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Bucket 1 — Three Scheduled Prompts That Work Out of the Box

Prompts 1-3. Three prompts you wire to /schedule today — Daily Briefing, Weekly Review, and the Friday Wrap. No external integrations, just the agent thinking on its own time horizon.

ai-tools free

MAKO ships with /schedule out of the box. You send it a cron-style recurrence + a prompt, the agent fires the prompt at that time and DMs you the answer. These three earn their keep on Day 1.

Prompt 1 — The Daily Briefing

/schedule "0 7 * * 1-5" "What's the one thing I told you yesterday
that I'm most likely to forget today? Pull from our conversation
history. Just one. Under 60 words."

Fires at 7am every weekday. Uses the agent's session history (already in Postgres via the bot's persistence layer) to surface the thing you actually need to remember. No external data sources.

Prompt 2 — The Weekly Review

/schedule "0 16 * * 5" "Look at every conversation we had this week
in your knowledge base and journal entries. Give me back: 1 win,
1 decision I've been avoiding, 1 question I keep circling. 200
words max, blunt language."

Friday at 4pm. Pulls from /remember entries + auto-journaled session summaries. Most people skip weekly reviews because they're effortful — when the agent compiles it from data you've already shared with it, the effort drops to "read for two minutes".

Prompt 3 — The Friday Wrap

/schedule "0 17 * * 5" "Draft me an end-of-week update to my team
(or to myself if you don't know my team yet). Tone: confident but
not bragging. Pull from things we discussed this week. 4-6
sentences. Sign off as 'Brad'."

Friday at 5pm. The agent drafts the wrap from what you actually worked on (per the conversation history); you tweak and send. Replaces the "I should send an update" guilt with an actual draft sitting in your DM.

How to write your own: the format is /schedule "<cron>" "<prompt>". Anything the agent could answer in a conversation right now, it can answer on a schedule. Start with the briefings; add more as you see the pattern.

Next module: the conversational prompts — pasted-in synthesis and drafting on tap.

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Bucket 2 — Two Conversational Prompts (No Plumbing Required)

Prompts 4-5. Drafting on tap. Paste raw input, get back compressed synthesis or 3-angle drafts. Works in any conversation — no schedule, no integration, no agent fuckery.

/schedule "0 16 * * 5" "Look at every conversation we had this week in your knowledge base and journal entries. Give me back: 1 win, 1 decision I've been avoiding, 1 question I keep circling. 200 words max, blunt language."

/schedule "0 17 * * 5" "Draft me an end-of-week update to my team (or to myself if you don't know my team yet). Tone: confident but not bragging. Pull from things we discussed this week. 4-6 sentences. Sign off as 'Brad'."