Business Brain Pattern

This skill implements the "Business Brain Pattern" for AI coding assistants. It centralizes all shared business and brand knowledge in one location—the "brain"—and allows individual skills or agent queries to reference it selectively rather than duplicating it.

The Problem

Loading full brand guides, audience profiles, and positioning documents into every skill or prompt bloats the context window. This increases token usage, diffuses the agent's attention from the actual task instructions, and creates a maintenance nightmare when brand guidelines change.

The Solution

The Business Brain pattern keeps individual skill prompts lean. Each skill loads only the brain sections it actually uses. The brain is organized into modular files by topic.

Usage

When tasked with retrieving brand context, writing on-brand copy, or answering questions about the project's audience:

1. Check for a local brain: Look for an .agent/brain/ directory (or legacy brain/, .claude/brain/, .gemini/brain/) in the project workspace.
2. Selective loading: Use your file reading tools to load only the specific files needed for the task.
   • Example: A social media drafting task might only need brand-voice.md and audience-profiles.md.