Example: Daily Report

Compile timestamped conversation logs, agent sessions, IM messages, collaborative documents, meeting notes, and task records into concise, evidence-grounded daily reports: one page per day.

Skill source: examples/compile/ov-compile-skills/daily-report

Check the prerequisites and run these commands from the OpenViking repository root. Replace the source directory with your own material.

Step 1: Prepare the sources

Daily-report sources are usually sessions, messages, or documents already in OpenViking. To import a batch of records from local:

ov add-resource ./work-logs --to viking://resources/work-logs --wait
ov ls -r viking://resources/work-logs

Step 2: Add the Skill

ov add-skill examples/compile/ov-compile-skills/daily-report -p viking://agent/skills --wait
ov skills list
# → viking://agent/skills/daily-report

Step 3: Run compile

Spell out the date, timezone, report subject, and emphasis in --instruction — the Skill uses it to scope and prioritize:

ov compile \
  --from viking://resources/work-logs \
  --to viking://resources/daily-report \
  --skill viking://agent/skills/daily-report \
  --instruction "Daily report for 2026-08-20 in Asia/Shanghai, focused on my outcomes and decisions"

For several days at once, put the date range in --instruction (each day is still its own page):

ov compile \
  --from viking://resources/work-logs \
  --to viking://resources/daily-report \
  --skill viking://agent/skills/daily-report \
  --instruction "One daily report per day for 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-20 in Asia/Shanghai"

The command returns a task_id immediately:

ov task status cmp_01abc      # progress and final result
ov task cancel cmp_01abc      # cooperative cancel

Step 4: Inspect the output

Reports are plain Markdown — just read them:

ov tree viking://resources/daily-report
ov read viking://resources/daily-report/2026-08-20.md

Related docs

• Context Compilation Overview
• Knowledge Distillation example
• Agent Runtime API