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brief from escoffier-labs/skillet is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/brief@v0.2.0Pins v0.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- escoffier-labs/skillet
- Path
skillet/skills/brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.2.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 8,414 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when answering at a decision point - recommending an approach, reporting a verification result, finishing a task, proposing a fix, or assessing whether something is ready - so the judgment leads and the reader can evaluate it instead of only accepting it. Triggers on "brief mode", "bluf this", "bottom line", "brief it", "stop burying the answer", "what did I miss", "catch me up".
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 Before service the chef briefs the line: what is on, what is 86'd, what changed since yesterday. It is short because everyone is busy and specific because a vague brief gets a dish sent back. It is not a tour of the walk-in. It is what you need to work from, said first. This skill is that brief applied to an agent's answer. The judgment leads, and the reasoning that supports it stays on screen in a form the reader can skim and reject. **Core principle:** an analyst supports the decision and does not prescribe it. Handing over a command makes the decision for the reader. Handing over a judgment, its basis, and the runner-up supports theirs. ## Why compression alone fails The usual fix for a buried answer is to cut everything except the action. That reads fast and quietly removes the reader's ability to disagree. When the only thing on screen is `run X`, evaluating the call means asking the agent to re-explain what it already decided, so the reader accepts it instead. Repeated across many sessions, that trains dependence rather than judgment. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add escoffier-labs/skillet/brief@sha256:9e7dd5b61727f2eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.0, 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_g2kpbxdo2hhi7xoy)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 24, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 57 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.0 latest | 2026-10-20 | d86ac11 | 8,414 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-24 | a2f0773 | 7,425 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8414 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
escoffier-labs/skillet · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g2kpbxdo2hhi7xoy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/skillet/brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9e7dd5b61727f2ea76d4451c9fd11599feea620675dbed5d37a0916e292d2cb1
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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