News Brief — Design + Setup

✅ DECISIONS LOCKED 2026-06-11 (Worker 🐝, ratified-unless-vetoed by Sam). The open questions below are ANSWERED; sample shipped (outputs/2026-06-11_14-10_briefing_jewish-news.html — Sam: "looks pretty cool"). The old Path A/B/C email-pipeline debate is SUPERSEDED by Path D — live web pull (how the sample was built; no NEWS_INPUT feeding needed).

LOCKED DEFINITION (v1 — refine after a week of reads)

Decision	Call	Why
Pipeline	Path D — live web pull at generate time (WebSearch/RSS at fire time, AI-summarized, portal-published)	Proven by the 6/11 sample; zero manual feeding; NEWS_INPUT stays as an optional Sam-dictation lane
Sources	YWN · Matzav · 5TJT · Times of Israel · Hamodia + general wire only when a story crosses into Sam's lanes	Sam's actual reads; [SOURCE]-tagged per output-format rule
Sections	TL;DR one-liner → Israel/Klal Yisroel → Frum world (EY) → Close-to-home (Five Towns/Lakewood/Monsey/Rockland) → Markets one-line (VIX/SPY if >1% move) → Parsha thought → Music corner	Sample structure Sam liked + his geo memory + Jewish music standing topic
Cadence	Daily Mon–Fri, generated with the 7:30 Day-Ahead (one extra section/link, not a separate ping) + fuller Sunday edition (week roundup + week-ahead)	Sam 6/11: "maybe even daily, just wanna see if it works" — try daily for 2 weeks, drop to Sun-only if noise
Shabbos/Yom Tov	Skip Sat + Yom Tov (Hebcal-aware); Sunday edition covers what happened	Obvious
Sam's edition	Portal (gated), linked from the Telegram morning ping	Cadence v2 delivery rule
Shareable edition	PUBLIC fixed link, no logins — same brief minus markets/personal lanes, published to ONE stable URL that overwrites itself daily (`news-today.html` on public hookstreetservices.com or standalone; short-URL on top later). Siblings/extended family bookmark once.	Sam 6/11: outside family, no accounts, self-overriding daily
Chanie/family copy	The public link IS the family copy (answers the old open question)	No extra build
Owner	Generation = the cloud morning-spine (Brain & Inbox lane); definition = this doc

What's still open (Sam, whenever): which artists/feeds for the Music corner · any source to ADD/CUT after 2 weeks of reads · the short-URL name if wanted.

v2 REFINEMENTS (Sam voice note, 2026-06-12 Fri PM — locked into the definition)

Refinement	Rule
Source blend	ALL outlets, not just Jewish ones: general wire/mainstream (AP/Reuters/ABC/etc.) AND the Jewish outlets (YWN · Matzav · 5TJT · ToI · Hamodia) — woven into ONE briefing. "Looking at everybody, unbiased."
No repeats	Dedup across sources AND across days — a story already covered yesterday appears only if it MOVED. "Don't give me the same stuff and repeating information."
Unbiased, not pushy	Synthesize across outlets; never adopt one outlet's framing wholesale. Maintain a growing exclusions list (topics Sam doesn't want pushed) — starts empty, grows from his feedback.
Geo layering (over time)	Add ZIP-code-level local layer per `user_geographic_scope` (11581/Five Towns · Monsey/Rockland · Lakewood · Israel) — incrementally, as wanted, not all at once.
Season-aware	Always Hebcal-aware: candles on Erev Shabbos, Yom Tov skips, seasonal context (summer travel, school calendar). "Keep all the seasons in mind."
PUBLIC family edition — SECURITY BY CONSTRUCTION	The family page is 100% static: zero JS fetches, zero API keys, zero links into gated surfaces, zero personal/financial/queue content. There is nothing on it to leak. Demo shipped: `outputs/news-today.html` (stable overwrite-daily name per the v1 lock). Currently on the GATED portal for style review — promoting it to a truly public URL (hookstreetservices.com path or standalone) is a separate hosting decision that requires the isolation review first (`feedback_endpoint_auth_audit`: probe every route, confirm the public surface shares NO auth context, no phantom leftovers).
Demo	`outputs/news-today.html` built 6/12 from that morning's live-pull briefing, minus markets + personal lanes. Sam to react on style.

Sam's ask (original)

I wanna fire up a morning news brief. I want to be able to send myself a daily, weekly, monthly, every-other-day news. I wanna dictate what I see, when, and how it's seen. Make it real, useful.

