Deepworkplan Addon Dailybot

DeepWorkPlan — Dailybot Addon

Connect the target repo to the developer's Dailybot team so that DWP work — the full plan lifecycle — surfaces to humans as standup-style progress reports. This is an opt-in addon; it is never required for a repo to be AI-first, and it never blocks the actual work.

The rule that overrides everything: this addon DEFERS, it does not reinvent

The official Dailybot agent skill (currently 3.10.3) already owns install, consent, auth, context detection, the writing style, and the non-blocking guarantee. It exposes 14 coordinated capabilities (report, ask, messages, email, chat, conversations, health, check-ins, kudos, teams, forms, workflows, report channels, per-repo API keys) — but this addon's job is narrow: (1) offer to install the Dailybot skill/CLI through their own consent flows, and (2) wire the optional report sub-skill into DWP execute/plan lifecycle. It MUST NOT duplicate, bypass, or weaken any Dailybot consent or auth flow — it points at them. (Normative source: SPEC.md.)

Positioning guardrail (read before anything)

The core DeepWorkPlan methodology has ZERO Dailybot dependency. It is vendor-neutral, MIT, and agent-agnostic. A repo with zero addons — including this one — is fully conformant. This addon adds team visibility for developers who already use Dailybot; declining it leaves a fully AI-first repo. Never present Dailybot as a precondition for DWP, and never auto-install it for everyone.

Read these first (all relative inside the skill)

• SPEC.md — the normative (RFC-2119) contract: what is installed (all opt-in), how auth is deferred, how the report step is wired, the never-block rule, and the vendor-neutral guardrail.
• templates/INTEGRATION.md — reasoning guidance (NOT copy-paste): detect-if-already-installed, how to wire the optional report step into DWP execution, and the consent / never-block rules.
• ../README.md — the addon mechanism (opt-in, reconcile-don't-clobber, contract).

When this runs

• From onboard Phase 7b — after the core AI-first scaffolding, onboard offers this addon alongside devcontainer; if accepted it reads this SKILL and runs the flow below.
• Directly — /deepworkplan-addon-dailybot on an already-onboarded repo to add the Dailybot integration.

The flow

Step 0 — Consent + recommend-only-if-relevant

1. Confirm relevance. Offer this addon only when it makes sense: the developer or team already uses Dailybot, or explicitly asks for team reporting. In trust/auto mode you MAY recommend it only on that signal — do not auto-install for everyone. If the developer declines, stop cleanly; the repo stays baseline-conformant.
2. Detect existing setup (reconcile-don't-clobber). Before installing anything, check what is already present (see templates/INTEGRATION.md):
   • Dailybot skill already installed at the agent's skills dir (~/.<agent>/skills/dailybot/)?
   • dailybot CLI already on PATH (command -v dailybot)?
   • A repo identity already committed (.dailybot/profile.json or .dailybot_example/profile.json)?
   • An existing report step already wired into the repo's DWP execute notes?
   • Harness hook configs already carrying dailybot hook entries (.claude/settings.json, .agents/settings.json, .cursor/hooks.json, …)? If a piece already exists, do not redo it — record it and only fill gaps.

Step 1 — Offer the Dailybot skill + CLI install (OPT-IN, defer consent)

Present the install paths and let the developer choose; never run an installer without their explicit acceptance — and where the Dailybot skill's own consent flow applies, defer to it rather than prompting yourself.

• Dailybot agent skill (the recommended path — it brings the consent/auth flow and the full 14-capability pack; currently 3.10.3):
  • npx skills add DailybotHQ/agent-skill (cross-agent, recommended), or
  • npx skills update dailybot when already installed, or
  • OpenClaw native: openclaw skills install dailybot, or
  • git clone https://github.com/DailybotHQ/agent-skill.git + run its setup.sh.
• Dailybot CLI (the underlying bridge, from DailybotHQ/cli; minimum >= 3.7.0 for the whole skill pack; the skill installs it on first use via its own SHA-256-verified consent flow — you generally do not install it separately, but these are the supported paths if asked):
  • Package-manager paths (preferred — pinned + checksum-verified by the package registry):
    • pip install 'dailybot-cli>=3.7.0' (Python 3.10+), or
    • brew install dailybothq/tap/dailybot (macOS).
  • Vendor's verified installer flow (macOS / Linux / Windows) — the Dailybot skill's shared/auth.md documents a three-step download → verify checksum → execute flow with the SHA-256 sidecar (and optional cosign signature). Follow it exactly; do not substitute a one-line remote-installer pipe.

Do not reimplement the verified installer, and never pipe a remote installer to a shell. If the Dailybot skill is being installed, let its shared/auth.md flow drive the CLI install + checksum verification. Only surface the raw package-manager commands when the developer explicitly wants the CLI without the skill.

Step 2 — Auth: DEFER to the Dailybot skill's own consent flow

Do not prompt for email, OTP, or API keys yourself, and do not store any credential. Authentication is owned by the Dailybot skill's shared/auth.md: dailybot login (email OTP) or DAILYBOT_API_KEY / dailybot config key=.... Point the developer at that flow; the skill handles login, profile, and the HTTP fallback. If they decline auth, skip reporting — never block.

