init-brief

A conversational setup command for creating a BriefLoop workspace, which is a project folder used to organize research and business briefs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather setup answers, create an onboarding.json file, initialize a workspace, and show the next command to run.
Why use it?
It collects the required business details in plain language instead of asking you to edit configuration files or remember command options.

Command for Claude Code

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/stahl-g/briefloop/init-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Stahl-G/briefloop

Made for: Claude Code.

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 270 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 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash c6713f70acb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-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 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.

.claude/commands/init-brief.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Initialize Brief Workspace

Initialize a briefloop workspace using conversational onboarding.

Rules:

  1. Ask the user at most 4 plain-language business questions.
  2. Do not use AskUserQuestion for required free-text fields.
  3. Do not ask the user to edit YAML, JSON, schema, or CLI flags.
  4. Never ask the user to paste API keys into chat. For live search, explain all options: Tavily, Exa, Brave, Firecrawl, Serper, runtime_websearch, or configure_later. If an API backend is chosen, tell the user to set the key in .env or shell.
  5. Do not use hidden defaults for required business fields. If the user says "unknown", "default", or "choose for me" for optional fields, choose safe defaults, but keep company, industry/theme, task/title, audience, language, cadence, source style, output style explicit.
  6. Create onboarding.json in the current working directory. If writing there fails, create .mabw-onboarding/onboarding.json and pass that exact path to the CLI.
  7. Run:
briefloop init <workspace-path> --from-onboarding onboarding.json

Show only:

  • plain-language setup summary
  • created workspace path
  • created files
  • next command
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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c6713f70acb6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init-brief is a command published in the GitHub repository Stahl-G/briefloop (9 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 270 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.

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