Agent skill

Briefing

by softspark in softspark/ai-toolkit

Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Briefing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill briefing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install softspark/ai-toolkit briefing --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/softspark/ai-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/app/skills/briefing .claude/skills/briefing && 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
briefing
GitHub stars
179
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
482 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
112
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary.

  • Works in 4 steps: Collect: Gather logs from kb/learnings/,… → Synthesize: Group by category (Ops,… → Filter: Remove low-priority success logs. → …
  • Productivity & Automation work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Usage, Protocol, Example and Rules, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls python3 and jq

What it does

Briefing is an agent skill from softspark/ai-toolkit. Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary. Triggers: briefing, daily summary, status across system, executive update.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Productivity & Automation. The repository describes itself as: Professional-grade AI coding toolkit: 94 skills, 44 agents, multi-platform (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini, Cline, Roo Code, Aider, Augment, Antigravity, Codex CLI… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/briefing”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Collect: Gather logs from kb/learnings/, maintenance/ logs, and recent runs.
  2. Synthesize: Group by category (Ops, Strategy, Actions).
  3. Filter: Remove low-priority success logs.
  4. Present: Render the Daily Brief.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d64db2b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Grep
    • Glob

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3
    • jq

    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

Briefing loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 44 tokens; SKILL.md has 482 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~44
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 softspark/ai-toolkit at commit d64db2b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© softspark). 482 words, ~1,325 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/briefing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
briefing
description
Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary. Triggers: briefing, daily summary, status across system, executive update.
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob
effort
medium
disable-model-invocation
true
agent
chief-of-staff
context
fork

Briefing Command

Triggers the Chief of Staff to generate an executive summary.

Usage

bash
/briefing [period]
# Example: /briefing today
# Example: /briefing week
/briefing --tokens [--since 7d|24h|30m]
# Reports real session token usage from Claude Code JSONL.

Protocol

  1. Collect: Gather logs from kb/learnings/, maintenance/ logs, and recent runs.
  2. Synthesize: Group by category (Ops, Strategy, Actions).
  3. Filter: Remove low-priority success logs.
  4. Present: Render the Daily Brief.

Example

## Daily Brief — 2026-04-23

### Ops
- night-watch: 3 dep updates shipped, 1 rolled back (breaking change in `x-pkg@2.0`)
- health: all green except `mailpit` (degraded, non-critical)

### Strategy
- predict: new PR #42 overlaps with in-flight refactor in `/src/auth`

### Actions needed
- Review rollback from night-watch (ETA: 5 min)
- Decide on `x-pkg` pin strategy (open question on GitHub #41)

Rules

  • MUST stay under 200 words unless the user explicitly asks for more detail
  • MUST lead with decision-relevant facts, not chronology — "what should I act on" before "what happened"
  • NEVER invent agent activity — report only what the logs show; absence of logs means "no data", not "nothing happened"
  • CRITICAL: separate Ops (what ran) from Strategy (what was decided) from Actions (what needs a human) — mixing them defeats the brief
  • MANDATORY: when no material activity exists for a category, omit the category heading instead of writing "none"

Gotchas

  • kb/learnings/ often mixes drafts with completed entries. Filter by frontmatter status: final or by filename convention before aggregating.
  • maintenance/ branch logs from /night-watch use a different format (Shift Report markdown) than agent run logs. Do not concatenate blindly — parse each source separately and normalize.
  • "Recent runs" without an explicit time bound defaults to everything on some log backends. Always pass --since or a date filter, or you will read a week into yesterday's memory.
  • Successful runs outnumber interesting runs by an order of magnitude. Aggressively filter green/noop entries — they are the signal's noise floor.

Token Receipts

The --tokens flag reports real token usage parsed from Claude Code session JSONL — not estimates. Useful for:

  • Verifying output-mode: concise actually reduces tokens vs default sessions
  • Spotting expensive runs before they show up on the bill
  • Capturing a baseline before changing prompts or skills

Underlying script: scripts/session_token_stats.py.

bash
# Aggregate current session
python3 scripts/session_token_stats.py --json

# Statusline-friendly one-line output
python3 scripts/session_token_stats.py --statusline

# Trend vs baseline
python3 scripts/session_token_stats.py --statusline --baseline ~/.softspark/ai-toolkit/baseline.json
Show full SKILL.md (206 more words)Show less
Status line (installed by default in v3.2.0+)

ai-toolkit install wires ~/.claude/settings.json to app/hooks/ai-toolkit-statusline.sh. The hook reads native Claude Code statusLine stdin (no session JSONL parsing) and renders one line:

➜ <dir> git:(branch) ✗ ████░░░░░░ 43%  ↑6.5k ↓252k effort:xhigh <model>

Segments left to right:

  • ➜ <dir> — current directory basename
  • git:(branch) ✗ — git branch + dirty marker
  • 10-cell progress bar for context-window usage. Color tiers: green <70%, orange 70–89%, red ≥90%
  • ↑in ↓out — token arrows. Green up = input (upload), red down = output (download). Both cumulative across the session.
  • effort:level — Claude Code effort level (low / medium / high / xhigh)
  • model name

Custom statusLine entries you set yourself (without the _source: ai-toolkit tag) are preserved untouched on install.

Opt-outs (no reinstall required):

  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_DISABLE=1 — silence the line entirely
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_NO_TOKENS=1 — hide token arrows segment
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_NO_GIT=1 — hide git segment
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_NO_EFFORT=1 — hide effort level segment
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_NO_COLOR=1 — disable ANSI colors
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_SHOW_COST=1 — append Claude Code's reported cost (cost.total_cost_usd)
  • AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_DUMP=1 — write received stdin to /tmp/cc-statusline-input.json (debug)
Save a baseline
bash
python3 scripts/session_token_stats.py --json | jq '.totals' > ~/.softspark/ai-toolkit/baseline.json
export AI_TOOLKIT_STATUSLINE_BASELINE=~/.softspark/ai-toolkit/baseline.json

The statusline then renders trend arrows (↑ / ↓) against that baseline.

When NOT to Use

  • For a specific production incident — use /workflow incident-response
  • For one-agent activity detail — read that agent's logs directly (kb/learnings/<agent>/)
  • For planning future work — use /plan or /prd-to-plan
  • For a technical system-up/down status — use /health
  • When no agents have produced logs in the window — say so and stop; do not pad

© softspark, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in app/skills/briefing of softspark/ai-toolkit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d64db2b

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Questions about Briefing

What does Briefing do?

Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary. Briefing is an agent skill from softspark/ai-toolkit. Executive daily briefing aggregating reports from all agents into decision-focused summary.

When should I use Briefing?

Briefing fits situations like: productivity & Automation work in your project.

How do I install Briefing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill briefing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (app/skills/briefing in softspark/ai-toolkit) into .claude/skills/briefing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Briefing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill briefing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (app/skills/briefing in softspark/ai-toolkit) into .agents/skills/briefing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Briefing 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 softspark/ai-toolkit --skill briefing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/briefing, .gemini/skills/briefing, .github/skills/briefing and .opencode/skills/briefing in your project.

What does Briefing need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Briefing needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3 and jq). Our summary lists: Python 3. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Glob.

Does Briefing 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 Briefing 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 Briefing use?

Briefing is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Briefing use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Briefing?

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Who maintains Briefing?

softspark (a GitHub user) maintains it in softspark/ai-toolkit, which has 179 GitHub stars. The repository holds 112 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: softspark/ai-toolkit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.