Morning Routine

🤖 Auto-generated by weekly-pattern-learner · obsidian-task-rollover, obsidian-pr-sync, and dependabot-triage all describe themselves as morning-routine steps but no meta-skill chains them into a single first-thing-of-day pass

Morning Routine

Run the three start-of-day workflows in sequence, then summarize what needs your attention today. Each phase is idempotent: re-running is safe.

Inputs

• VAULT_DAILY (required): absolute path to the Obsidian daily notes folder
• GH_USERNAME (required): GitHub login for PR filtering
• ORG_PREFIX (optional): org name to group as "Work" in the PR section
• --skip-rollover (optional): skip task rollover (e.g. Monday after a break)
• --skip-pr-sync (optional): skip GitHub PR sync
• --skip-dependabot (optional): skip Dependabot triage

If any required config is missing, ask once before starting. Don't abort midway.

Phase 1: Task rollover

Initialize the daily note path once, before any optional phase:

NOTE="${VAULT_DAILY}/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Run olko:obsidian-task-rollover on the previous workday's note.

obsidian-task-rollover is an end-of-day migration skill: it copies unchecked tasks from a given day's note into the next workday's note with a [>] marker. When invoked here in the morning, it should operate on yesterday's (or the last workday's) note so those unchecked tasks are pulled forward into today's note. If yesterday's note does not exist, skip this step and note it in the report.

Skip if --skip-rollover is set, or if it's Monday and the user has explicitly said they clear the board on Fridays.

After this phase, confirm:

grep -c "^\- \[ \]" "$NOTE" 2>/dev/null || echo "0"  # open tasks today
grep -c "^\- \[>\]" "$NOTE" 2>/dev/null || echo "0"  # migrated tasks

Record counts for the final report.

Phase 2: PR sync

Run olko:obsidian-pr-sync.

This fetches all open GitHub PRs where the user is assignee or review-requested, filters out bots and drafts, and writes or replaces the ## PRs to review section in today's daily note. PRs are grouped into Work (ORG_PREFIX org) and Personal.

Skip if --skip-pr-sync is set.

After this phase, count PRs written:

grep -c "^\- \[ \] \[" "$NOTE" 2>/dev/null || echo "0"

Phase 3: Dependabot triage (quick sweep)

Run olko:dependabot-triage with patch-only auto-merge policy.

This auto-approves and merges safe patch bumps whose CI is green, flags major upgrades for human review, and posts a digest. The patch-only policy means no minor or major bumps are merged automatically, just the safest dependency noise.

Skip if --skip-dependabot is set, or if there are no open dependency PRs:

gh pr list --state open \
  --json author --jq '
    [.[] | select(.author.login | test("dependabot|renovate"; "i"))]
    | length
  ' 2>/dev/null

If the count is 0, skip phase 3 and note it in the report.

Final report

Print a compact brief suitable for the start of the day:

Morning routine complete: YYYY-MM-DD

  Tasks:        N open today (M carried over from yesterday)
  PRs:          X work PRs, Y personal PRs → see ## PRs to review in today's note
  Dependabot:   Z merged (patch, CI green), W flagged for review

  Today's top 3:
    [read from ## Top 3 for today section if populated, else print "(not filled in yet)"]

  Flagged for you:
    - [PRs older than 7 days ⚠️ from the PR sync, if any]
    - [Major Dependabot bumps flagged for human decision, if any]

If a phase failed (auth expired, vault not found, network error), surface the error clearly rather than silently skipping that phase.

Invocation patterns

Manual (user-triggered): User says "start my day", "run morning routine", or "set up today's note". Run the full flow and show the final report.

Scheduled (cron / CCR): No user prompt needed. Run all three phases silently and emit the report as the run's output. Useful as a pre-meeting brief or as a first message in a new session.

Partial run: If the user wants to re-sync only PRs mid-day: --skip-rollover --skip-dependabot.

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