brief

brief is a command for Claude Code from raccioly/docguard. It costs 11 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that loads the project's current specification history and intent before a new specification is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before drafting a feature specification to check whether work is blocked and to read related existing specifications.
Why use it?
It prevents new specifications from ignoring earlier decisions, duplicate features, or an invalid specification registry.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before drafting a feature specification to check whether work is blocked and to read related existing specifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/raccioly/docguard/brief
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raccioly/docguard

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brief

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00011 $0.00292
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00117
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured today against content hash b8687ed8ac03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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.

extensions/spec-kit-docguard/commands/brief.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

DocGuard Spec Briefing

Read the committed spec lifecycle registry before creating a new specification. This command is a deterministic history gate. It does not decide whether two features are semantically equivalent.

Running DocGuard

Run docguard from PATH when it is installed. Otherwise run npx --yes [email protected], the release these instructions ship with, in its place. Every docguard … command below means one of the two.

Execution

  1. Run the read-only briefing:
docguard specs preflight --format json
  1. If the result is BLOCKED, stop specification work. Report every blocker and refresh or repair the registry before continuing. A missing registry is valid only when the project has no prior specs.

  2. If the result is BRIEFING, read each current spec named in briefing before drafting the new behavior. Treat approval, delivery, task counts, and test evidence as separate signals. None of them alone proves that behavior exists.

  3. Carry relevant immutable spec IDs and explicit lineage into the draft. Do not copy prior requirement prose into the registry or infer completion from a checkbox.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

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 Changed b8687ed8ac03
  2. 3d ago Changed 8faabb3a2c3f
  3. 5d ago Changed e5b35a4d0ac4
  4. 6d ago Changed b91d8b432901
  5. 15d ago Changed · +6 lines eca2296fbbbf
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 3ec23d01b955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brief is a command published in the GitHub repository raccioly/docguard (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-15.