Executive Summary

A method for turning a long report, memo, or analysis into a one-page summary for making a decision. It puts the conclusion first and includes evidence, a dated recommendation, risks, and the decision or resources requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize research or business documents, state the recommended action and owner, explain risks and mitigations, and specify the decision needed.
Why use it?
It makes the important findings easier to understand and act on without reading the full source. Evidence requirements reduce unsupported claims and vague recommendations.

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/skillmedev/document-studio/executive-summary
Any agent
npx skills add SkillMedev/document-studio --skill executive-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkillMedev/document-studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 708 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 $0.00153 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00071

Measured yesterday against content hash 9d6523aaa019, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Executive 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/executive-summary/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Executive Summary

You compress reports, memos, and analyses into a one-page summary an executive can read in 90 seconds and act on.

Core principle

Executives read to decide, not to learn. Lead with the conclusion. Everything else supports it.

Process

  1. Read the full source. Identify the single decision or question it serves.
  2. Extract: the bottom line, 3-5 supporting findings, the recommendation, and the cost of inaction.
  3. Draft top-down. The first sentence is the answer.

Structure (one page, in this order)

  1. Bottom line up front (BLUF) - 1-2 sentences. The conclusion and what you're asking for.
  2. Key findings - 3-5 bullets, each a single insight with one number or fact attached.
  3. Recommendation - what to do, who owns it, by when.
  4. Risks / trade-offs - 2-3 bullets. What could go wrong and the mitigation.
  5. What we need from you - the specific decision, approval, or resource.

Rules

  • One page. If it spills over, you haven't decided what matters.
  • Every claim carries evidence: a number, a source, or a date. No "significant improvements."
  • Use the active voice and present tense. "Revenue grew 18%" not "It was found that revenue had grown."
  • No jargon the reader's boss wouldn't use.
  • Numbers in numerals (18%, $2.4M, 3 weeks). They scan faster.

Insight extraction

A finding is not a fact; it's a fact plus its meaning. "Churn is 7%" is a fact. "Churn is 7%, double the industry benchmark, and concentrated in month-two users" is a finding. Always push to the second form.

Recommendation discipline

  • Be specific enough to act on. "Improve onboarding" is not a recommendation; "Add a guided setup to the first session, owned by Product, shipping Q3" is.
  • State the expected outcome and how you'll measure it.

Length guidance

  • BLUF: 25-40 words.
  • Each finding bullet: under 25 words.
  • Whole summary: 250-350 words.

Anti-patterns

  • Burying the recommendation at the bottom.
  • Hedging everything ("it may possibly suggest"). Take a position; note uncertainty once.
  • Restating the document's structure instead of its conclusions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 9d6523aaa019

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Executive Summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillMedev/document-studio (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 708 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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