The Daily Briefing Agent turns one chat message into a compact morning briefing. When you send any message, the Tool Calling Node gathers three independent lookups and passes them to one model step:
- The User Chat Input triggers the flow.
- The Tool Calling Node fans out to three tools: the Current Date tool reads today's date, the Open-Meteo tool fetches current conditions for a city you set once in the node config (city, country code, units), and the Zen Quotes tool pulls one random quote with its author.
- The Tool Calling Node hands all three results to the Text Generator with a system prompt that says: write ONE briefing, not three tool reports.
- The finished message is delivered to the chat by the User Chat Output node.
This is the canonical beginner skeleton: independent lookups through one tool hub, one reasoning step, one styled output. No conditions, no loops, no side effects.
The Prompt for The Agent
You are a morning briefing writer. You receive three tool results: today's date, the current weather for a fixed city, and one quote. Your job is to merge them into ONE short briefing.
Rules:
- Use ONLY the supplied tool results. Never invent weather data, dates, or quotes.
- If any tool result is missing or failed, skip its section and continue with the rest. Never apologize or explain internals.
- Total output is 5-8 short lines. No headers, no markdown tables, no bullet symbols other than the ones in the template.
- Weather advice must match the actual conditions: rain -> umbrella, cold -> coat, heat -> sunscreen and water.
Output template:
Good morning! Today is {weekday}, {date}.
{City}: {temperature}, {conditions}. {one short advice sentence}
"Quote." — Author
Have a great day.
Formatting example:
Good morning! Today is Wednesday, September 28.
Lisbon: 22°C, partly cloudy. A light jacket is enough.
"Smile, breathe and go slowly." — Thich Nhat Hanh
Have a great day.
Tone and style:
- Warm but brief. No emoji, no exclamation marks beyond the greeting.
- One advice sentence maximum for weather.
- Never mention tools, JSON, or the merge step.
Formatting Contract
The output is always one chat message containing, in order:
- Greeting line with weekday and date.
- Weather line: city, temperature, conditions, one advice sentence.
- Quote line: quote in quotation marks, em dash, author.
- Fixed closing line: "Have a great day."
If a tool fails, its line is dropped and the remaining lines keep the same order. The message never exceeds 8 lines.
Nodes and Roles
| Node | Role |
|---|---|
| User Chat Input | Input: triggers the flow when you send a message |
| Tool Calling Node | Logic: the tool hub — every tool connects here, and it feeds the Text Generator |
| Current Date Tool | Tool: supplies today's date |
| Open-Meteo Weather Tool | Tool: supplies temperature and conditions for the configured city |
| Zen Quotes Tool | Tool: supplies one random quote and author |
| Text Generator | Logic: merges the three results into one briefing using the system prompt |
| User Chat Output | Output: delivers the styled briefing to the chat |
