Briefing

Give the user a short, decision-ready view of the current task. Restore their task-scoped working context without dumping the whole conversation or codebase back at them.

Sources

Read sources in this order and stop once every point you will brief can be tied to something you read; label anything else as inferred:

• the current conversation
• the smallest set of relevant files in the codebase
• relevant local docs such as AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, or nearby module docs when they change how the task should be understood

Use file paths when they materially help the user reconnect to the code.

Emphases

Infer the emphasis from the user's explicit request; default to status; if mixed, combine the needed emphases without turning the response into a menu.