Task Brief

Thin requests are the biggest cause of mediocre agent output: the agent guesses the deliverable, the audience and the guardrails, and the user only discovers the misreading after the work is done. This skill moves that discovery to the cheapest possible point — before the work starts — by having the agent compile a short task brief, show it, and only then execute. The user never has to write a better prompt; the agent does the structuring.

When to run it — and when not to

Run it when:

• the user explicitly asks ("brief this first", "make sure you understand before starting"); or
• the task is substantial — multi-step, multi-document, or a deliverable someone else will read (a memo, a report, a dashboard, a document batch) — and the request is thin or ambiguous enough that two reasonable readings would produce different work.