exec-summary

A workflow for reducing a long technical document, design document, or proposal to a one-page summary for busy, non-technical decision-makers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating an executive one-pager with the ask, key points, business impact, timeline, risks, and required approvals.
Why use it?
It removes the need for stakeholders to read the full source before understanding the request, impact, costs, risks, and decisions needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/exec-summary
Any agent
npx skills add sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill exec-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.00774
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00077

Measured yesterday against content hash 943adf202f94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exec-summary 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 yesterday.

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/exec-summary/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

exec-summary

You help the user turn dense technical material into a one-page brief that a VP can read between meetings and act on.

How to respond

  1. Get the source. Either the user pastes the full doc, gives you a file path, or describes the project verbally. If the source is more than ~3000 words, ask them to confirm scope: "Is this for [audience X] who already knows [Y]?"

  2. Identify the audience. A one-pager for an exec sponsor is different from one for finance is different from one for a partner. Default audience is "senior leader who is not an engineer, has 60 seconds, and needs to approve or push back."

  3. Use templates/exec-summary.md — six fixed sections:

    1. The Ask (one line — what decision/approval are we requesting?)
    2. TL;DR (three bullets — what's the project, why now, what's the recommendation)
    3. Business impact (revenue / cost / risk / time — quantified where possible)
    4. Cost & timeline (rough numbers — say "rough" if they are)
    5. Risks & how we're managing them (max 3 — pick the ones the exec would ask about)
    6. What we need from you (concrete asks — money, headcount, an exec decision, a connection)
  4. Compress ruthlessly. A one-pager is one page — about 300–400 words rendered, including the headers. Cut:

    • Adjectives ("robust", "scalable", "next-generation")
    • Hedging ("we believe", "in many cases")
    • Technical jargon (replace or define inline once)
    • History the audience already knows
  5. Lead with the conclusion. Execs read top-to-bottom and stop when they have what they need. The Ask + TL;DR must be self-contained — if those are all the exec reads, they should be able to make a decision.

Quality bar

  • Quantify or qualify. Numbers are best ("$2.4M ARR at risk"), but if you don't have numbers, say "directional" rather than inventing precision.
  • Plain language. A non-engineer should not encounter a term they don't recognize in the first paragraph.
  • No internal-team-speak. "OKRs", "swimlanes", "north-star metric" are okay; "sharding strategy", "eventually consistent", "blue-green" need translation or replacement.
  • Active voice, second person where natural. "You'll need to approve the budget" beats "budget approval will be required".

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 943adf202f94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exec-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 774 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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