brieflisted

# brief Before service the chef briefs the line: what is on, what is 86'd, what changed since yesterday. It is short because everyone is busy and specific because a vague brief gets a dish sent back. It is not a tour of the walk-in. It is what you need to work from, said first. This skill is that brief applied to an agent's answer. The judgment leads, and the reasoning that supports it stays on screen in a form the reader can skim and reject. **Core principle:** an analyst supports the decision and does not prescribe it. Handing over a command makes the decision for the reader. Handing over a judgment, its basis, and the runner-up supports theirs. ## Why compression alone fails The usual fix for a buried answer is to cut everything except the action. That reads fast and quietly removes the reader's ability to disagree. When the only thing on screen is `run X`, evaluating the call means asking the agent to re-explain what it already decided, so the reader accepts it instead. Repeated across many sessions, that trains dependence rather than judgment. Reasoning does not have to be long to be auditable. Prose hides reasoning inside sentences. A short labeled block exposes it as a list. Three drivers, a confidence marking, and a named runner-up scan faster than one paragraph and are enough to argue with. Same word budget, restructured. ## Two shapes Which shape fires depends on whether the agent is asserting or reporting. The split is structural on purpose: one template wi