Read your daily and weekly briefings
A short daily briefing on what your agents did, and a Monday recap of your week with suggestions.
The Daily Digest is a short briefing that an AI writes each day: what your sessions did, what they cost, what went wrong and what needs you. The Weekly Summary does the same for the past week every Monday, with a few suggestions. Both are off until you turn them on.
Turn on the daily briefing#
Open Settings > Email & Summaries and expand Daily digest.
Turn on Enable Daily Digest.
Under Generation Time, pick the hour it should be written (local time).
Optional: under Included Sources, choose what it reads, such as Project Sessions, Gmail or Calendar. Under Sections, choose what it shows.
The first briefing arrives at the next generation time. To get it sooner, open Briefings in the sidebar and click Generate now (shown while the list is empty).
Read a briefing#
New briefings appear in your Inbox under Briefings. Click one to read it. They also live in the Briefings row in the sidebar, with the ones you snoozed and archived below.
While you read, you can:
ask the briefing a question under Follow-up Questions,
click Share to share it, or New session to start an agent from it,
archive it when you are done.
A briefing has an Alerts section for things that went wrong. Press XXXX to dismiss the top one, Shift plus X⇧XShift plus XShiftX to dismiss it and stop similar ones in future briefings, or Shift plus D⇧DShift plus DShiftD to dismiss them all. You can undo "don't show again" under Suppressed Alerts in the same settings.
Get a weekly recap#
Turn on Enable Weekly Summary in the same Daily digest settings. It works on its own, with or without the daily briefing.
Every Monday at the Scheduled time (7:00 to start with), you get two Inbox rows under Briefings:
Weekly summary: a few highlights of your week and a By the numbers card (sessions, spend, busiest projects).
N suggestions from last week: a few tips, some with a button to act on them. Dismiss a tip and pick why (for example Not useful); Yardmaster remembers your reasons for 90 days, so the same kind of tip stops coming back.
The first time you turn it on, it also writes summaries for up to four past weeks, so the list is not empty.
Keep the weekly cost low#
The weekly summary has its own Daily spend cap (default $0.10). When a day's spend reaches it, generation pauses until the next day.
Privacy. The weekly summary builds its suggestions from counts and scrambled fingerprints of your activity, not from the text of your messages.
Leaving a project out. Excluded Projects in the Daily digest settings keeps a project's sessions, costs and outcomes out of your briefings.
Missing sections. A section with nothing to report that day stays hidden.
Missed days and the daily limit. If Yardmaster was closed when a briefing was due, it writes the missed ones for days that had activity when it next starts, up to 7 days back. The daily briefing has its own spending limit of $1 a day (no setting changes it); past that, it skips until the next day.
Related
- Get alerts from your agentsAn agent can leave a note in your Inbox that stays until you deal with it: a heads-up, a link, a file or a report.
- Keep dated pages together in a seriesTurn a run of dated shares, like a daily digest or a nightly report, into one series link with a page for each day and a homepage.
- Choose how much agents do on their ownAgent Permission Level decides when a Claude agent stops to ask you, from asking before every change to never asking.