Coauthor Brief

Coauthor Brief is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Coauthor Brief

Copy Coauthor Brief into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief ~/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Coauthor Brief does

Coauthor Brief generates a Markdown handoff brief for co-authors or future selves, summarizing git changes, artifact status, open questions, and local reproduction steps. Use it when onboarding a collaborator, sending a co-author the repo, or doing a periodic sync.

Coauthor Brief is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Coauthor Brief comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/coauthor-brief — Collaborator Handoff Brief

Produce a single Markdown brief a co-author (or your future self on another machine) can read in a few minutes to know what changed, where each artifact stands, what's blocked, and how to run the pipeline locally — including restricted-data access steps a new collaborator needs. meta-governance.md covers the memory side of cross-machine work (what syncs via git, what stays in gitignored personal-memory.md); this skill covers the human side: the per-person, per-session handoff.

Core principle: /checkpoint is for you resuming; /coauthor-brief is for someone else starting. The first answers "where am I?"; the second answers "what do I need to know to take over a piece of this?"

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Coauthor Brief provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/coauthor-brief
/checkpoint
/compress-session
/commit
/capture-environment
/audit-reproducibility

Frequently asked about Coauthor Brief

What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Coauthor Brief?
Coauthor Brief is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Capture Environment and Checkpoint. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Coauthor Brief does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.
How does Coauthor Brief compare to other Automation skills?
Coauthor Brief ranks #589 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Coauthor Brief against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.