approach-briefing

approach-briefing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deepskyai/agent-tools. It costs 167 tokens per session (1,811 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that reads an instrument-approach plate—a flight procedure chart—and turns it into a structured briefing for pilots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brief ILS, LOC, LPV, RNAV, VOR, NDB, and RNP approaches from image or PDF plates.
Why use it?
It helps pilots find procedure details such as minimums, transitions, and missed-approach instructions in a consistent format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to brief ILS, LOC, LPV, RNAV, VOR, NDB, and RNP approaches from image or PDF plates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deepskyai/agent-tools/approach-briefing
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 deepskyai/agent-tools --skill approach-briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepskyai/agent-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,811 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 $0.00167 $0.01811
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00181

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0c112d68f2f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

approach-briefing 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/deepsky_brief.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/approach-briefing/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Approach Briefing Generator

Converts an instrument-approach plate into a structured briefing. No external dependencies required in default mode — the agent uses its own vision.

When to invoke

  • The user shares an image or PDF of an approach plate.
  • The user asks to "brief the approach", "what are the mins", "what's the missed", "which transition", "read this plate", or similar.
  • The user compares two plates at the same airport ("ILS vs RNAV for 28R").
  • The user supplies a plate URL from d-TPP, Jeppesen, or an AIP.

Extraction workflow

Follow these three steps in order. Do not skip step 1.

Step 1 — Verify the plate

Before extracting anything, confirm:

  • Airport & runway match what the user asked about (ICAO ID + runway).
  • Procedure title matches (e.g. "ILS OR LOC RWY 28R", "RNAV (GPS) RWY 13").
  • Effective date / cycle is current. If the plate shows an AIRAC cycle older than today, warn the pilot: the plate may be out of date.

If any of these is off, stop and ask the user to confirm before briefing.

Step 2 — Extract into the JSON schema

Fill in every field of references/briefing-schema.json that is present on the plate. Use null for anything not shown. Consult references/plate-reading-guide.md for where each field typically lives on FAA / Jeppesen / ICAO AIP layouts. Specific gotchas:

  • Frequencies — include only frequencies published on the plate. Distinguish approach, tower, ground, ATIS/AWOS, CTAF as applicable.
  • Minima — extract every published line (S-ILS, S-LOC, CIRCLING, LPV, LNAV/VNAV, LNAV) with DA/MDA and visibility for each category (A/B/C/D). Do not average or invent values.
  • MSA — note the reference fix and sector altitudes. If the MSA is a single 25 NM circle, mark sectored: false.
  • Missed approach — extract as a single string of the plate's written instructions plus structured holding (fix, inbound course, leg time or distance, turn direction).
  • Notes — capture every boxed or asterisked note verbatim. These often contain cold-temperature corrections, DME substitutions, circling restrictions, or NOTAM references.
  • Units — keep whatever units the plate uses (ft / m / nm / km). Do not convert silently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 145 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 0c112d68f2f8

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approach-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepskyai/agent-tools (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 1,811 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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