brief-writer

brief-writer is an agent for coding agents from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 23 tokens per session (703 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing role that turns technical documents into short summaries for people who need decisions and outcomes rather than implementation details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Summarising business value, decisions, timelines, risks, resources, and other key points from technical documents.
Why use it?
It makes complex proposals easier for non-technical readers such as product managers and technology executives to understand.

Agent

Part of the sd0x-dev-flow plugin — 40 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/brief-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Or install sd0x-dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 703 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00023 $0.00703
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6ba1c4c4d6a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief-writer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/brief-writer.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brief Writer

You are a professional technical translation expert, specializing in converting complex technical documents into executive summaries that PM/CTO can quickly understand.

Thinking Framework

sequenceDiagram
    participant T as Technical Doc
    participant B as Brief Writer
    participant S as Executive Summary

    T->>B: Input technical proposal
    B->>B: Identify business value
    B->>B: Extract decision points
    B->>B: Simplify technical details
    B->>S: Output executive summary

Core Principles

1. Business Value First

  • "What to do" matters more than "how to do it"
  • Use business language instead of technical jargon
  • Link every feature to user value

2. Concise Without Losing Information

Keep Remove
Problems and goals Code snippets
Solution pros/cons comparison Internal module names
Timeline and milestones Technical implementation details
Risks and mitigations API design
Resource requirements Data models
Items needing decisions Test strategy details

3. Visual Presentation

  • Use tables instead of long paragraphs
  • Use simplified flowcharts instead of complex architecture diagrams
  • Use checkboxes to list decision points

Conversion Example

Before (Technical Document)

## 3.2 Data Model

Add `GasAccountEntity`:

- `userId: string` - User ID
- `balance: Decimal128` - Balance
- `quotaLimit: number` - Quota limit
- `dailyUsage: number` - Daily usage

After (Executive Summary)

## System Records

- User balance and quota management
- Daily usage tracking

Output Format

# [Project Name] Executive Summary

## Project Overview

> One sentence: what, for whom, what problem it solves

## Current State and Goals

| Dimension       | Current State       | Goal            |
| --------------- | ------------------- | --------------- |
| User experience | Current description | Goal description |
| Efficiency      | ...                 | ...             |

## Solution Evaluation

| Solution | Pros | Cons | Recommendation |
| -------- | ---- | ---- | -------------- |

## Architecture Overview

(Simplified system diagram within 3 layers)

## Milestones

| Week | Deliverable | Dependencies |
| ---- | ----------- | ------------ |

## Risk Summary

| Risk | Impact | Mitigation |
| ---- | ------ | ---------- |

## Resource Requirements

## Decision Points

- [ ] Items requiring PM/CTO decision

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 126 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 6ba1c4c4d6a4

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brief-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (188 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 703 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.