What already exists in the workspace

v1 BOS has news plumbing (NEWS_INPUT tab)

Tab: NEWS_INPUT — created by buildNewsInputSheet_() in v1 Code.js
Columns: Bucket · Headline · Summary · Source · Date · Action / Relevance
How it gets read: getTabularInput_(ctx.ss, CFG.sheets.newsInput)
How it appears in reports: rendered in renderReport_ as a NEWS section, controlled by toggles INCLUDE_NEWS_DAILY / WEEKLY / BIWEEKLY / MONTHLY in SETTINGS
Status: plumbing live, but NEWS_INPUT is currently empty because Sam hasn't been feeding it manually

Prior weekend-news briefings (one-shot HTML)

outputs/2026-04-19_15-56_briefing_weekend-news.html (v1)
outputs/2026-04-19_16-19_briefing_weekend-news-v3.html (v3, final)
These were Claude-generated one-shots when Sam asked for them ad-hoc — NOT automated

The gap

Sam wants AUTOMATIC. Two missing pieces:

Source ingestion — something needs to put fresh news INTO NEWS_INPUT regularly
Dictate what to see — config-driven filters (geographic, topic, urgency)

Three paths forward (recommendation: Path B)

Path A — Manual: Sam types/dictates news into NEWS_INPUT

Setup: zero (already works)
How it fires: v1 reports include the NEWS section if INCLUDE_NEWS_* = YES
Pros: total control over what shows up
Cons: entirely manual; Sam will not stay disciplined; defeats the "automatic" goal

Path B — Email-to-BOS pipeline (RECOMMENDED) 🎯

Build a Voice-Intake-style channel for news:

iPhone Wispr Flow dictates news takeaway into Gmail with subject [NEWS-V1]
Gmail filter auto-labels these Claude-Briefings/News
Apps Script trigger (similar to existing PROCESS_QUICK_CAPTURE) reads labeled emails every 30 min, parses into rows, writes to NEWS_INPUT
v1 reports already render NEWS_INPUT — no other change needed

Setup effort: 1 focused session (~2 hrs). Same architecture as Voice Intake (per memory).

How Sam dictates "what / when / how":
- Bucket field in NEWS_INPUT — Markets / Real Estate / Geopolitical / Crypto / Local / Industry — set by subject prefix [NEWS-MKT], [NEWS-RE], etc.
- Action / Relevance field — Sam adds his own one-liner on why it matters
- INCLUDE_NEWS_* toggles — control which report cadence (DAILY/WEEKLY/MONTHLY) shows news

Path C — Web scraper / RSS ingestion

Apps Script UrlFetchApp pulls RSS feeds (NYT, WSJ, market alerts, geographic-specific)
Filters by Sam-defined keyword list
Auto-summarizes via Anthropic API (1 token cost per news item)
Writes to NEWS_INPUT

Setup effort: 1–2 sessions (~3–4 hrs). More complex but truly autonomous.

Cons: spammy without strong filters, easy to over-include junk, expensive in API tokens at scale.

Recommended config for "what Sam wants to see"

Per user_geographic_scope.md memory:

Default geographic scope:
- ZIPs: 11581 / 11516 / 11210 / 11230 / 34747 / 33896 / Miami-Surfside
- Regions: Rockland / Monsey / Forshay / Pomona / Wesley Hills / Lido / Jerusalem / Beit Shemesh
- Topics: Jewish music

Default topical scope:
- Markets: SPY / QQQ / VIX moves >2% · sector rotation events · earnings beats/misses for held tickers
- Real estate: Disney STR market · Orlando · Long Island RE comps
- Hookstreet: anything that affects Eden / Mildred / Mom / Chanie's biz

Cadence design (per Sam's "daily / weekly / monthly / semi-weekly")

Cadence	Day(s)	Source	What's in it
Daily	Mon-Fri 7 AM (skip Sat/Sun)	NEWS_INPUT entries since last fire	Top 5 takeaways, color-tagged by Bucket
Weekly	Sunday 8 AM	NEWS_INPUT entries last 7 days	Themes round-up + week-ahead preview
Bi-weekly	Every other Wed 7 AM	NEWS_INPUT entries last 14 days	Mid-stream check (only if INCLUDE_NEWS_BIWEEKLY = YES)
Monthly	1st of month 9 AM	NEWS_INPUT entries last 30 days	Macro themes + stories that compounded

All toggleable via SETTINGS. v1's INCLUDE_NEWS_* already exists.

What I recommend Sam do NEXT

Option 1 — Quick start (this week):
- Use Path A manually for 7 days. Type 1–2 news items into NEWS_INPUT each morning
- See what cadence + format actually fits your routine
- Then commit to Path B or C based on what hurt the most

Option 2 — Full build (next session):
- I build the Email-to-NEWS_INPUT pipeline (Path B) — same architecture as Voice Intake
- ~2 hrs, you tell me the bucket prefixes you want
- Test for a week, refine

Files for reference

HookStreet-Business-OS/sheets/src/Code.js line ~1008 — buildNewsInputSheet_
HookStreet-Business-OS/sheets/src/Code.js — INCLUDE_NEWS_* toggles
outputs/2026-04-19_*_weekend-news*.html — examples of past one-shot briefings
Voice-intake repo: zee78900/hookstreet-voice-intake — architecture template

Open questions for Sam

Path B (email pipeline) or Path C (RSS auto-pull)?
Geographic + topical filters from user_geographic_scope.md memory still current?
Daily 7 AM or different time?
Saturday/Sunday inclusion or skip entirely?
Wife's chanietreitel@gmail.com get a copy? (per WIFE_TEST_MODE pattern)