🧍 productivity recipe
Daily Standup Prep AI Routine for Mac
Walk into standup ready with yesterday's wins, today's plan, and your blockers, drafted for you.
Who it's for
Engineers and team members who want their standup update written for them so they can show up prepared, not scrambling.
What lands in your morning
A weekday standup update drafted in the classic format: what you did yesterday, what you are doing today, and what is blocking you, pulled from your Jira and calendar.
The exact prompt
Paste this into a new routine.
Draft my daily standup update. Look at my Jira issues I touched or closed yesterday and my calendar for what I worked on, then write three short sections: "Yesterday" with what I completed, "Today" with what I am picking up based on my assigned issues and meetings, and "Blockers" with anything flagged or waiting on someone else. Keep it to a few bullets per section so I can read it out in under a minute.
Schedule
Weekday mornings at 8:30 AM (Monday to Friday)
cron: 30 8 * * 1-5
Intelligence
Balanced tier
Set per routine to control spend.
Required connectors
Set it up
Running in under a minute.
Step 01
Install Routines
Download the DMG, drag to Applications, and sign in with Google once.
Step 02
Connect Jira and Calendar
Connect Atlassian via its remote MCP for your issues and connect Google Calendar with one-click OAuth.
Step 03
Pick the Daily Standup Prep recipe
Choose Daily Standup Prep from the library, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 04
Set the schedule
Keep the default weekday 8:30 AM so your update is ready just before standup.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
Standup · 8:30 AM
Done- Yesterday: closed the auth bug, reviewed two PRs.
- Today: pick up the rate-limit ticket, design sync at 11.
- Blockers: waiting on infra for the staging deploy.
Saved to your local output history · never uploaded
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
What does the standup prep pull from?
Your Jira issues touched or closed recently and your Google Calendar. It can also fold in your local meeting notes and memory so "yesterday" reflects what you actually discussed.
Can I run it without Jira?
Yes. With just Calendar connected, or even no connectors, it drafts the update from your calendar and local meeting notes. Jira simply makes the "yesterday" and "today" sections sharper.
Can it match my team's standup format?
Yes. Edit the prompt to use your sections and wording, or to post the update to Slack after you review it.
Is my work data kept private?
Yes. Connector tokens are encrypted in local SQLite, the routine runs on your Mac, and the update saves to local output history. Nothing is uploaded.
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Run Daily Standup Prep on your Mac.
Install Routines, paste the prompt, set the schedule. It runs locally and the output stays on your machine.
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