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brief

One-shot lean context brief for injecting into a subagent prompt. brief is a stripped-down sibling of sibyl context: given a goal, it prints wake-layer markdown only, with no skill ceremony, no related-graph expansion, and no JSON envelope. Pipe or paste the output straight into a worker agent's prompt.

Synopsis

bash
sibyl brief <goal> [options]

Arguments

ArgumentRequiredDescription
goalYesSubagent goal or task

Options

OptionShortDefaultDescription
--intent-ibuildAgent intent (see context)
--project-p(auto)Project ID
--all-afalseUse all accessible projects
--budget1500Token budget for the rendered brief (100-8000)

Examples

bash
# Lean brief for a worker agent
sibyl brief "implement the password reset endpoint"

# Bias toward debugging context with a smaller budget
sibyl brief "auth token refresh fails intermittently" --intent debug --budget 800

# Inject straight into a subagent prompt
PACK=$(sibyl brief "wire up OAuth2")

Notes

  • brief always uses the wake layer with related-graph expansion off, so it is faster and leaner than context. Reach for context when you need a deeper pack, raw memories, a diary, or JSON.
  • The project resolves from the current directory unless you pass --project or --all.

Released under the Apache-2.0 License.