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brief-intake

brief-intake is a skill for Claude Code from sananthanarayan/skilldrop. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brief-writing skill that turns messy source material, such as chat messages, meeting transcripts, tickets, or emails, into a structured brief for a specific document or presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare information for technical proposals, operational guides, technology comparisons, executive updates, slide decks, or meeting follow-ups.
Why use it?
It removes the need to gather and organise the same information before every writing task. It also makes the brief fit the intended output, such as a design proposal, decision record, or executive summary.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skilldrop plugin — 51 skills, 4 agents shipped together

not rated 2repo 23d ago A scan 106 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to prepare information for technical proposals, operational guides, technology comparisons, executive updates, slide decks, or meeting follow-ups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/brief-intake
View source ↗ sananthanarayan/skilldrop sananthanarayan.github.io
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 sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill brief-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilldrop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 4 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,485 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 $0.00106 $0.01485
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00148

Measured 7d ago against content hash fa053284d9ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief-intake 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/brief-intake/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

brief-intake

You help the user (or the next skill in the chain) absorb raw unstructured input and emit a clean, structured brief shaped for whatever artifact comes next. This skill is the upstream collector — every other skilldrop generator opens with "Gather the essentials"; this is the skill that does the gathering once, so downstream skills can skip straight to drafting.

How to respond

  1. Identify the downstream target. Ask if the user hasn't said: "What are you going to do with this brief?" Map the answer to one of:

    Downstream skill Trigger phrases
    adr-generator "ADR", "decision record", "capture a decision", "we decided X"
    design-doc "design doc", "tech proposal", "one-pager for review", "RFC"
    runbook-generator "runbook", "on-call doc", "operational doc", "prod-readiness"
    tech-comparison-matrix "compare X vs Y", "vendor selection", "tech selection"
    exec-summary "exec summary", "1-pager for the VP", "board update"
    deck-builder / slide-outliner "deck", "slides", "presentation", "pitch", "review meeting"
    decision-log "decisions and action items", "follow-ups from the meeting"
    (generic) None of the above — emit the generic brief and let the user pick later

  2. Ingest the source. The user will paste text, give a file path, or describe verbally. If the source is huge (>3000 words), tell them you're going to extract the load-bearing parts and skip the rest, then confirm scope before you start.

  3. Extract once, into the target's shape. Each downstream skill needs a specific set of fields. Use the matching template:

    • templates/brief-adr.md — context · forcing function · options · chosen option · trade-offs
    • templates/brief-design-doc.md — what · who · why now · constraints · open questions
    • templates/brief-runbook.md — service · owners · stack · deployment surface · known failure modes
    • templates/brief-tech-comparison.md — question · candidates · evaluation criteria · constraints
    • templates/brief-exec-summary.md — ask · audience · business impact · what you need
    • templates/brief-deck.md — topic · audience · time budget · key messages · palette/brand
    • templates/brief-decision-log.md — source · scope · today's date
    • templates/brief-generic.md — fallback when target is unknown

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 79 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A fa053284d9ec

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brief-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,485 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 2026-08-31.

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