Brief
Context layer that captures product decisions for teams and AI agents
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Brief is a knowledge layer that connects a team and its coding agents to the decisions and reasoning behind a product. It plugs into GitHub and task systems and builds institutional memory that explains why each step was taken.
Humans query it through Slack, a CLI, or MCP, and coding agents pull the same context before they execute, so re-discovery loops shrink and code review gets shorter. The team reports agents following product decisions 95% of the time, up from 46% on the codebase alone, and a 68% lower cost per shipped task.
It is aimed at product and engineering teams who want both people and agents working from the same recorded rationale rather than rediscovering it each time.
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Why we picked it
Brief targets a subtler problem than most knowledge tools: not what the code does, but why a decision was made. Feeding that reasoning to coding agents before they execute is what shortens review cycles, not just storing docs.
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