task-brief SKILL.md skillA
task-brief from moonlight-lupin/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/task-brief@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- moonlight-lupin/agent-skills
- Path
productivity/task-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 9, 2026
- Size
- 9,660 bytes
- Repository stars
- 119
- License
- MIT
Use when the user says "brief this task", "scope this properly", "what do you need from me", "improve my prompt", "help me get better output", or hands over a SUBSTANTIAL task — multi-step, multi-document, or a deliverable someone else will read — as a thin one-line request. Compile a task brief BEFORE starting substantial work — pin down the goal (what "done" looks like), context, constraints (standing rules included automatically), and tooling — confirm with the user, then execute against it.
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
# Task Brief
Thin requests are the biggest cause of mediocre agent output: the agent guesses the
deliverable, the audience and the guardrails, and the user only discovers the
misreading after the work is done. This skill moves that discovery to the **cheapest
possible point** — before the work starts — by having the agent compile a short
**task brief**, show it, and only then execute. The user never has to write a better
prompt; the agent does the structuring.
## When to run it — and when not to
**Run it when:**
- the user explicitly asks ("brief this first", "make sure you understand before starting"); or
- the task is **substantial** — multi-step, multi-document, or a deliverable someone
else will read (a memo, a report, a dashboard, a document batch) — and the request
is thin or ambiguous enough that two reasonable readings would produce different work.
**Skip it** (just do the task) for quick factual questions, single-step edits, and
requests already crisp enough to act on. A brief on a trivial ask is friction, not
quality — proportionality is part of the skill. When in doubt, a one-line
restatement of the goal ("I'll read this as X — say if not") beats a full brief.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/task-brief@sha256:a6f35022a3100d3dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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_jen4v3plwrss5xu3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 9, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | a776a92 | 9,660 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-12 | e9befbf | 9,665 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-12 | 7e8bf99 | 11,016 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-12 | 12a1517 | 11,299 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-13 | 090474f | 8,974 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-09 | 4bda4cd | 8,958 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 (9660 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
moonlight-lupin/agent-skills · 119 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jen4v3plwrss5xu3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/task-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a6f35022a3100d3da6cd15bf5d649c1632f10e01f538241ebc8fcd2d7c6d85eb
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.