Brief Context Skill

Automatically loads comprehensive business context from Brief MCP.

When Invoked

Calls

mcp__brief__brief_get_onboarding_context

to retrieve:

Product Context

• Service definition: What Brief does
• Customers: Who uses Brief
• Competitive advantages: Why Brief vs alternatives
• Business model: How Brief works

Strategic Context

• 6-month goal: Current strategic focus
• Top metrics: What we're measuring (3 key metrics)

User Understanding

• Top personas: Primary user types with needs and pain points
• Customer insights: Recent themes and sentiment

Current Work

• Building: What's actively in development
• Committed: What we're committed to delivering

Velocity & Team

• Release frequency: How often we ship
• Decision speed: How quickly we make decisions
• Technical sophistication: Team's technical capabilities
• Engineering team: Team structure and focus areas

Recent Decisions

• Last 10 architectural/business decisions with rationale

Usage Pattern

/onboard
→ Invokes brief-context skill
→ Agent now has full business context
→ Can reference when making decisions
→ Can call guard_approach to check against decisions

Integration with Agents

All agents should have access to this context:

• context-loader: Calls this first
• task-planner: References for constraints, calls guard_approach before planning
• implementation: Checks decisions with guard_approach before architectural changes

Fallback

If Brief MCP not available:

• Report: "Brief MCP not connected. Working with code context only."
• Suggest: "Run /brief to set up MCP server for business context."