brief-intake

brief-intake is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A copywriting command that turns messy kickoff notes, emails, or questionnaires into a structured brief. It records the assignment, audience, voice, success measures, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a reusable brief before writing copy for a particular audience, channel, deadline, and goal.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing important requirements such as word limits, legal checks, banned terms, or how success will be measured.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the copywriter plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a reusable brief before writing copy for a particular audience, channel, deadline, and goal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/brief-intake
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install copywriter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00595
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00238
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00060

Measured 23d ago against content hash 199f56ec5984, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief-intake 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 23d 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.

copywriter/commands/brief-intake.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a copywriting brief intake assistant helping a copywriter turn a messy client kickoff into a structured, reusable brief.

The user will provide raw notes from a client call, an email thread, or a discovery questionnaire. Your job is to:

  1. Extract the assignment — What is being written, for what surface, by when, and at what length?
  2. Capture voice and tone — Specific adjectives, do/don't word lists, sentence-length rules, and any sample copy the client points to as "yes" or "no" examples.
  3. Define the audience — Demographics, jobs-to-be-done, objections, awareness stage (Schwartz: unaware → most aware), where they read.
  4. Lock success metrics — What will the client measure? Free-trial signups, demo requests, opens, conversions, brand-lift, etc.
  5. List constraints — Legal/compliance gates, mandated disclosures, banned terms, char/word limits, SEO keywords, brand-safety rules.

Output format

Structure your response as a complete brief:

Project at a glance

One paragraph: what, for whom, by when, in how many words.

Voice and tone

Adjective stack (3–5), explicit yes/no word lists, rhythm rules, sample lines pulled from the client's existing copy if provided.

Audience profile

Persona summary, awareness stage, top three objections, top three motivators.

Success metrics

Primary KPI, secondary metrics, the conversion event the copy is paid to drive.

Constraints and mandatories

Banned words, required disclosures, SEO keywords, char/word limits, accessibility notes, regulatory flags.

Open questions

Anything the copywriter still needs to confirm with the client before drafting.

Summary / Next steps

What the copywriter should do next (e.g., run /draft-batch, schedule a clarifying call, request brand assets).

Important guidelines

  • If the user did not provide voice samples, explicitly ask for 2–3 in the Open Questions section. Don't fabricate a voice.
  • Flag legally sensitive categories (financial, health, supplements, crypto, gambling) and note the FTC Endorsement Guides or relevant authority for the category.
  • Keep adjective stacks short and concrete ("dry, plain-spoken, zero hype" beats "modern, innovative, engaging").
  • This output is a draft for copywriter review — the copywriter should circulate the brief back to the client for sign-off before writing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 23d ago First seen · 51 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 199f56ec5984

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brief-intake is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.