build-brief

build-brief is a skill for Claude Code from Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured creative brief for turning an advertising idea into production instructions for a designer or creative team. It requires performance claims to be tied to specific data and missing information to be identified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define an ad concept, its audience and angle, creative direction, execution requirements, and any evidence needed to support performance claims.
Why use it?
It turns a rough concept into an actionable plan without filling gaps with unsupported audience or performance assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the motion-creative plugin — 17 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to define an ad concept, its audience and angle, creative direction, execution requirements, and any evidence needed to support performance claims.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install motion-creative

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install motion-creative, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,244 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 $0.00034 $0.02244
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00898
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00224

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5b334d84e9f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-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 1mo 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.

Plugin/skills/build-brief/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Brief

Produce a production-ready creative brief from a concept — structured so a creative team can execute without follow-up questions. Uses the creative-strategist skill methodology and brief template standards.

Data accuracy: Every performance reference in the brief must cite a specific data point. If the brief references "top-performing hooks," cite which hooks and their metrics. Never include performance claims not grounded in tool data. If a data point is missing (e.g., no demographic data to inform targeting), flag it rather than guessing.


Phase 1: Get the Concept

1a. Parse Input

The $ARGUMENTS should contain one of:

  • A concept description — freeform text describing what they want to make (e.g., "UGC problem-agitation ad targeting busy moms, hook about the 3pm energy crash")
  • A reference to a concept from a previous /create-concepts run — the user might say "brief concept 2" or paste a concept title
  • Empty — ask the user what to brief

If empty, use AskUserQuestion:

"What creative concept do you want to brief? You can describe the idea, paste a concept from /create-concepts, or tell me the audience/angle you want to target and I'll build the concept."

1b. Get Auth Context

Call get_auth_context() for workspaceId.


Phase 2: Gather Strategic Inputs (Parallel)

The SPEND call must come first (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

  1. get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5, withAggregatedInsights=true) — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract goalMetric and spendThreshold from the response. If goalMetric.isCustomConversion is true, find the matching conversion in the customConversions array and include ["{id}_cost", "{id}_count"] in tableKPIs on all subsequent calls. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

  1. get_workspace_brand(workspaceId) — brand positioning, voice, visual identity, tone constraints
  2. get_glossary_values(workspaceId) — creative taxonomy for alignment
  3. get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5) — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric for visual reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 1mo ago First seen · 205 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 5b334d84e9f7

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build-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository Motion-Creative/motion-creative-plugin (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,244 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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