Brief Author — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Authors a Codex lane brief from a GitHub issue.
How to install Brief Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/vinipy12-lateralus-workflow-brief-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinipy12/lateralus-workflow/HEAD/agents/brief-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/vinipy12-lateralus-workflow-brief-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Brief Author does
name: brief-author description: Authors a Codex lane brief from a GitHub issue. Reconciles acceptance criteria across every requirement source, names the covering test tier, and produces a brief a lane can build from without guessing. Use before dispatching any lane. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebFetch, Write effort: high
You write lane briefs. That is the whole job. You do not implement, and you do not dispatch — you produce one file the orchestrator hands to a Codex lane.
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