brief

A command that creates a short action summary from the current work session, including the next step, a warning, and what it connects to.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide what to do next, spot a likely failure and its fix, and optionally expand the summary into a plan or status board.
Why use it?
It makes the immediate plan visible when work is spread across conversation notes, status files, and Git information.

Command

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 commands/data-wise/craft/brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Data-Wise/craft
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 2,656 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 $0.02656
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01328
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00266

Measured yesterday against content hash 611d43326540, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/brief.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/craft:brief

Generate the 3-line action block from live session context. Invoke explicitly when you want the block — replaces the auto-fire behavior formerly in research-session-defaults.md.

Block format

Next step:     [concrete executable action]
Watch out for: [failure condition → exact mitigation]
Connects to:   [exact artifact — branch, package, file, PR, or —]

Flags

Flag Effect
(none) 3-line block only
--plan Block + propose approach + 2–3 questions + mini-plan
--verbose Expand each line with 1–2 sentences of context
--show-context Display context sources before generating
--board Ownership/state table above the 3-line block
--board --plan Board + 3-line block + planning expansion
--board --verbose Board + verbose-expanded 3-line block

When invoked

Step 1: Synthesize context

Read sources in priority order. Stop at the first source that gives enough signal:

  1. Conversation history (primary) — what topic was just discussed, what problem was active?

  2. .STATUS next: field (secondary) — what's on deck?

    grep "^next:" .STATUS 2>/dev/null | head -1
    
  3. Git branch + recent commits (tertiary) — what's being worked on?

    git branch --show-current
    git log --oneline -3
    
  4. ORCHESTRATE file + open PRs (quaternary) — what's in flight?

    ls ORCHESTRATE-*.md 2>/dev/null | head -1
    gh pr list --author @me --state open --limit 3 2>/dev/null
    

Step 1.5: If --board flag — infer owner/state rows

Read two sources already fetched in Step 1:

Source A: ORCHESTRATE-*.md (if present) — parse numbered list items and classify each:

Pattern in item text Owner State
"auto", "agent will", "runs automatically", or git/CI shell commands Me 🟢 AUTO
"wait for CI", "checks", "pending", or gh pr with no user action needed External ⏳ WAITING
"merge", "approve", "decide", "review", "confirm", "choose" You 🔵 YOUR CALL
"blocked", "waiting on [external]" You 🔴 BLOCKED
Leading ✅ DONE — omit unless --verbose

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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. yesterday First seen · 326 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 611d43326540

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brief is a command published in the GitHub repository Data-Wise/craft (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,656 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 2026-08-31.