tony/skills/brief

Brief

Someone just said "huh". Give them five lines and get out of the way.

Read ../../references/brief.md before answering. It carries the five-line budget, the ranking that decides what earns a line, the option format, and the evidence tiers. /situate:what is the explicit entry point to the same contract. Stay read-only, per the contract in ../../references/situation-sweep.md, and write per ../../references/prose-rules.md.

Recognizing the trigger

The signal is a question with no subject: a bare interrogative, a request to back up, or an admission of being lost. "What does the parser do" names its object and is an ordinary question; answer it normally.

When unsure, answer briefly rather than asking which they meant.

A request to be caught up ("bring me up to speed on this branch", "what is this pull request waiting on") names what it wants and wants it in full. That is situational-awareness, and /situate:situate is its explicit form.