briefing

briefing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-sid-dani/second-brain-os. It costs 289 tokens per session (10,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A morning briefing document that combines available email, calendar, messaging, issue-tracking, code-hosting, and workspace information into one HTML file. It includes priorities, items needing attention, and suggested work for active projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a daily briefing from connected tools and local workspace files, including contacts, projects, and personal priorities.
Why use it?
It gathers scattered daily signals in one place and clearly shows which information sources were available or missing.

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/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/briefing
Any agent
npx skills add the-sid-dani/second-brain-os --skill briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 289 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,382 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 $0.00289 $0.10382
Opus 5 $0.00144 $0.05191
Sonnet 5 $0.00058 $0.02076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.01038

Measured 5d ago against content hash ec06cc87ce3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

briefing 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/briefing/SKILL.md · 492 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 492 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

briefing

The chief-of-staff morning brief. Probes which signal sources are available, composes only the ones present, and assembles a single structured document at <workspace.root>/<workspace.resources>/briefings/morning-briefing-YYYY-MM-DD.html. Applies the user's priority signals, surfaces what needs them today, and recommends what to ship from each active project. Closes with a "Tools used" footer section transparently listing what was composed vs what was not configured — fork users with zero MCPs still get a useful brief from workspace state alone.

Before you begin: read the Configuration section in root CLAUDE.md. Path tokens like <workspace.resources> and <scripts.project_query> resolve from there — don't hardcode.

Progressive disclosure — load on demand:

  • references/html-composition.md — full Step 9 HTML spec (DOM scaffold, canonical color fallbacks, hard rules, voice, section-omission, pre-Write assertions). Load before composing the HTML.
  • references/output-format.md — the stable DOM contract (fixed section order + data-od-id slugs + gating behavior).
  • references/failure-modes.md — symptom → cause → fix table for every known failure.

Why this exists

<user.name> wants <assistant.name> to be a chief-of-staff, not a search engine. The morning brief is the single highest-value moment of the day: cross-referencing whatever signal sources are configured (email, calendar, messaging, issue-tracking, code-hosting) + project state to surface what actually needs attention vs what's noise. Before this skill, that ritual was a 4-tab manual scan that took 15 minutes and missed half the signal — and worse, didn't connect it to the active projects' plans.

/briefing is the answer to "Morning <user.name>, here's the lay of the land — and here's what to ship today." Its mandatory floor runs with zero external tools: read the active-projects index, tail each project's memory.md, read USER.md priority signals, read contacts. Its optional composition layer uses whatever's configured — gws gmail +triage / gws calendar +agenda via Bash (if gws CLI is installed), mcp__slack__* (if Slack MCP is authorized), mcp__atlassian__* (if Atlassian MCP is authorized), gh pr list (if gh CLI is installed), /find (always present, optional last step). Step 0.5 detects what's available at runtime; Step 0.6 probes auth health on each detected tool and pauses via AskUserQuestion if any are errored (so dead tokens are caught before the brief is composed, not after); later steps gate on the post-probe map.

Read the full file on GitHub · 492 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 492 lines · 289 tokens per session scan A ec06cc87ce3f

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briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-sid-dani/second-brain-os (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 289 tokens to every session and 10,382 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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