Build your children their own daily AI news show

I'd like to build a daily AI news show for my children, following this guide: https://www.digitalpeople.online/agent-builder/daily-news-for-kids

Please open and read the whole page first, including the setup prompt and the daily prompt on it. Then:

1. Run the setup prompt with me: if you can read my calendar, start there, then interview me in short rounds and write our show playbook.
2. Save the playbook somewhere you can read it every morning, with a "Scripts" folder next to it for each day's script.
3. If you can create scheduled tasks, set up the daily prompt to run every day at about 5am, filled in with our details, and run it once now so I can see the first episode. If you can't, tell me exactly where to paste it and what to fill in.
4. Walk me through making the first video in Gemini Notebook, one step at a time.

If you can't open web pages, tell me, and I'll paste the two prompts from the page instead.

You are going to help me set up a daily news show for my children, made by AI. Each morning another AI task will research the news and write an 8-minute script for my children, which I will turn into a video in Gemini Notebook. Your job right now is to interview me and then write the "show playbook": the rules that daily task will follow every day.

First, if you can read my calendar, look through the last 12 months and the next 12 months. Note family trips we have taken or are planning, the children's clubs and activities, term dates and holidays, and the events we do every year (festivals, sports days, birthday parties, seasonal traditions). Skip work and private appointments. Play back what you found as a short list, leaving out school names and locations, then use it to shape your questions so I only fill the gaps. Use the calendar for ideas and timing only: no school names, addresses or birthdays go into the playbook or the show.

Then interview me in short rounds of 3 to 5 questions. Wait for my answers before moving on. Offer examples so I can answer quickly. Skip anything I say I don't want to answer.

Round 1 - The children
- First names only (please do not ask for surnames, school names, addresses or dates of birth - none of these should ever go into the show).
- Age and school year of each.
- Each child's interests: hobbies, sports and teams they follow, music, books, shows, games, characters, animals.
- Anything each is learning at school this term.

Round 2 - Their world
- The country or countries they belong to, and any family links abroad (for example "Mum is from New York, grandparents in New Jersey").
- The city or area they live in, and places they love to go (parks, museums, theatres).
- Pets, and family members who can be mentioned by first name.
- Where and how they will watch (tablet, laptop, phone; with a parent?).

Round 3 - What the show covers
- The mix you want: local, national and world news, science, nature, space, sport, AI and technology, things to do at the weekend.
- How much "grown-up" news: none, gentle, or the real big stories told at their level.
- Topics to avoid completely. Suggest a default "never" list: graphic violence, terror attack detail, crimes against children, sexual content, suicide, gore, death counts.
- Anything either child is anxious about, so the show can steer clear or handle it with extra care.

Round 4 - Values and tone
- What values the show should teach out loud. Suggest a default: be kind; peaceful disagreement (voting, debating, petitions, marching) is good, and violence, stealing and bullying are wrong whoever does it; facts are facts; fair elections; most people on every side are decent.
- Politics: suggest a default - explain policy arguments with one fair sentence for each side, never take sides between parties, and name extremes factually whichever side they are on.
- Tone: warm, funny, curious, never babyish. Any words, catchphrases or running jokes to include?

Round 5 - Format and delivery
- Show name, my time zone, and the time the script must be in my inbox (for example 6am, about an hour before we watch).
- Version 1 (I make the video each morning) or Version 2 (you make it in my browser). For Version 2, my Gemini notebook link.
- The video style to use in Gemini (suggest: "modern editorial illustration for bright 7 year olds, like a quality children's newspaper; not babyish").
- Length (suggest about 8 minutes, around 1,300 to 1,500 words).
- Who gets the morning email (email addresses).
- Extras: a word of the day, a maths puzzle, a 3-question quiz, a "breakfast table question" to argue about, a pet's weird fact of the day (or an animal fact if there is no pet), a Saturday week in review with a 10-question quiz and prizes.
- Spelling lists or school words to weave in?

Then write the playbook as one clear document with these sections:
1. Audience - each child, their interests, their world (first names only), and their year: trips, clubs, holidays and family traditions, so the show can build up to them and look back on them.
2. Editorial rules - the mix, tone, accuracy ("every fact from a named, reputable source checked that morning; if unsure, say we don't know yet"), privacy (first names only, never school, surname, address or birthdays).
3. Big news, toned down not tuned out - tell hard stories in four beats: what happened; why; what is right and wrong here; who is helping and what happens next, ending with why the children are safe. At most one hard story a day, never first or last. Pictures can show aftermath, clean-up and helpers with a line explaining them; never violence happening, injured or dead people, or frightened children.
4. Teach before you tell - the first time a big idea appears (election, government, tax, budget, court, company, protest, ceasefire, free press, bias), stop and explain it in 3 to 5 sentences using the children's own lives; afterwards a one-line reminder. Include a list of 30 or so big ideas about how society works, and aim to cover each at least once every 90 days, using the news as the hook.
5. The "never" list.
6. Running order - Hello (names, day, weather, teaser); The big story; Three stops on the map (home, another country they belong to, the rest of the world or space); How the world works (one explainer, rotating: politics, money, science and nature, space or history, a question the children asked); Robot corner (one AI item: what it can do and one thing it cannot); each child's pick (alternate who goes first); Good news and goodbye (quiz, breakfast table question, the pet's weird fact). Weekend things to do on Thursdays and Fridays. Saturday: week in review plus a 10-question quiz on things they were actually told that week.
7. Pictures - mark "Picture:" under each segment, and "REAL PHOTO of ..." where a real photograph should appear (4 to 6 a day: real people, places and things).
8. The morning email - what goes in it.
9. A log of decisions and feedback, to add to over time.

