creating-briefs

creating-briefs is a skill for Claude Code from isvlasov/rageatc-oss. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning vague requests into clear, checkable briefs that define the goal, audience, scope, and assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing specifications, extracting requirements, and preparing tasks another developer or agent can execute.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings and avoids repeated clarification when someone else must carry out the work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rageatc-core-oss plugin — 24 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Writing specifications, extracting requirements, and preparing tasks another developer or agent can execute.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/creating-briefs
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 isvlasov/rageatc-oss --skill creating-briefs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isvlasov/rageatc-oss

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rageatc-core-oss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,124 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 $0.00036 $0.01124
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00112

Measured 10d ago against content hash 02ca1508c953, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-briefs 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 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.

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.

plugins/rageatc-core-oss/skills/creating-briefs/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Briefs

A brief transforms an unstructured request into a bounded, verifiable specification that the executing agent can work from without clarification questions — and that the requester can read and say "yes, this is what I meant". Briefing is orchestrator-owned: it depends on the full conversation context, so write the brief yourself rather than delegating it.

Skip when the task is trivial, already well-specified, or purely exploratory with undefined outcomes.

Principles

  • Outcomes, not solutions — define WHAT to achieve, let the executor determine HOW. Prescribe method only when a real constraint requires it.
  • Context is never assumed — the executor hasn't read the conversation, previous work, or project history. If background matters, state it in the brief.
  • Fit for purpose AND audience — name who will use the deliverable; it shapes requirements and tone.

Workflow

1. Clarify the request

Extract: core intent (the outcome behind the literal words), purpose (WHY it matters — without it the executor can do technically correct work that serves the wrong goal), scope boundaries, audience, and any assumptions you're making. If critical information is missing, ask targeted questions — don't guess.

2. Identify applicable standards

The 1–3 skills or guides that govern quality for this artefact type: writing-skills for skills, conducting-research for research, style guides for documents. Multiple standards can apply to one brief.

3. Extract requirements

The core step — it creates the shared quality expectations that the executor works to and the critic reviews against. From each standard, select the 5–12 requirements that apply to this task (not all of them), rephrase for clarity if needed, and structure as verifiable checkboxes grouped by source standard. Vague aspirations ("must be good quality") are not requirements.

4. Set constraints

3–6 scope limits: format, length, dependencies, explicit exclusions. More than that suggests the scope itself is unclear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 10d ago First seen · 107 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 02ca1508c953

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creating-briefs is a skill published in the GitHub repository isvlasov/rageatc-oss (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,124 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.