Agent skill

Company Brief

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Company Brief

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill company-brief -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills company-brief --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/company-brief .claude/skills/company-brief && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
company-brief
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~923 tokens
SKILL.md length
478 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview.

  • Asked to research a company for a job
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Quality Checks and Anti-Patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Prep a company brief before an interview

What it does

Company Brief is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview. Use when asked to research a company for a job, prep a company brief before an interview, or understand a prospective employer fast. Produces a one-page brief — what they do & how they make money, recent news & trajectory, product & competitors, likely challenges, culture signals, and smart questions to ask.

Its SKILL.md is about 920 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to research a company for a job
  • Prep a company brief before an interview
  • Understand a prospective employer fast

Example prompts

  • “/company-brief”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Company Brief loads about 923 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 478 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~923

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 478 words, ~923 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/company-brief/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
company-brief
description
Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview. Use when asked to research a company for a job, prep a company brief before an interview, or understand a prospective employer fast. Produces a one-page brief — what they do & how they make money, recent news & trajectory, product & competitors, likely challenges, culture signals, and smart questions to ask.

Company Brief Skill

Walking into an interview without understanding the business is the fastest way to look like you're just collecting offers. This skill assembles a candidate's research brief — what the company does, how it makes money, where it's heading, and the challenges you'd be hired to help with — so you can speak to their reality and ask questions that signal you've done the work.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • Company name (and website/ticker if helpful).
  • The role you're interviewing for — so the brief focuses on what's relevant to that job.
  • What you already know / found — paste any research, news, or notes you have (this skill structures and reasons over it).

Note: ground this in real, provided information. Where current facts aren't supplied, say so and mark inferences as assumptions — don't fabricate funding rounds, metrics, or news.

Output Format

Company Brief: [company] — prepping for [role]

1. What they do & how they make money — the business in plain terms: product, customers, and the revenue model. If you can't tell how they make money, that's itself worth noting.

2. Trajectory & recent news — stage, growth signals, funding/earnings, launches, leadership changes (from the info provided). Where it's clearly heading.

3. Product & competitors — the core product, who they compete with, and their differentiation (or lack of it).

4. Likely challenges — the 2–3 problems this company is probably grappling with that this role would touch. This is the gold: it's what you'll speak to in the interview.

5. Culture signals — what their site, JD, reviews, and public voice suggest about how they work (and whether you'd want to).

6. Smart questions to ask — 4–6 questions that show you understand their business and surface what you need to know (avoid generic "what's the culture like?").

7. Your angle — how to connect your background to their specific situation, in one or two lines.

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Quality Checks

  • Explains how the company actually makes money (or flags that it's unclear)
  • Likely challenges are tied to the specific role, not generic
  • Questions-to-ask are specific to this company, not reusable boilerplate
  • Inferences are marked as assumptions; nothing is fabricated as fact
  • Ends with a concrete "your angle" connecting the candidate to their situation

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not fabricate funding, metrics, or news — work from provided info and label inferences
  • Do not produce a generic company overview — focus on what matters for this role and interview
  • Do not list culture platitudes — read real signals (JD tone, reviews, how they describe the work)
  • Do not suggest generic questions ("what's a typical day?") — make them business-specific
  • Do not skip "likely challenges" — it's the section that makes you sound like a hire, not a tourist

Based On

Interview research / company due-diligence practice for candidates (business model · trajectory · role-relevant challenges).

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Research a company for a job."
  • "Prep a company brief before an interview."
  • "Understand a prospective employer fast."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/company-brief of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Company Brief

What does Company Brief do?

Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview. Company Brief is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview.

When should I use Company Brief?

Company Brief fits situations like: asked to research a company for a job; prep a company brief before an interview; understand a prospective employer fast.

How do I install Company Brief in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill company-brief -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/company-brief in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/company-brief in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Company Brief in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill company-brief -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/company-brief in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/company-brief in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Company Brief in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill company-brief -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/company-brief, .gemini/skills/company-brief, .github/skills/company-brief and .opencode/skills/company-brief in your project.

What does Company Brief need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Company Brief is instructions for the agent only.

Does Company Brief access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Company Brief safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Company Brief use?

Company Brief is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Company Brief use?

About 923 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Company Brief?

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Who maintains Company Brief?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.