Step 3 — Wire the plan lifecycle events into DWP execution

This is the integration value. Reasoning guidance is in templates/INTEGRATION.md — adapt it to the repo; do not copy verbatim.

• Add a short, clearly-optional note to the repo's DWP execution docs (e.g. the generated AGENTS.md reporting section and/or docs/AI_AGENT_COLLAB.md) describing the four lifecycle events (SPEC §5.1) that fire when the Dailybot skill is installed:
  1. Kickoff (SHOULD, regular) — when a plan is materialized and approved, report what is being built and why ("Starting: …").
  2. Significant task (MAY, regular) — a feature/bug fix/major refactor completes; intermediate setup tasks are never reported.
  3. Blocked (SHOULD, regular with blockers) — the plan halts on a stop condition and state.json.blocked is populated (typical of unattended runs): the team sees what is stuck and what it needs in the standup instead of discovering a silent overnight halt.
  4. Completion (SHOULD, the only milestone) — via the dailybot report sub-skill (dailybot agent update ... --milestone --json-data ...), describing what was built, never "completed a plan."
• Where the plan carries the machine-readable state layer (../../spec/PLAN_STATE.md), derive the --json-data payload from state.json: completed from completed tasks (phrased as outcomes), in_progress from the current task, blockers from state.json.blocked.
• Every event MUST be best-effort and conditional: it fires only if the Dailybot skill/CLI is present and authenticated, and it MUST NOT block create or execute if Dailybot is absent, unauthenticated, or unreachable — warn once and continue (see SPEC §Never-block).
• Optionally commit a repo identity so every contributor/agent signs reports the same way: .dailybot/profile.json (or the gitignore-friendly .dailybot_example/profile.json template) — never with a key field (credentials in that file are a hard error per the CLI). The same file MAY carry the committed report policy the hooks honor: "report": {"min_interval_minutes": 30, "nudge": true} ("nudge": false is the soft opt-out that keeps manual reporting available). For research/docs-heavy repos, "mode": "continuous" nudges non-commit work sooner — see the Dailybot skill's report/hooks.md § Per-repo controls.

Step 3b — Offer deterministic hook enforcement (OPT-IN, defer to the Dailybot skill)

The lifecycle wiring above is prompt-layer: it relies on the model remembering to report. With dailybot-cli >= 3.7.0 (included in the current 3.10.3 skill pack), the Dailybot skill ships deterministic hook enforcement (report/hooks.md): harness lifecycle hooks (dailybot hook session-start | activity | post-commit | stop | dismiss) backed by a local per-repo report ledger, so the harness itself detects unreported work and reminds the agent at end of turn — even in long unattended sessions where prompt instructions decay. This is the strongest version of the visibility this addon exists for.

• Offer it (consent-gated, show the exact config before writing) when dailybot --version reports >= 3.7.0: commit the repo-level hook config — Claude Code .claude/settings.json (or .agents/settings.json where .claude → .agents), Cursor .cursor/hooks.json (or via .cursor → .agents), other harnesses per the table in the Dailybot skill's report/hooks.md — so every contributor and fresh container gets autonomous reporting on clone; the only per-person step left is dailybot login.
• Defer the mechanics. The hook templates, output formats, anti-noise gates, and uninstall path are owned by the Dailybot skill's report/hooks.md and report/triggers.md — point at them; do not duplicate or hand-roll the JSON beyond merging it in. Merge into existing config files, never overwrite (§Reconcile).
• The two layers compose — no double-reporting. A successful dailybot agent update (any lifecycle event from Step 3) resets the hook ledger, so the hooks stay silent after a lifecycle report; they act as the deterministic backstop when a lifecycle event was missed. A hook reminder mid-plan is answered with either a lifecycle-appropriate report or dailybot hook dismiss — never ignored, never blocking.
• Degrade gracefully. CLI below 3.7.0 → skip this step (the Step 3 wiring stands alone) and mention dailybot upgrade once. The dailybot hook commands are local-only and always exit 0, so installing them cannot violate the never-block rule; they also respect .dailybot/disabled.

Step 4 — Validate (SPEC §Validation)

Run the validation checklist and report: whether the skill/CLI is present (skill >= 3.10.3 recommended, CLI >= 3.7.0), that auth was deferred (not reinvented), that the report step is wired as optional + non-blocking, whether hook enforcement was offered/installed, the identity source if any, and any deferred items. If nothing could be installed here (sandbox/CI), say why — do not silently skip, and do not fail the onboarding.

Failure-mode guardrails

• Never required, never blocking. If declined — or if Dailybot is missing, unauthenticated, or unreachable — stop/continue cleanly. The repo stays baseline-conformant and execute is never blocked by reporting.
• Defer auth, never store secrets. No email/OTP/API-key prompting here; no credential written to any file. Point at the Dailybot skill's shared/auth.md.
• Verified install only. Never recommend piping a remote installer to a shell (any variant of "fetch from the network and execute in one line"). Point at the Dailybot skill's checksum-verified shared/auth.md flow, or at a package manager (pip, brew) that pins versions and verifies integrity.
• Reconcile, don't clobber. An existing skill/CLI/identity/report step is preserved; only fill gaps. Any destructive change needs explicit approval.
• Vendor-neutral. Never imply DWP needs Dailybot. This addon is purely additive team visibility for teams already on Dailybot.