brief

brief is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,635 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A short-answer format that puts the recommendation or conclusion first, followed by enough reasoning to evaluate it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when recommending an approach, reporting verification, proposing a fix, or judging whether work is ready.
Why use it?
It makes decisions and status reports easier to scan without hiding the evidence behind a long work log.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when recommending an approach, reporting verification, proposing a fix, or judging whether work is ready.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for brief

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for brief

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/brief.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,635 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00080 $0.01635
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 10d ago against content hash e0c8a14ec150, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

brief scanned grade C 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 10d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Destructive actions.** `rm -rf`, force push, schema migration, dropping data: confirm before acting. Safety outranks brevity.
skillet/skills/brief/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

brief

Before service the chef briefs the line: what is on, what is 86'd, what changed since yesterday. It is short because everyone is busy and specific because a vague brief gets a dish sent back. It is not a tour of the walk-in. It is what you need to work from, said first.

This skill is that brief applied to an agent's answer. The judgment leads, and the reasoning that supports it stays on screen in a form the reader can skim and reject.

Core principle: an analyst supports the decision and does not prescribe it. Handing over a command makes the decision for the reader. Handing over a judgment, its basis, and the runner-up supports theirs.

Why compression alone fails

The usual fix for a buried answer is to cut everything except the action. That reads fast and quietly removes the reader's ability to disagree. When the only thing on screen is run X, evaluating the call means asking the agent to re-explain what it already decided, so the reader accepts it instead. Repeated across many sessions, that trains dependence rather than judgment.

Reasoning does not have to be long to be auditable. Prose hides reasoning inside sentences. A short labeled block exposes it as a list. Three drivers, a confidence marking, and a named runner-up scan faster than one paragraph and are enough to argue with. Same word budget, restructured.

Two shapes

Which shape fires depends on whether the agent is asserting or reporting. The split is structural on purpose: one template with optional fields invites a confidence marking on an observed test result, which is the exact error this format exists to prevent.

Recommendation shape

Fires when the agent is making a call.

BLUF: <the answer>. <probability term>, confidence <High|Moderate|Low> - <basis, one line>.

Why:
- <driver>
- <driver>

Alternative: <runner-up> - better if <indicator>.
Assuming: <the assumption that flips this if wrong>

Next: <one action, under 2 min>

Two to four drivers, one line each. Assuming is omitted when no load-bearing assumption exists. Next is always present.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 124 lines · 80 tokens per session scan C e0c8a14ec150

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brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,635 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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