Morning Briefing

The morning briefing is Foxl's signature use case — a daily automated summary of everything you need to know before starting your day.

What It Does

Every morning at your chosen time, Foxl automatically:

Checks your email (Gmail, Outlook — via Chrome Extension)
Reviews your calendar for today's meetings
Summarizes important messages from Slack or Teams
Checks the weather for your location
Delivers a structured briefing to your dashboard

Setup

Quick Setup (Recommended)

Just tell the agent:

"Set up a morning briefing for me at 7am. Check my Gmail, Google Calendar, and give me the weather for Seoul."

The agent will:

Create a cron schedule (0 7 * * *)
Configure the briefing sources
Start delivering briefings the next morning

Manual Setup

Open the Schedules page in the sidebar
Create a new schedule with type Cron
Set the expression to 0 7 * * * (7:00 AM daily)
Enter the task prompt describing what to check

Prerequisites

For the full briefing experience, you need:

Desktop app running — schedules execute locally
Chrome Extension installed — for email and calendar access
Logged into Gmail/Outlook in Chrome — the agent uses your real sessions
Logged into Google Calendar in Chrome — for calendar events

The morning briefing uses the Chrome Extension to access your logged-in accounts. No additional OAuth or API keys are needed — if you can see your email in Chrome, Foxl can read it.

Customization

You can customize the briefing to include any combination of:

Email summary (unread count, important senders, action items)
Calendar events (today's meetings with times and attendees)
Weather forecast
News headlines (from specific sources)
Git repository activity
Service health checks
Custom data from any website you're logged into

Tell the agent what you want changed:

"Add my GitHub notifications to the morning briefing" "Skip the weather, add Hacker News top 5 instead" "Change the briefing time to 6:30am"

Example Briefing Output

Good morning! Here's your briefing for Monday, March 17, 2026:

EMAIL (3 unread)
- [Priority] Project deadline moved to Friday — from [email protected]
- Meeting notes from last week's sprint review
- Newsletter from TechCrunch

CALENDAR (2 events today)
- 10:00 AM — Team standup (30 min, Google Meet)
- 2:00 PM — Client demo with Acme Corp (1 hr, Zoom)

WEATHER
- Seoul: 12C, partly cloudy, high of 18C

GITHUB
- 2 PRs awaiting your review
- CI passed on main branch

Credits are consumed per LLM API call based on token usage (input + output tokens multiplied by the model's pricing). A morning briefing involves multiple conversation turns as the agent reads email, checks calendar, and composes the summary. The exact credit cost depends on:

Which model you use (Haiku is cheapest, Opus is most expensive)
How much content the agent processes (longer emails = more tokens)
Number of tool calls in the briefing flow

With BYOK or Ollama, no relay credits are consumed.