brief Skill
Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response. Use when starting your day and need a scan of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and contracts, when researching a specific legal question across internal sources, or when a developing situation (data breach, l Published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins.
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Data analysis, Research, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions
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23 days ago · Apache-2.0 license
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What is brief Skill?
Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response. Use when starting your day and need a scan of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and contracts, when researching a specific legal question across internal sources, or when a developing situation (data breach, l Published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.
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Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Data analysis
- Research
- Data analysis use cases
- Research use cases
Declared skill metadata
- Source file: legal/skills/brief/SKILL.md
These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.
Compatibility and setup
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use brief Skill
- Use it for data analysis.
- Use it for research.
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Source
- Creator: anthropics
- Repository: anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
- Skill file: legal/skills/brief/SKILL.md
What it does
Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response. Use when starting your day and need a scan of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and contracts, when researching a specific legal question across internal sources, or when a developing situation (data breach, l
Skill instructions
/brief -- Legal Team Briefing If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md. Generate contextual briefings for legal work. Supports three modes: daily brief, topic brief, and incident brief. Important: This command assists with legal workflows but does not provide legal advice. Briefings should be reviewed by qualified legal professionals before being relied upon. Invocation /brief daily Morning brief of legal-relevant items /brief topic [query] Research brief on a specific legal question /brief incident [topic] Rapid brief on a developing situation If no mode is specified, ask the user which type of brief they need. Modes --- Daily Brief A morning summary of everything a legal team member needs to know to start their day. Sources to Scan Check each connected source for legal-relevant items: Email (if connected): - New contract requests or review requests - Compliance questions or reports - Responses from counterparties on active negot
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Frequently asked questions
What is brief?
brief is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response.
Who is brief best for?
brief is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, data analysis workflows, research workflows.
How do I install brief?
Install or run brief using Copy skill directory. Check brief for the latest setup command.
Is brief actively maintained?
brief may need a closer maintenance check before production use.
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Review this source-backed profile, send a correction with evidence, or link to it from your documentation. Claims verify your relationship to the project; profile facts still require source evidence and editorial review.
