brd

A structured document for recording business requirements when work involves several teams, stakeholders, regulation, formal approval, or significant budget and timing concerns. It explains the business need and expected outcome separately from the technical design.

In plain words
What is it for?
For documenting problems, goals, stakeholders, compliance needs, milestones, budgets, and approval requirements in docs/brd/.
Why use it?
It helps stakeholders agree on scope and preserve the reasons for the work before implementation details change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/friedbotstudio/baseline/brd
Any agent
npx skills add friedbotstudio/baseline --skill brd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/friedbotstudio/baseline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 729 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 $0.00064 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5b2ab80180f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brd 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/brd/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BRD — Business Requirements Document

You are drafting a BRD. BRDs are heavier than intakes — they exist when a request needs explicit sign-off from named business stakeholders, and when the why and the what must survive independently of the how (the spec).

Use a BRD when:

  • Multiple teams or external stakeholders need to align.
  • Regulatory, legal, or compliance concerns shape the requirements.
  • Business milestones or contractual dates are tied to the work.
  • Budget or headcount implications warrant an approved scope.

Don't use a BRD for: single-team feature work, quickfixes, or internal refactors. Those need an intake + spec, nothing more.

Prerequisite

Either /intake has completed (there's a corresponding docs/intake/<slug>.md), OR the user is starting directly at BRD because the intake exists upstream (e.g., in Linear/Jira) and they want to formalize it here.

Inputs

  • The intake document (if any) — it supplies Problem and Goal.
  • The user's additional context about stakeholders, timelines, and compliance.
  • template.md in this skill directory.

Steps

  1. If a corresponding intake exists at docs/intake/<slug>.md, read it. Map Problem → Business objective and Goal → Executive summary.
  2. Read template.md. Every heading must appear in the output.
  3. For each section, write content that answers the questions in the template comments. If unknown, list the gap under Open questions — never fabricate stakeholder names, dates, or dollar amounts.
  4. Name every requirement with an ID: BR-001, BR-002, … for business reqs; FR-001, … for functional; NFR-001, … for non-functional. Downstream spec AC will reference these IDs.
  5. Write to docs/brd/<slug>.md (same slug as the intake, if one exists).
  6. Tell the user: "BRD drafted at docs/brd/<slug>.md. Sign-offs required from: . Open questions: N. Next: /scout (or get sign-offs first if you want to freeze scope)."

Drafting rules

  • Requirements are testable, not aspirational. "The system shall support peak traffic" is aspirational. "The system shall sustain 500 RPS with P95 < 200ms" is testable.
  • Separate business from functional from non-functional. A mixed list becomes unactionable.
  • Risks must have owners. "Risk: the vendor API could change" with no owner is noise. Either name who monitors it or delete it.
  • Sign-offs are names, not titles. "Head of Compliance" can't sign — their replacement, who is a specific person, can.
  • Do not write the solution. The BRD says what must be true; the spec says how. If you catch yourself writing "we'll use Kafka", stop — that belongs in /spec.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 5b2ab80180f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brd is a skill published in the GitHub repository friedbotstudio/baseline (11 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 729 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.