Daily run — instructions for the scheduled session

This is what the scheduled Claude Code session does each morning. It is written for that session to follow directly.

Steps

  1. Read bargain-hunt/hunt/PROMPT.md and bargain-hunt/hunt/watchlist.json from the main branch of brettadams0/brettadams0.github.io.

  2. Do the work described in PROMPT.md, using web search for every figure. Do not answer from memory. This is the whole job — the value is in having already done the reading before he picks up the phone.

  3. Build the JSON object exactly as specified at the end of PROMPT.md. Validate it before publishing:
    • it parses as JSON
    • brief.candidates is a non-empty array
    • every candidate has ticker, verdict, and causeType, and each verdict / causeType is one of the allowed values
    • no figure was invented — anything unconfirmed is null or "n/a"

  4. Publish it to the bargain-hunt-data branch as brief.json at the repository root. That branch is an orphan holding only this file, so the daily commits stay out of main’s history:

    git fetch origin bargain-hunt-data
git checkout bargain-hunt-data      # or: git checkout --orphan bargain-hunt-data && git rm -rf .
# write brief.json
git add brief.json
git commit -m "Brief for $(date -u +%Y-%m-%d)"
git push origin bargain-hunt-data
  5. If anything fails, publish nothing and stop. A stale brief that is clearly labelled as stale is much better than a wrong or empty one. The app shows the previous brief with its real date and a “this brief is from Wednesday” bar, so doing nothing degrades honestly.

Notes