Finish by telling me in two lines what to do next: save the playbook where my daily task can read it, make a "Scripts" folder next to it (tell me exactly where both are), and paste in the daily prompt.

Make today's episode of my children's daily news show, following the show playbook exactly. It must be in my inbox by [6am] [your time zone] every day, including weekends and holidays. I am not watching this run, so do not ask questions: make the sensible call and say what you decided at the end.

1. READ FIRST
- The show playbook. It is the authority on the children, the rules, the "never" list and the running order.
- The last two scripts in the Scripts folder, so you do not repeat a story, you follow up stories already started ("remember yesterday's rocket? It launched!"), and you keep the same voice and layout.
- On Saturdays, read every script from the past week instead.
- If you can see my calendar: the next 7 days of family and children's events only (trips, clubs, matches) that the show can link a story to ("you're off to the seaside on Saturday, so here's why the tide goes out"). Never mention school names, addresses or birthdays.

2. RESEARCH (today's news, today's sources)
- Search the web for this morning's news. Favour careful, mainstream sources: for example the BBC, Reuters, AP, NPR and quality children's news (BBC Newsround, First News, The Week Junior, Time for Kids), plus NASA and space news, zoos and museums, and local listings for things to do.
- Check the front pages: if one story is leading everywhere and touches the children's world, it belongs in the show, told the playbook's way.
- Get today's local weather.
- Every news fact in the script must come from a named, reputable source you opened this morning. The word of the day, the maths puzzle and the big-idea explainers do not need a fresh source, but must be accurate. Nothing invented to fill a slot. If something is uncertain, leave it out or say "we don't know yet".

3. WRITE THE SCRIPT
- One document, titled "[Show name] - [Weekday] [date]".
- Start with this instruction block, word for word: "This is the complete script for today's children's news show. The audience is [first names and ages]. A parent watches with them. Tell the stories in this order, in this friendly voice, using these facts only. Speak to the children by name. Use short sentences. Wherever this script says REAL PHOTO, show that real photograph if it is in the sources; otherwise illustrate it. Never show anything frightening."
- Follow the playbook's running order. About 1,300 to 1,500 words (8 minutes).
- Short sentences. Every big number made concrete ("enough people to fill a football stadium six times"). One word of the day. A maths puzzle with the answer at the end.
- Teach a few clear, checkable facts each day (a name, a number, a place, what a word means), because Saturday's quiz is drawn from them.
- How the world works: pick one big idea from the playbook's list. Use today's news if it touches one; otherwise choose the idea that has waited longest. First time: a 3 to 5 sentence explanation from the children's own lives.
- Under each segment add "Picture:" directions, and "REAL PHOTO of ..." for 4 to 6 real people, places or things.
- Privacy: first names and pets only. No surname, school name, address or birthdays anywhere.
- End with a 3-question quiz (with answers in brackets), a breakfast table question that gives each child a side to argue, and the pet's weird fact (or an animal fact if there is no pet).

4. SAFETY PASS
Check the script against the playbook's "never" list, the four-beats rule for hard stories, the picture rules and the fairness rules (one fair sentence for each side of a policy argument, no party sides). Fix anything that fails. Then save the finished script in the Scripts folder, named "[YYYY-MM-DD] - [Show name]", so tomorrow's run can read it.

5. SATURDAYS INSTEAD
Write a week-in-review script (about 10 to 11 minutes) that retells the week's best stories, explainers, picks and words, plus one fresh story from this morning. Then write a 10-question quiz on things the children were actually told this week: spread across the days and segments, at least one AI item, at least one number for the maths fan, one or two words of the day, nothing about violence or casualties. Three answer choices each, read-aloud simple, with an answer key. Every quiz answer must be stated plainly in the review script: check each one.

6. EMAIL ME
Send one email to [email addresses]. Subject: "[Show name] is ready - [Weekday] [date]".
Include, in this order:
- The script, ready to copy (or as an attachment).
- The line to paste into Gemini's "What should the video focus on?" box: "Use only today's script source. Present it as a daily news show for [names and ages], one warm narrator, speaking to them by name. Follow the script's running order and facts exactly, add no other stories or facts, and keep every segment, including the quiz. Show each REAL PHOTO at the point the script names it. Aim for about 8 minutes (about 10 on Saturdays)."
- The running order as a short list.
- The quiz answers and the maths puzzle answer.
- A one-line parent heads-up for any hard story: which story, how it was told, and one line I can use if they ask more.
- Links to any real video clips worth watching together (a goal, a launch), since the video cannot include them.
- On Saturdays: the quiz, with a "Parents only - answer key".

7. FINISH
Reply with a short summary: the stories you chose and their sources, the big idea you taught, and anything you left out and why.

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8. MAKE THE VIDEO
Open my Gemini Notebook at [notebook link]. Add today's script as a source (and the real photos as image sources, using only freely licensed images such as those on Wikimedia Commons, named "REAL PHOTO - <what it shows>"). Select only today's sources, in the Sources panel and in the video dialog's own source picker. Open Studio, then Video Overview: Explainer format, my usual style, and the focus line above. Generate. When it has finished, rename it "[date] - [Show name]" and put the notebook link in the email as "Watch today's episode". If anything fails or it is not ready by [6.50am], send the email anyway with the script, and say plainly what happened.