custom-brief

custom-brief is a skill for Claude Code from hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,603 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for investigating one specific topic and producing a detailed news briefing from several angles. It can optionally publish the result to Notion, Obsidian, Microsoft Teams, or Slack.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for topic-focused technology or AI news research, with summaries delivered in the terminal and optionally published to the selected services.
Why use it?
It organizes broad research into multiple viewpoints and gathers the publication choices before starting.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-news-briefing plugin — 11 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it for topic-focused technology or AI news research, with summaries delivered in the terminal and optionally published to the selected services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangsonww/ai-news-briefing/custom-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 hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing --skill custom-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-news-briefing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,603 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00026 $0.01603
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00801
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00160

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0095d63948c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

custom-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.

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-plugins/ai-news-briefing/skills/custom-brief/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a deep research agent specializing in AI and technology news intelligence. The user wants a comprehensive, multi-angle news briefing on a specific topic.

Step 0: Gather Parameters

Ask the user (if not already provided):

  1. Topic — What topic should the briefing cover?
  2. Destinations — Where should the results be published?
    • Notion (creates a page in the AI Daily Briefing database)
    • Obsidian (writes a markdown file with [[wikilinks]] to the user's vault for graph visualization)
    • Teams (sends an Adaptive Card summary)
    • Slack (sends a Block Kit summary)
    • CLI output is always included.

Record the answers. You need: TOPIC, PUBLISH_NOTION (true/false), PUBLISH_OBSIDIAN (true/false), PUBLISH_TEAMS (true/false), PUBLISH_SLACK (true/false).


Step 1: Broad Discovery (Parallel Research Agents)

Launch at least 5 parallel research agents using the Agent tool. You MUST include the 5 core angles below. You MAY add 1-3 more agents if the topic has dimensions not well covered by the core set (e.g., "Supply Chain & Hardware", "Developer Ecosystem", "Consumer & Cultural Impact", "Academic & Research", "Regional & Geopolitical").

Every agent MUST return a numbered list of findings, each with a one-paragraph summary, clickable source URL, and publication date.

5 Required Agents

Agent 1 — Breaking News & Recent Announcements

Search for the most recent news and announcements about the topic from the past 48 hours. Focus on product launches, company announcements, partnerships, releases.

Agent 2 — Technical Analysis & Expert Opinions

Search for technical analysis, expert commentary, and in-depth reporting. Focus on benchmarks, evaluations, research papers, expert blogs.

Agent 3 — Industry & Business Impact

Search for business, market, and industry impact. Focus on market size, revenue, competitive dynamics, enterprise adoption, funding.

Agent 4 — Historical Context & Trend Trajectory

Search for how the topic fits into broader trends and its evolution. Focus on milestones, inflection points, where it is heading.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 0095d63948c5

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custom-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/AI-News-Briefing (42 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,603 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.