Task Brief

Overview

Turn a raw natural-language request into a structured task brief that another executor can use without reading the original message.

This skill is a task specification normalizer. Its job is to surface the real goal, capture the completion standard, and make critical constraints explicit. It does not do design-stage routing, task decomposition, implementation planning, or execution.

The value is straightforward: a good brief reduces misunderstanding, prevents wasted work on the wrong problem, and makes handoff cleaner for another model, agent, or human.

task-brief is also the sole creation entry point for .agents/tasks/<task-id>/. Once a brief is confirmed and the task is non-trivial enough to warrant persistence, this skill creates the task directory and writes the first journal entry. See "Creating a Task Directory" below.

Core Responsibilities

task-brief should only: