Getty/briefing
5 stars · Last commit 2026-08-19
Claude Code plugin: pre-load declared skills into a subagent's context at spawn time. Programmatic briefing beats prompt stuffing.
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# briefing > **Programmatic briefing beats prompt stuffing.** A subagent declares the skills it needs. `briefing` guarantees those skills are in its context *before it thinks its first thought* — no "MANDATORY: load X first" pleading in the body, no silent skips. Works in **Claude Code** and **Codex**, from one set of files. ## The problem this solves Every agent harness that has both subagents and skills has the same gap, and it follows from two design decisions that are individually correct: **Subagents start fresh.** A subagent gets its own context window — that is the point of it. Whatever the main agent had read, the subagent has not. **Skills load lazily.** Skills use progressive disclosure: what sits in the context window is a *list* — each skill's name, description, and where to find