brief

brief is a plugin for Claude Code from backchainai/backchain-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 165 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive HTML document for discussing plans, specifications, comparisons, reviews, and recommendations with an operator agent. It keeps the content in one self-contained web page with controls for decisions and copying an execution prompt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to present a plan, compare options, review annotated material, or write a recommendation. Readers can make decisions in the page and copy the resulting execution prompt.
Why use it?
It makes long planning documents easier to review and act on than a plain block of Markdown. Decisions and the prompt for the next step stay together.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to present a plan, compare options, review annotated material, or write a recommendation. Readers can make decisions in the page and copy the resulting execution prompt.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add backchainai/backchain-plugins
/plugin install 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/backchainai/backchain-plugins

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 165 tokens a session between them.
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.
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 1mo 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.

brief/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 23 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "brief",
  "description": "Interactive HTML briefs for intermediate operator-agent discussion. Renders plans, specs, option comparisons, annotated reviews, and recommendations as a single self-contained .html file with inline decision controls and a copy-execution-prompt button, instead of a flat markdown wall.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Chris Krough",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://dev.krough.org"
  },
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": [
    "html-brief",
    "interactive",
    "decision-support",
    "planning",
    "spec",
    "agentskills"
  ],
  "category": "productivity",
  "repository": "https://github.com/backchainai/backchain-plugins",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/backchainai/backchain-plugins/tree/main/brief"
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 165 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 23 lines scan A 8cbf10b8850e

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brief is a plugin published in the GitHub repository backchainai/backchain-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.