vawe-brief SKILL.md skillA

vawe-brief from vawe-hq/vawe is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vawe-hq/vawe/vawe-brief@git:20261102.f4cb385

Pins git:20261102.f4cb385 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vawe-hq/vawe
Path
skills/vawe-brief/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261102.f4cb385, committed Nov 2, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 10, 2026
Size
5,154 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
Apache-2.0

Plan an HTML to video film (motion graphics as code). Turn a film request into films/<name>/brief.md: ask the person for the details that make a good film (subject, message, what to show, look), then write the brief in the measured anatomy and name the first draft command. Load when a person asks for a film and no brief.md exists yet.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# vawe-brief: the interview, then the brief

When you talk to the person, use plain words: describe what the viewer sees, not the harness terms (map: harness/lib/plain-words.mjs).
Run this skill inside a vawe checkout: `AGENTS.md`, `taste/` and `bin/vawe` live there. With no checkout, get one: `git clone https://github.com/vawe-hq/vawe.git && cd vawe && npm install && bin/vawe-dev doctor`.

A better film comes from a better prompt, and a better prompt comes from asking the person for the
details a thin request leaves out. This skill runs that interview once, at the start, and writes the
brief. Ask only for missing details while you write it. Once the Board is filled, show the plan and end with "If you like it, type /vawe-approve".

## 0. Ask for the details

```bash
bin/vawe new <name> --request "<the ask>" --questions-json
```

This writes nothing. It prints the open details as `calls`, each call at most 4 questions in the shape of
the AskUserQuestion tool (required details first). The list is `DETAILS` in
`harness/lib/measured-brief.mjs`; do not keep a copy. Call AskUserQuestion once per call, in order, with
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vawe-hq/vawe/vawe-brief@sha256:a5dfaeefc286b01a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.f4cb385, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_47vj275zgklxd7xa.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_47vj275zgklxd7xa)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5154 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

vawe-hq/vawe · 14 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_47vj275zgklxd7xa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vawe-hq/vawe/vawe-brief
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5dfaeefc286b01a3394ea20337edf621c8691f37d6c560a597d43ec315c6763

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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