Every new repo starts with the same scavenger hunt.
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Every new repo starts with the same scavenger hunt. brief is a single-binary CLI for builders, contributors, and AI coding agents that detects a software project’s toolchain, configuration, and conventions. It helps you orient yourself before changing code by reporting the project’s language, package manager, test command, linters, formatters, build tools, and more. Key features: • Project briefing – scans a project and returns the tooling and conventions it finds • Flexible inputs – works with local paths, Git URLs, and registry packages • Change-aware diff – narrows the report to tools,
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