topic-brief

topic-brief is a skill for Claude Code from genli-ai/market-research-skills. It costs 157 tokens per session (3,326 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for producing a topic briefing in a self-contained HTML file from public news sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to create time-bounded briefings, digests, or observations on subjects such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, AI regulation, or cross-border payments.
Why use it?
They provide a repeatable way to turn recent reporting about a region, industry, institution, or policy issue into a format ready for the WeChat Official Account editor.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the market-research-skills plugin — 4 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use them to create time-bounded briefings, digests, or observations on subjects such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, AI regulation, or cross-border payments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/genli-ai/market-research-skills/topic-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 genli-ai/market-research-skills --skill topic-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genli-ai/market-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install market-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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.

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README.md
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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,326 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 $0.00157 $0.03326
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01663
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00333

Measured 12d ago against content hash 18b03cb018b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

topic-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (lib/__init__.py, lib/fix_quotes.py, lib/renderer.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/topic-brief/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Topic Brief — Thematic Observation Briefing Generator

Generate a public-news-based information briefing for any subject (region / industry / policy issue / institution) and produce a single self-contained HTML file ready to paste into the 微信公众号 / WeChat Official Account editor.

Bilingual skill. Chinese version: SKILL.zh.md. English is the single source of truth; the .zh.md is a synchronized translation — always edit the English first, then mirror the change into .zh.md in the same change-set, never edit only the Chinese.

Trigger phrases

User says something like:

  • "做一份 5 月下半月的中东观察"
  • "Generate a semiconductor industry briefing for the past month"
  • "做一期 AI 立法主题观察,时间是 2026 年 Q2"
  • "/topic-brief"
  • "用 topic-brief 跑一份 ..."

Any descriptive request such as "make a briefing / observation / digest on XX" should activate this skill.

Scope exclusions

Before producing any briefing, check whether the subject falls into a refused category. The following are out of scope regardless of phrasing:

  • Political issues — elections, parties, political figures' positions, government legitimacy debates
  • Military issues — operations, force composition, equipment counts, conflict details, defense policy
  • Religious issues — doctrines, denominational disputes, religious leaders' statements
  • Entertainment celebrity gossip — personal life, scandals, fan disputes
  • Other inherently controversial topics — culture wars, identity disputes, value-judgement debates

If the requested subject is one of the above, reply with exactly one line and stop:

Out of scope. (超出能力范围)

Do not run search, do not draft anything, do not negotiate the scope.

Response language

Reply in the language of the user's request. Chinese question → Chinese reply; English question → English reply; mixed input → follow the dominant language. The generated HTML itself follows the language of the source materials and the subject_name (Chinese subjects produce Chinese briefings, English subjects produce English briefings). Field labels in user-facing reports (e.g., 来源 / Source) should match the briefing's body language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 230 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 18b03cb018b9

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topic-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository genli-ai/market-research-skills (62 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 3,326 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 2026-08-30.

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