Three briefing quality fixes surfaced by reading today's 2026-04-11
compilation output:
- **Stale weather**: get_weather was returning 48h-old cache data
after a missed scheduler run. Tool now auto-refreshes any cached
location older than 6h (fetching fresh data from Open-Meteo), and
stamps each location with cache_age_hours + is_stale so the model
can hedge instead of faithfully relaying old numbers.
- **Cancelled tasks leaking into prose**: briefing loop now defaults
list_tasks calls to status=["todo","in_progress"] when the model
doesn't specify, so cancelled/done items stop showing up in the
summary. Localized to the briefing path — chat still sees full
history.
- **Overdue in-progress tasks missed by midday check-in**: tightened
the check-in prompt to explicitly require two list_tasks calls —
one for in_progress (catches items dragging past their due date)
and one filtered by due date — so long-running tasks stop getting
silently dropped.
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