briefing

A project summary command that reports memory counts, categories, recent activity, common tags, and an overall summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a briefing for the current project, a named project, a directory, or all registered projects, with optional JSON output.
Why use it?
It gives you a quick view of what a project's stored knowledge contains and what has changed recently.

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/proticom/gnosys/briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proticom/gnosys
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 500 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 $0.00000 $0.00500
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00250
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash f260158ae2ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

briefing 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 2d 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.

docs/commands/briefing.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

gnosys briefing

Generate a project briefing: memory state summary, categories, recent activity, and top tags.

Usage

gnosys briefing
gnosys briefing <projectNameOrId>
gnosys briefing --project <id>
gnosys briefing --directory /path/to/project
gnosys briefing --all
gnosys briefing --json

Options

Option Description
-p, --project <id> Project ID (auto-detects if omitted)
-a, --all Generate briefings for all projects
-d, --directory <dir> Project directory for auto-detection
--json Output as JSON

Project resolution

For a single-project briefing (without --all):

  1. Positional projectNameOrId — matched by ID first, then by registered name
  2. --project <id>
  3. Current working directory auto-detection (optional --directory)

Output modes

All projects (--all, human): section per project with name and summary.

All projects (--all, JSON):

{ "count": 2, "briefings": [...] }

Single project (human): heading, directory, memory counts, categories, recent activity, top tags, summary.

Single project (--json): full briefing object from generateBriefing.

Errors

Condition Message
Central DB unavailable Central DB not available.
Positional name not found Project not found: "<name>". Run 'gnosys projects'...
No project detected No project specified and none detected.
Project ID not found Project not found: <id>
Other errors Error: <message>

Failure paths set process.exitCode = 1 and return through finally.

Validation

cd gnosys-public
npm run cli -- briefing --help
npx vitest run src/test/briefing-command-handler.test.ts
  • gnosys projects — list registered projects
  • gnosys status — broader project/system status views
  • gnosys ambiguity — cross-project query ambiguity check
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. 2d ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f260158ae2ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

briefing is a command published in the GitHub repository proticom/gnosys (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 500 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 2026-08-31.