Brief

The person with the intent should write a short sentence, and the agent should do the structuring. Experts type short kickoffs. What makes their delegation work is the brief compiled from that sentence. It says what done looks like, how the worker will know it is working, what it must not touch, how long it has, who lands the result and what to do while nobody is watching. This skill compiles that brief into templates/brief.md. It explores the repo to fill fields instead of asking the human.

When to use

• Handing work to anything that will run without you watching: a child session, a background agent, a coding agent on an issue, a scheduled run, or an automation prompt.
• Fanning out the same intent across N sessions, slices, models or hypotheses.
• Any kickoff longer than one sentence that will run for more than about 30 minutes.

Do not use it for a quick interactive edit you will watch, or when a brief for this work already exists. Amend the existing brief instead of writing a second one.

Steps