brief-builder SKILL.md skillA
brief-builder from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/brief-builder@git:20260714.b87d8d4Pins git:20260714.b87d8d4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills
- Path
exports/openclaw/brief-builder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260714.b87d8d4, committed Jul 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,558 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,475
- License
- MIT
Interview the user with sharp, one-at-a-time questions to turn a vague request into a tight, complete brief any other skill can run on. Use when a request is fuzzy, under-specified, or 'help me think this through', or before running a skill that needs inputs the user hasn't given. Produces a structured brief (goal, audience, constraints, success criteria) and hands off to the right skill — by interrogating, not guessing.
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
# Brief Builder Skill
Most weak AI output comes from a weak brief — the model guessed at context instead of getting it. This skill
flips that: it **interviews** the user with focused questions, *one or two at a time*, following up where
answers are thin, until it has enough to produce excellent work. Then it writes the brief and hands off. The
whole value is asking the right questions in the right order — not producing on the first vague sentence.
## Required Inputs
- **The raw ask** — whatever the requester actually said, however vague ("we need a dashboard", "marketing wants a one-pager"). Verbatim beats paraphrased; the gaps in their words are the interrogation map.
- **Who is asking and who will consume the output** (if known) — the same ask from a CEO and an intern needs different briefs.
- Optional: any prior artifacts the ask relates to (the doc being replaced, the thread that sparked it).
## How to run this skill (the interrogation loop)
1. **Read what they gave you** and identify the *task type* (a launch? a doc? a decision? a piece of copy?).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/brief-builder@sha256:948bc9529dd0686aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.b87d8d4, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_da2b22jmh7jxlg7w)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 14, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,475 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_da2b22jmh7jxlg7w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/brief-builder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/948bc9529dd0686afd823a768524e67e57f41db4365dfdc70a008f120539110e
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.