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# Briefing Internals
This document describes the implemented briefing package boundary.
## Purpose
`internal/briefing` builds structured report-specific briefing packages from
forecast summaries and report metadata. The package currently implements Daily
Today, Daily Tomorrow, 3-Day Outlook, Weekend Outlook, and Storm Report
briefing content.
## Inputs and Outputs
Inputs:
- resolved report definition and valid period
- forecast bundle
- derived forecast summary or summaries
- configured units and timezone
Output:
- `briefing.Package` JSON containing common metadata and report-specific
briefing content
## Boundaries
- Briefings are structured weather facts and context for later prompt input.
- This package does not fetch weather data, compare prior snapshots, build
`scriptorium` data packages, or render final report prose.
## Behavior
- Common metadata includes schema version, RunID, report ID, variant, prompt ID,
generation time, units, timezone, valid period, source location, source
provenance, hashes, and source warnings.
- Daily content includes bottom-line inputs, daypart summaries, relevant alerts,
outdoor window inputs, narrative periods, discussion context, and weather
story context when available.
- Daily Tomorrow also includes planning inputs for morning readiness,
commute/school/workday concerns, and what may change overnight.
- 3-Day content includes one summary per local day or partial day, with overall
character, temperature range, precipitation, wind, risk, outdoor-window, and
alert inputs, plus broader discussion and weather-story context when
available.
- Weekend content uses the same daily outlook summaries and adds planning
inputs for best outdoor windows, worst weather windows, rain/storm timing,
comfort concerns, and confidence or uncertainty context.
- Storm content uses the explicit event window and includes event headline
inputs, hazards, most-likely scenario inputs, reasonable worst-case inputs,
confidence and uncertainty inputs, watch items, active alerts, relevant
hourly and narrative forecast periods, and available discussion or weather
story context.
- Briefing JSON is written atomically by `briefing.Save`.
## Failure Behavior
- Daily briefing construction requires a Daily report definition and a derived
daily forecast summary.
- 3-Day briefing construction requires a 3-Day report definition and at least
one derived daily summary in the outlook period.
- Weekend briefing construction requires a Weekend report definition and at
least one derived daily summary in the weekend period.
- Storm briefing construction requires a Storm Report definition and a forecast
bundle.
- Save failures include path and operation context.
## Tests
Inspect:
- `internal/briefing/daily_test.go`
- `internal/briefing/three_day_test.go`
- `internal/briefing/weekend_test.go`
- `internal/briefing/storm_test.go`
- `internal/app/app_test.go`
- `internal/cli/root_test.go`
## Invariants
- Weather facts come from normalized and derived source data.
- Briefing output remains JSON-inspectable.
- LLM prompt input packaging and `scriptorium` execution remain outside this
boundary.