, removing end-of-day stress without manual rescheduling.

Briefing vs. Briefing: At a Glance

Feature	Morning Briefing	Closing Briefing
Default trigger hour	8:00 AM (`briefingHour: 8`)	6:00 PM (`closingHour: 18`)
State key	`lastMorningBriefing`	`lastClosingBriefing`
Shows meetings	✅ Today’s calendar events	❌
Shows top tasks	✅ 3 most important pending tasks	✅ All pending tasks
Shows what’s due tomorrow	❌	✅
Completion summary	❌	✅ Completed vs. pending count
Text-to-speech	✅ Listen button	❌
One-click postpone	❌	✅ Postpone all to tomorrow

Settings Reference

Both briefings are controlled by the AppSettings interface. The relevant fields are:

export interface AppSettings {
  // ...other fields
  briefingsEnabled?: boolean  // Toggle both briefings on or off. Default: true
  briefingHour?: number       // Hour (0–23) to trigger the morning briefing. Default: 8
  closingHour?: number        // Hour (0–23) to trigger the closing briefing. Default: 18
}

Briefing hours use the 24-hour clock and are compared against the local system time. Setting briefingHour to 9 means the morning briefing fires any time Cody is running between 9:00 and 9:59 AM if it has not already fired today.

How the Daily Trigger Works

Cody checks the lastMorningBriefing and lastClosingBriefing date strings stored in AppState on each tick of its internal timer. A briefing fires when:

briefingsEnabled is true (or absent, which defaults to enabled).
The current local hour matches the configured hour.
The stored last-run date does not match today’s calendar date.

After firing, the date is updated in AppState and persisted to %APPDATA%/cody-desktop-assistant/cody-data.json, preventing a second trigger for the rest of the day.

What if Cody starts after the briefing hour?

If Cody is launched at 9:30 AM and briefingHour is 8, the morning briefing will not fire — the trigger hour has already passed. Cody evaluates the condition in real time; it does not deliver a missed briefing retroactively. The closing briefing at 6:00 PM will still fire normally that evening.

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