project-brief

project-brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 48 tokens per session (549 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-page record of a project's goal, success criteria, limits, technology choices, current status, and next actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, view, list, and update project briefs as the work changes.
Why use it?
It keeps the key project information in one place so progress and upcoming work are easy to check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create, view, list, and update project briefs as the work changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/project-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 JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill project-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 project-brief

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 549 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 $0.00048 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash 59275894570b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 4d 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.

skills/project-brief/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Project Brief Skill

Use when: starting a new project, updating a project's status, or when the user asks "what's the status of X?"

Create a brief for a new project

node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs new
--project
--goal "What this project does and why"
--success "criterion 1,criterion 2,criterion 3"
--constraints "constraint 1,constraint 2"
--stack "tech1,tech2"
--status "Active"
--next "first next action,second next action"

List all projects with briefs

node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs list

Compact status overview

node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs status

View a project's brief

node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs view

Update a brief

node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --status "Complete" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --add-next "New action item" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --check "Success criterion text" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --add-history "What changed today" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --add-blocker "What's blocking" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --resolve-blocker "What's blocking" node ${PROJECT_BRIEF_HOME:-$HOME/projects/project-brief}/brief.cjs update --current-status "One-liner on current state"

Briefs live at

~/projects//BRIEF.md

When to update

  • When a project's status changes
  • When a blocker appears or is resolved
  • When a milestone is hit
  • When the user says "note that X is done"
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. 4d ago First seen · 56 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 59275894570b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 549 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 2026-09-03.

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