brief

brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 7xuanlu/wenlan. It costs 50 tokens per session (839 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of brief, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for reviewing pending Wenlan captures, revisions, or daemon refinements after a briefing or handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing up to four pending items, then accepting, dismissing, skipping, or editing them after the user gives explicit instructions.
Why use it?
It prevents unapproved changes by requiring a clear decision for each item and showing the queue in small batches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Listing up to four pending items, then accepting, dismissing, skipping, or editing them after the user gives explicit instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/7xuanlu/wenlan/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.

Any agent
npx skills add 7xuanlu/wenlan --skill brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/7xuanlu/wenlan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 839 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 26
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
How audits are shown
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00839
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00336
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00084

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 25b2a1c2cf41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

brief scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to brief — 44 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugin-codex/skills/brief/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/brief

Read one Space's current project snapshot. The daemon Brief is authoritative; ~/.wenlan/sessions/_status/*.md is only a one-way human-readable receipt and must never be read as product state.

1. Resolve the Space

raw_args="<the full argument string passed to /brief>"
space_arg="$(printf '%s\n' "$raw_args" | grep -oE 'space:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+' | head -1 | cut -d: -f2)"
topic_arg="$(printf '%s\n' "$raw_args" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]*space:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+[[:space:]]*/ /g' | sed -E 's/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$//g')"
# The resolver ships inside the installed plugin; the relative path only
# exists in a wenlan checkout.
resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
resolved="$("${resolver:-plugin-codex/bin/resolve-space.sh}" --cwd "$PWD" ${space_arg:+--arg "$space_arg"} 2>/dev/null)"
space="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f1)"
source_layer="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f2)"

Print Resolved space: <space> (from <source-layer>). If no Space resolves, print Resolved space: none (unscoped) and omit space.

2. Read the Brief

Call:

mcp__wenlan__brief(
  topic="<topic_arg only when the user supplied one>",
  space="<resolved only when non-empty>"
)

Do not invent or infer a topic when the argument is absent. No topic means the complete Brief alone. A topic means the same complete Brief plus a separate Related Context section scoped to that Space.

Brief reads never create state. If the state is brief_not_created, explain that the first /handoff update will create it. If the state is space_not_resolved, ask for a Space only when the working directory and configuration cannot resolve one safely.

Render the last-session summary, Active, Backlog, then Related Context only when returned. Keep stable item IDs and versions available for later /handoff reconciliation, but omit them from the normal user-facing list.

3. Pending revisions

Call:

mcp__wenlan__list_pending_revisions(limit=10)

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 81 lines · 50 tokens per session scan B 25b2a1c2cf41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository 7xuanlu/wenlan (79 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 839 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 91% identical to brief, differing in 44 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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