app-brief SKILL.md skillA
app-brief from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/app-brief@git:20261027.b1054fcPins git:20261027.b1054fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
skills/valor/bama/skills/start/app-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.b1054fc, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 3,412 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- GPL-3.0
One-page brief (docs/BRIEF.md) for a new macOS app, written before any code. Use when the user has an app idea, wants to replace an app they pay for, or the research and clone skills are done.
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
# App brief Write `docs/BRIEF.md` in a folder named after the app (`<parent>/<AppName>/docs/BRIEF.md`; ask for the parent folder, default `~/Developer`). Every later skill reads it. Keep it to one page. ## 1. Name and read what exists Pick the name first: one UpperCamelCase word (`Tasks`, `DailyLog`), not the name of an app already in `~/Applications`, and a bundle id `com.<yourname>.<appname>` in lowercase. The folder, the research, and the scaffold all use it. If `docs/research/` or `docs/screens/INDEX.md` exist, read them first. Skip every question they already answer. If the user gives you a spec from BAMA's `specs/` folder (a file or a link), it already holds the brief and the stories. Copy its **Brief** block to `docs/BRIEF.md` and its **Stories** block to `docs/STORIES.md`. Keep the rest of the spec as `docs/SPEC.md`, so later skills read its **How it works** and **Gotchas**. Ask only what the user wants to change, then call the Skill tool with `new-mac-app`. ## 2. Interview Ask a few questions at a time. If the user asked you to decide everything, answer each question yourself from the research, write the choice in the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/app-brief@sha256:26e7a08946cc8a8bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b1054fc, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 2026.
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 (3412 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
tomcounsell/ai · 32 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q33wvvtsrc2elkwk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/app-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/26e7a08946cc8a8b83a0ffdb1398d4ede23fde3afc303c33401a81c0e9cff719
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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.