briefing

briefing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from softspark/ai-toolkit. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,344 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for producing a daily or periodic summary from reports, learning notes, maintenance logs, and recent runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily briefings, weekly summaries, status checks across agents, or reports that include recent session token usage.
Why use it?
It brings scattered operational information into one decision-focused update and highlights actions that need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 13 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

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/softspark/ai-toolkit/briefing
Any agent
npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for briefing

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00032 $0.01344
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00672
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00134

Measured 4d ago against content hash 47c662ff29af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

briefing scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`ai-toolkit install` wires `~/.claude/settings.json` to `app/hooks/ai-toolkit-statusline.sh`. The hook reads native Claude Code statusLine stdin (no session JSONL parsing) and renders one line:
app/skills/briefing/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Briefing Command

Triggers the Chief of Staff to generate an executive summary.

Usage

/briefing [period]
# Example: /briefing today
# Example: /briefing week
/briefing --tokens [--since 7d|24h|30m]
# Reports real session token usage from Claude Code JSONL.

Protocol

  1. Collect: Gather logs from kb/learnings/, maintenance/ logs, and recent runs.
  2. Synthesize: Group by category (Ops, Strategy, Actions).
  3. Filter: Remove low-priority success logs.
  4. Present: Render the Daily Brief.

Example

## Daily Brief — 2026-04-23

### Ops
- night-watch: 3 dep updates shipped, 1 rolled back (breaking change in `[email protected]`)
- health: all green except `mailpit` (degraded, non-critical)

### Strategy
- predict: new PR #42 overlaps with in-flight refactor in `/src/auth`

### Actions needed
- Review rollback from night-watch (ETA: 5 min)
- Decide on `x-pkg` pin strategy (open question on GitHub #41)

Rules

  • MUST stay under 200 words unless the user explicitly asks for more detail
  • MUST lead with decision-relevant facts, not chronology — "what should I act on" before "what happened"
  • NEVER invent agent activity — report only what the logs show; absence of logs means "no data", not "nothing happened"
  • CRITICAL: separate Ops (what ran) from Strategy (what was decided) from Actions (what needs a human) — mixing them defeats the brief
  • MANDATORY: when no material activity exists for a category, omit the category heading instead of writing "none"

Gotchas

  • kb/learnings/ often mixes drafts with completed entries. Filter by frontmatter status: final or by filename convention before aggregating.
  • maintenance/ branch logs from /night-watch use a different format (Shift Report markdown) than agent run logs. Do not concatenate blindly — parse each source separately and normalize.
  • "Recent runs" without an explicit time bound defaults to everything on some log backends. Always pass --since or a date filter, or you will read a week into yesterday's memory.
  • Successful runs outnumber interesting runs by an order of magnitude. Aggressively filter green/noop entries — they are the signal's noise floor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 4d ago First seen · 129 lines · 32 tokens per session scan B 47c662ff29af

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briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (167 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,344 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.