update-briefs

update-briefs is a skill for Claude Code from rbah31/claude-code-workflow. It costs 77 tokens per session (822 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow that updates a shared project-memory folder after a development sprint. It reads the sprint’s plans, results, reviews, fixes, and retrospectives, then records the current project state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a sprint, after capturing lessons, or when you need to synchronize project state and update the shared briefs.
Why use it?
Other coding agents can miss what changed during a sprint when project notes are outdated. A structured state file gives them a common summary of completed work, issues, and priorities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after a sprint, after capturing lessons, or when you need to synchronize project state and update the shared briefs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbah31/claude-code-workflow/update-briefs
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rbah31/claude-code-workflow --skill update-briefs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rbah31/claude-code-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 822 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.00822
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00329
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3dbf742d7e5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-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 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.

.claude/skills/update-briefs/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Briefs

You are updating the shared memory (briefs/) after a sprint. Your job is to keep all strategic agents informed of the current project state.

Step 1 — Determine current sprint

Find the latest sprint directory in tasks/sprints/ (highest number).

Step 2 — Read sprint outputs

Read ALL available sprint output files:

  1. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/plan.md
  2. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/build-output.md
  3. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/review-output.md
  4. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/fix-output.md
  5. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/redteam-output.md (if exists)
  6. tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/retrospective.md (if exists)

Also read the current briefs/project-state.md.

Step 3 — Update project-state.md

Overwrite briefs/project-state.md with:

# Project State

Last updated: [date] — Sprint [XX]

## Current state
[What the project does right now, what's deployed, what works]

## Last sprint summary
Sprint [XX]: [theme]
- Completed: [tasks done]
- Issues found: [critical/major from review]
- Tests: [passing/failing count if known]

## Open items
- [Deferred issues from review/fix]
- [Items added to backlog]

## Next priorities
- [What should be done next based on backlog + retro]

## Blockers (manual actions needed)
- [Things that require human intervention]

Step 4 — Update marketing-sync.md

Append to briefs/marketing-sync.md with user-facing changes only:

### Sprint [XX] — [Date]
**User-facing changes**:
- [New feature / fix visible to users]

**Messaging angle**: [How to communicate this]

**Not for marketing** (internal only):
- [Technical changes not relevant to users]

If the sprint had no user-facing changes, skip this step.

Step 5 — Update blockers.md

If any manual actions were discovered during the sprint (deploy steps, config changes, external service setup), append to briefs/blockers.md.

Step 6 — Update decisions-log.md

Append technical decisions made during the sprint to briefs/decisions-log.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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 · 109 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 3dbf742d7e5d

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update-briefs is a skill published in the GitHub repository rbah31/claude-code-workflow (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 822 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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