# The six-line brief

Use this to hand work to an agent, or to another person, or to yourself tomorrow. One line each. If you cannot write one of the lines, the work is not ready to hand off, and that is the useful part.

**Goal.** The finished state in one sentence. Not the activity.

**Current state.** Where things stand now: branch, what is already done, what is known broken.

**Relevant files.** Actual paths. The receiver should not have to search.

**Constraints.** What must not change. Public interfaces, data, other people's areas.

**Done when.** A condition someone who was not in the room can check.

**Checks to run.** The exact commands or observations that prove it.

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Goal:
Current state:
Relevant files:
Constraints:
Done when:
Checks to run: