What do I need to use Delegation Brief?

The task and its real outcome; The delegate's altitude; The true constraints (optional); The delegator's honest failure mode.

Is Delegation Brief free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Delegation Brief

Q: How do I know the Delegation Brief output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The outcome has a done-test the delegate can self-apply; Context (why/for-whom) is present — not just the task; Constraints and preferences are separated and labeled; Autonomy is explicit per decision class.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Delegate so the work comes back right the first time — the brief that transfers outcome, context, and constraints (not just the task), the autonomy level stated explicitly, and the check-in design that catches drift without hovering. Use when asked hand this off properly, my delegations come back wrong, write a brief for this task I'm giving away, or how much detail do I give. Produces the delegation brief with the outcome and guardrails, the autonomy level, the check-in points, and the questions-welcome contract.

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What to give it

▸The task and its real outcome — what does done look like, observably, and what is this *for* (the context that lets the delegate make the hundred small calls the brief can't enumerate)

▸The delegate's altitude — their experience with this work-kind; the brief's grain and the autonomy level calibrate to the person, not the task alone

▸The true constraints (optional) — the actual guardrails (budget, tone, the stakeholder landmine, the deadline's hardness) — separated from the delegator's *preferences*, which are optional and labeled

▸The delegator's honest failure mode — hoverer or vanisher? The check-in design compensates for the actual person on both ends

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The outcome has a done-test the delegate can self-apply

✓Context (why/for-whom) is present — not just the task

✓Constraints and preferences are separated and labeled

✓Autonomy is explicit per decision class

✓The first-artifact check-in is scheduled, and the read-back happened

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not delegate activities — outcomes with done-tests, or you'll get exactly what you said

Do not smuggle preferences as constraints — it caps the delegate at your imagination

Do not leave autonomy implicit — the guessing game produces hovering and overreach in equal measure

Do not review only the final artifact — drift caught at 90% is a rewrite with feelings

Do not take the work back at the first wobble — the brief gets patched, the delegate keeps the pen ([the growth is the point])

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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