write-milestone-brief

write-milestone-brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,881 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing helper that turns a project conversation into a milestone brief, a short product requirements document describing the intended outcome and decisions. It can save the brief as a file or, with confirmation, create a GitHub issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture planning context, prepare work for another developer or agent, or document a milestone before implementation begins.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions from being lost in planning discussions and gives teammates a durable description of what “done” means. It also separates goals from implementation task lists.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to capture planning context, prepare work for another developer or agent, or document a milestone before implementation begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-gsd/gsd-pi/write-milestone-brief
About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,210 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add open-gsd/gsd-pi --skill write-milestone-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,881 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 78
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00098 $0.01881
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00941
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00188

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7d932e595035, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-milestone-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 5d 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.

src/resources/skills/write-milestone-brief/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Typical invocation points:

  • User says "capture this" or "write it up" after a planning discussion
  • End of a discuss phase before moving to plan
  • User wants to hand the work off to another agent or a human teammate

<core_principle> SYNTHESIZE, DO NOT RE-INTERVIEW. Use what is already in this conversation. If a decision is genuinely missing, note it in Open Questions — do not relitigate.

REAL OUTCOMES, NOT TASKS. M###-CONTEXT.md describes what the user can do when the milestone ships, what scenarios must pass for "done," and what architectural decisions were made. It does NOT list tasks or implementation steps — those belong in M###-ROADMAP.md and S##-PLAN.md.

NO FILE PATHS OR LINE NUMBERS IN THE BRIEF. Those go stale. Describe modules, interfaces, and behaviors. The roadmap and plans can cite code locations; the brief should outlive refactors. </core_principle>

Step 1: Locate the target

Find the active milestone:

  1. Read .gsd/STATE.md — it names the active milestone.
  2. If no milestone is active, ask the user whether this is a new milestone (create directory + files) or appending to an existing one.
  3. For a new milestone, use gsd_milestone_new or the /gsd new-milestone flow — do not create directories by hand.

Step 2: Read the template

Read src/resources/extensions/gsd/templates/context.md (the full path is shown in the templatesDir system-prompt field). Match its structure exactly — parsers and downstream prompts depend on the headings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 7d932e595035

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write-milestone-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,210 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,881 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.