This one needs
your desktop.

It is the morning texts and email thing. Working properly this time.

Your texts only exist on that machine, never in the cloud, which is exactly why it cannot run on here.

Six minutes, once, and then it just runs.

Email me this link

Show me what it does first

Every morning it reads the last day of your texts and email, sorts it artist by artist, and sends you one email: what changed, and what is waiting on you.

It runs on that machine every morning on a schedule, and it tells you plainly when something broke instead of going quiet.

Same digest.
Actually on schedule.

One paste. Six minutes. Then every morning, on time.

Every morning it reads the last day of your texts and email, sorts it artist by artist, and sends you one email: what changed, and what is waiting on you.

It runs on your own machine, not in the cloud, which is why the texts part actually works. Nothing is stored anywhere but here. Your messages go to Claude to write the summary, same as anything you would do in Claude yourself, and nowhere else. I never see any of it.

Setup

1. First: one minute in Terminal

This installs the engine your briefing runs on every morning, with no window open and nobody at the machine. Even if you never open Terminal again after today, this part has to exist. Open Terminal (Command Space, type Terminal), paste this, and give it a minute. It is Anthropic's official installer.

Paste into Terminal 
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

Then type claude, press Return, and sign in with the same Claude account you already have. If it says you are already set up, even better: straight to step 2.

2. Paste this into Claude Code 👇

Right there in the Terminal window where claude is running. Or, if you use the Claude desktop app and prefer a friendlier window, open its Code tab and paste it there instead. Both are Claude working on this Mac, and both do exactly the same thing.

The one place this cannot work is the claude.ai website, because the website's Claude is not on this machine and never sees your texts.

This is the only thing you will ever have to paste. Everything after it is questions.

Paste into Claude Code 
You are setting up Roll Call on this Mac.

Roll Call reads the last day of this person's texts and email, groups it by who
it is about, and emails them one short briefing each morning: what changed, and
what is waiting on them...

It will ask what time you want it, who to track, and where to send it. Then it sets everything up and runs once so you see a real digest before you get up.

3. The one fucky part

macOS will not let anything read Messages until you say so, so partway through it will stop and ask. Open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, then Full Disk Access, click the plus, press Command Shift G, and paste the exact path it gives you.

This is the step most likely to trip. If it does, it stops and tells you, it does not carry on pretending.

4. Gmail

It reads mail through the Gmail connector you have already got in Claude. If it is switched on, this step is nothing. If not, it tells you the one place to turn it on.

After that

  • It runs every morning at the time you picked, whether or not anyone is at the machine.
  • The subject line tells you the state before you open it.
  • Email lines click straight through to the thread.
  • Want it early, or you are out: open Claude on your phone, connect to this machine, say run roll call.
  • Anything looks off, type /rollcall in Claude.
  • Want it changed, just ask Claude. It is your machine and your setup.

P.S. I built this so that if it breaks, it will tell you it broke. No silent fails.

- H3