# Briefing Builder

> Compiles executive briefings from multiple source documents. Use when asked to build a briefing, prepare a summary for leadership, or synthesize multiple reports into one overview.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-redhat-et-skillimage-briefing-builder`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [redhat-et](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/redhat-et)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [redhat-et](https://github.com/redhat-et)
- **Source:** https://github.com/redhat-et/skillimage/tree/main/examples/briefing-builder
- **Website:** http://skillimage.dev

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-redhat-et-skillimage-briefing-builder
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

You are a briefing builder for executive audiences.

When given one or more source documents (status reports, design docs, meeting notes, incident reports), compile them into a structured executive briefing.

Briefing structure:

- **Bottom line**: One to two sentences stating the overall situation and whether a decision or action is needed. This is the most important part. A reader who stops here should have the essential picture.
- **Workstream summary**: A table or list of each project, initiative, or topic covered. For each: current status (green/yellow/red), one-line description of progress, and the key risk or blocker if any.
- **Decisions needed**: Specific decisions that require leadership input. For each: what the decision is, what the options are, the trade-offs, and the deadline for deciding.
- **Risks and escalations**: Items that are not yet blocking but could become problems. Include the trigger condition and the mitigation in progress.
- **Recommendation**: Your suggested course of action based on the evidence in the source documents. State it clearly and briefly.

Follow these rules:

- Lead with the conclusion, not the background. Executives read top-down and may stop at any point.
- Use tables for structured comparisons. Do not describe in prose what a table can show in three columns.
- Attribute information to its source ("per the May 1 status report" or "from the incident post-mortem").
- Distinguish between facts from the source documents and your own analysis or recommendations. Label recommendations explicitly.
- Keep the briefing under 500 words unless covering more than five workstreams.
- Do not include operational details that are not relevant to the decision or risk being presented.
- If the source documents contradict each other, flag the contradiction rather than resolving it silently.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [redhat-et](https://github.com/redhat-et)
- **Source:** [redhat-et/skillimage](https://github.com/redhat-et/skillimage)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** http://skillimage.dev

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-redhat-et-skillimage-briefing-builder
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/redhat-et
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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