Ocas Vesper

Vesper

Vesper generates concise daily briefings by aggregating signals from across the system. It presents outcomes and opportunities in natural assistant language while hiding internal processes.

When to use

• Generate morning or evening briefing
• Request an on-demand briefing
• Check pending decision requests
• Configure briefing schedule or sections

When not to use

• Deep research — use Sift
• Pattern analysis — use Corvus
• Message drafting — use Dispatch
• Action execution — use relevant domain skill

Responsibility boundary

Vesper owns briefing generation, signal aggregation, and decision presentation.

Vesper does not own: pattern analysis (Corvus), web research (Sift), communications delivery (Dispatch), action decisions (Praxis).

Vesper receives InsightProposal files from Corvus. Vesper may request Dispatch to deliver briefings.

Commands

• vesper.briefing.morning — generate morning briefing
• vesper.briefing.evening — generate evening briefing
• vesper.briefing.manual — on-demand briefing
• vesper.decisions.pending — list unacted decision requests
• vesper.config.set — update schedule, sections, delivery
• vesper.status — last briefing time, pending decisions, schedule
• vesper.journal — write journal for the current run; called at end of every run

Invocation modes

• Automatic morning — during configured morning window
• Automatic evening — during configured evening window
• Manual — on user request

Signal filtering rules

Include: actionable information, meaningful outcomes, plan-affecting changes, multi-signal opportunities, preparation-useful information.

Exclude: routine background activity, already-experienced events, internal system reasoning, speculative observations.

Evening-specific: no past weather, no summaries of attended meetings.

Read references/signal_filtering.md for full rules.

Formatting rules

• Conversational paragraphs, not bullet dumps
• Section headers use emoji: 📅 Today, ✉️ Messages, 🧭 Logistics, 📈 Markets, 🔐 Decisions, 🛠 System
• Links use [[artifact name]] format
• Weather in opening paragraph, no section header
• Decision requests: option, benefit, cost — framed as optional
• Opportunities surfaced without exposing underlying analysis

Read references/briefing_templates.md for structure and examples.

Behavior constraints

• No nagging — ignored decisions are treated as intentional
• No internal system terminology
• No references to architecture or analysis processes
• No speculative observations
• Only concrete outcomes and actionable opportunities

Inter-skill interfaces

Vesper receives InsightProposal files from Corvus at: ~/openclaw/data/ocas-vesper/intake/{proposal_id}.json

Vesper checks its intake during briefing generation. Applies signal filtering rules before including. After processing each file, move to intake/processed/.

See spec-ocas-interfaces.md for the InsightProposal schema and handoff contract.

Storage layout

~/openclaw/data/ocas-vesper/
  config.json
  briefings.jsonl
  signals_evaluated.jsonl
  decisions_presented.jsonl
  decisions.jsonl
  intake/
    {proposal_id}.json
    processed/

~/openclaw/journals/ocas-vesper/
  YYYY-MM-DD/
    {run_id}.json

The OCAS_ROOT environment variable overrides ~/openclaw if set.

Default config.json:

{
  "skill_id": "ocas-vesper",
  "skill_version": "2.0.0",
  "config_version": "1",
  "created_at": "",
  "updated_at": "",
  "schedule": {
    "morning_window": "07:00-09:00",
    "evening_window": "17:00-19:00",
    "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles"
  },
  "sections": {
    "today": true,
    "messages": true,
    "logistics": true,
    "markets": true,
    "decisions": true,
    "system": true
  },
  "retention": {
    "days": 30,
    "max_records": 10000
  }
}

OKRs

Universal OKRs from spec-ocas-journal.md apply to all runs.

skill_okrs:
  - name: signal_precision
    metric: fraction of included signals rated actionable by user
    direction: maximize
    target: 0.85
    evaluation_window: 30_runs
  - name: terminology_compliance
    metric: fraction of briefings free of internal system terminology
    direction: maximize
    target: 1.0
    evaluation_window: 30_runs
  - name: decision_framing
    metric: fraction of decision requests including option, benefit, and cost
    direction: maximize
    target: 1.0
    evaluation_window: 30_runs

Optional skill cooperation

• Corvus — receives InsightProposal files via intake directory
• Dispatch — may request Dispatch to deliver briefings
• Rally — reads portfolio outcome signals
• Calendar/Weather — reads external context for briefing content

Journal outputs

Action Journal — every briefing generation run.

Visibility

public

Support file map

File | When to read references/schemas.md | Before creating briefings, sections, or decision requests references/briefing_templates.md | Before generating briefing content references/signal_filtering.md | Before evaluating signals for inclusion references/journal.md | Before vesper.journal; at end of every run