stakeholder-brief

stakeholder-brief is a skill for Claude Code from rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer. It costs 125 tokens per session (1,931 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short explanation of a technical situation written for a busy non-engineer. It states what changed, what it means, what decision is needed, and what risks remain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for phase updates, release decisions, assessment findings, sponsor communication, and bad news that needs to be understood quickly.
Why use it?
It turns detailed engineering work into information that sponsors and delivery leads can use without reading technical documents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fde-core plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for phase updates, release decisions, assessment findings, sponsor communication, and bad news that needs to be understood quickly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/stakeholder-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 rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer --skill stakeholder-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fde-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,931 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 $0.00125 $0.01931
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00193

Measured 9d ago against content hash 130570b2aee9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stakeholder-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 9d 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.

fde-core/skills/stakeholder-brief/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stakeholder brief

Making technical facts usable by people who won't read the artifacts.

Why this exists

The FDE artifacts are written for engineers: cited, precise, and long. A sponsor will not read them, and shouldn't have to. But sponsors make the decisions that determine whether the work matters — funding it, prioritizing it, accepting the residual risk, approving the release.

So the facts have to travel, and travelling means changing form. Not simplifying to the point of uselessness, and not dumping the technical document with an apologetic summary on top, but genuinely re-writing for a reader whose question is "what do I need to do about this?"

There's a second function. An FDE has no track record here, and people calibrate on how you communicate long before they can judge your code. A brief that respects a busy reader's time and states its uncertainty honestly does more for your standing than the work it describes.

When this applies

  • Phase boundaries — after recon, after feasibility, before a release
  • A sponsor or delivery lead needs an update
  • A decision is needed from outside the team
  • Presenting assessment findings
  • Bad news. Especially bad news.

When it doesn't

  • Communicating with engineers — give them the artifact, they'd rather have the detail
  • Nothing has changed and no decision is needed. A brief with no content trains people to skim the next one.
  • A formal change submission — that's release-readiness

Prerequisites

Whichever artifacts hold the current position. Read ../_shared/comms-register.md before writing — the register for each reader type is the substance of this skill.

Procedure

1. Identify the reader and what they can act on

Different readers need different documents from the same facts. From ../_shared/comms-register.md:

  • Tech lead / architect — the options and the trade-off
  • Delivery lead / EM — impact on plan, people, and date
  • Sponsor / executive — the decision, the risk, the cost of being wrong

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 9d ago First seen · 178 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 130570b2aee9

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stakeholder-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer (6 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 1,931 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.