Vibe-briefing skills

The take-home kit for the live build: an AI daily briefing that reads your feeds, writes a what-happened and why-it-matters on each story, and remembers everything in Oracle so you can ask it later.

Three things in here:

1. Skills the Agent loads while you build (skills/).
2. A Flask starter so you are not staring at a blank page (flask-starter/).
3. The session slides, if you want to follow the structure later (deck/).

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Before you start: an Oracle database (free)

The backend skill wires the app to an Oracle Autonomous Database and to OCI Generative AI: Select AI writes the summaries inside the database, and Oracle AI Agent Memory stores and searches everything. Every AI call stays inside Oracle, so there are no third-party AI keys to manage.

You do not need an existing Oracle account. Sign up for the OCI Free Trial and you get US$300 in cloud credits for 30 days, which is plenty to set all of this up and run it through the session:

1. Create a free account at oracle.com/cloud/free. You get the $300 trial credits, and an Always Free tier afterwards.
2. Provision an Autonomous Database (choose Oracle AI Database 26ai). Select AI and AI Vector Search are built in.
3. Check that OCI Generative AI is available in your region (the skill uses Cohere models through OCI GenAI). GenAI usage draws from your trial credits.
4. Download the database wallet and set your connection details. The vibe-briefing-backend skill has the exact wiring and the five-route contract.

Running the database in the Autonomous Database Free container image is possible, but the AI still calls OCI GenAI, so you would need an OCI account anyway and would have to swap the wallet connection for a local one. The free trial is the simpler route.

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1. Add the skills (Replit, Settings, Personalization)

A skill is a short instruction file that teaches the Replit Agent how to do one thing well. You add them once, then the Agent pulls in the right one when it is relevant, or you call one by name.

1. In Replit, open Settings, then Personalization.
2. Add the skills one by one: for each folder under skills/ in this repo, add its SKILL.md as a new skill. Six in total.
3. That is it. Replit reads each skill’s name and description, and loads the full instructions only when they fit what you are doing. You can also call one directly by typing its name in the Agent chat, for example /brainstorming.

The six skills, and what each one is for: