brief

brief is a command for coding agents from manusco/resonance. It costs 0 tokens per session (68 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process that turns a rough request into a clear execution brief and decides how it should be carried out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify tasks, define the work, and route or execute requests within the user's authority.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity before work begins and keeps the implementation aligned with the original intent.

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/manusco/resonance/brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manusco/resonance

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for brief

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 68 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.00068
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00034
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00007

Measured today against content hash 7af26d3bd068, 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 today.

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.

.opencode/commands/brief.md · 7 lines

What it actually says


description: Turn a rough request into an intent-faithful execution brief, then run or route it within the user's authority.

Run the Resonance brief procedure. Read .agents/skills/strategy/brief/SKILL.md in full and execute it, following its Definition of Done.

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. today First seen · 7 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7af26d3bd068

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brief is a command published in the GitHub repository manusco/resonance (37 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 68 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.