brief

A command that collects pending work from every tracked source and prints a queue of items needing the owner's attention. It also names the commands that could clear the highest-priority items, but does not run them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a daily review of pending items, to identify the next one or two actions, and to detect missing or unavailable inputs.
Why use it?
It gives a single view of what needs attention while showing whether any source could not be read. An incomplete sweep is explicitly reported as partial.

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/w2ur/claude-code-setup/brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/w2ur/claude-code-setup
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 529 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 $0.00031 $0.00529
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash b76ddcd053e4, 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 · 50 lines

What it actually says

Print the queue, then name what would clear it. Do not run any of the commands you name.

Step 1 — run the aggregator

~/.claude/scripts/intendant.sh

It is deterministic and no-model; you are only reading and routing its output.

Step 2 — read the exit code, and say what it means

exit meaning what to say
0 nothing needs the owner "Nothing needs you." Stop there.
1 the queue is non-empty, every source answered present the queue
2 at least one source could not be read present the queue and lead with what is unknown

Exit 2 is the one that matters. It means part of the sweep did not run, so the queue is incomplete by an unknown amount. Any SIGNAL LOST: line must be repeated at the top of your reply, in the owner's language, and the queue below it explicitly described as partial. Never summarise an exit-2 run as "not much to do today" — a short queue and a dead input look identical, which is the exact failure this script exists to prevent.

Step 3 — offer the one or two commands that clear the top items

Map, name at most two, and let the owner choose:

queue source command to offer
vigie — CI gate missing, env drift /tech-debt
vigie — plans past the archive cutoff /cleanup
jobs — an agent exited 2 read its log; the path is in jobs-inventory.sh --json

Rules

  • Report state. Never act. This command opens nothing, edits nothing, dispatches nothing. Naming a command is the whole job; the owner decides.
  • Do not re-derive the counts. The script owns them. Restating a number you did not read from its output is how prose drifts away from the artifact.
  • Keep it short. This is a queue you read in ten seconds, not a report.
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 · 50 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A b76ddcd053e4

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brief is a command published in the GitHub repository w2ur/claude-code-setup (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 529 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.