briefing

briefing is a skill for Claude Code from norrietaylor/distillery. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,791 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A dashboard summarising recent knowledge entries, corrections, items nearing expiry, outdated knowledge, and unresolved issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review the state of team knowledge; in team mode, it also covers activity, related entries, and the review queue.
Why use it?
It helps teams see what knowledge needs attention instead of relying on memory or scattered records.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the distillery plugin — 15 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review the state of team knowledge; in team mode, it also covers activity, related entries, and the review queue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/norrietaylor/distillery/briefing
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 norrietaylor/distillery --skill briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install distillery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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 briefing

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,791 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 unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.03791
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01895
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00758
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00379

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3a94000a9a09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

briefing 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 7d 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/briefing/SKILL.md · 360 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago First seen · 360 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 3a94000a9a09

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briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository norrietaylor/distillery (24 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,791 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 2026-08-30.

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