tool-design-sprint-brief — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited tool-design-sprint-brief (Agent Skill) and scored it 91/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 1 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Produce the brief that aligns the team on challenge, sprint questions, participants, customer recruiting, prototype medium, interview format, logistics, and success criteria before Monday begins. A well-built brief prevents Monday morning from opening with re-litigation of "what are we testing this week?"; a missing or vague brief almost guarantees it.
Family contract: docs/reference/skill-families/design-sprint-skills-contract.md. This skill is a member of design-sprint-skills.
tool-design-sprint-readiness is Go (or Conditional Go with preconditions cleared).tool-design-sprint-map-and-target instead.A single bundled artifact with nine sections:
See references/TEMPLATE.md for the canonical structure and references/EXAMPLE.md for the Brainshelf book-catalog brief.
| Input | What the skill does with it |
|---|---|
Readiness verdict and recommendations (from tool-design-sprint-readiness) | Pulls the recommended attendees, customer recruiting plan, pre-sprint activities, and prototype medium proposal; flags any precondition that has not been closed |
| Challenge description | Compresses into the Challenge Statement and derives 2-4 sprint questions |
| Founding Hypothesis (optional; from a prior Foundation Sprint) | The highest-risk assumption from the FS scorecard becomes the lead sprint question; the top bet becomes the design direction; the backup becomes the fallback decision if Friday invalidates |
| Team roster | Maps people to the required Design Sprint roles (Decider, Facilitator, PM, Design, Engineering, Researcher or Customer Expert); confirms 4-7 person band |
| Customer recruiting source and plan | Locks recruiter owner, target profile, source channel, honorarium budget, deadline, and Friday schedule |
| Format (in-person, remote, hybrid; per Ratified Decision 6) | Branches the brief body where format affects authoring: recruiting plan (in-person requires geo-local cohort; remote allows cross-timezone), prototype medium (some media work better in-person; e.g., physical mock), interview format (live vs remote moderated), observer setup (in-room vs Zoom breakout room) |
| Logistics constraints | Produces the dates/hours/location/tools matrix; flags any constraint that would force the sprint to extend beyond 5 days or split across calendar weeks |
The brief MUST fit on two pages (or two screens). The DS brief is intentionally longer than the FS brief because the customer-recruiting, prototype-medium, and interview-format sections have no FS equivalent and must be committed to before Monday.
If the brief expands beyond two pages, the sprint is being over-engineered before it starts. The fix is not a longer brief; the fix is sharper sprint questions and a clearer prototype medium decision.
Prerequisites: tool-design-sprint-readiness. The brief expects the readiness output as its primary input. When prerequisites is honored, the brief inherits the readiness verdict, customer recruiting plan draft, attendee recommendations, and pre-sprint activities; the skill then refines and locks them.
If the team has done equivalent prep without running the readiness skill explicitly (e.g., experienced sprint facilitator who knows the readiness criteria), the brief skill can be invoked directly. In that case, the skill body prompts the team to confirm the readiness criteria are met before generating the brief.
A team coming from a Foundation Sprint should bring the Founding Hypothesis and assumption scorecard as inputs. The brief's Sprint Questions section pulls the highest-risk assumption verbatim as the lead question. No bridge skill is required; the narrative handoff is documented in _workflows/foundation-to-design.md.
Next invocation in the sprint: tool-design-sprint-map-and-target on Monday morning.
This skill ends with a Decider Checkpoint in references/TEMPLATE.md. The Decider signs off on scope (the challenge and sprint questions), team (the roster and attendance windows), recruiting plan (target profile, source, honorarium budget), prototype medium, interview format, and the explicit success criteria. Without sign-off, the brief is advisory; with sign-off, it is the contract for the next five days and the authorization for customer-recruiting spend.
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