Recommendation Brief

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Recommendation Brief skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Recommendation Brief is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: languages · Last updated: 2026-07-31

lang:rust type:audit

Assembles the final EMPTOR BRIEF for a purchase decision and runs its pre-flight audit: ranked pick with confidence-and-because clauses, trade-off map, evaluation matrix, sensitivity, forensics flags, trust-checked merchants, freshness stamps, and the feedback footer. Use during emptor's brief phase after evaluation completes, or standalone to re-render an existing evaluation into the brief contract. Rejects and regenerates rather than delivering an unauditable brief.

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About this skill (catalog notes)

Recommendation Brief includes pricing or quota commentary; at least one code block. The SKILL.md runs to about 677 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.

Source: skill-library-prod.web.app
License: MIT
Original author: npbuilds
Indexed lastmod: 2026-07-31
Catalog position: Engineering · languages
Indexed related skills: 10

How Recommendation Brief fits the catalog

Recommendation Brief sits in the Engineering category under the languages sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Action skill: the output contract of the consumer-research suite. Commercial AI shopping tools have a documented explainability void — users can't see why X beat Y. The EMPTOR BRIEF is the inverse: every claim cited, every confidence tagged with a because-clause, every weight visible, and the brief declares its own expiry.

What this skill does

Recommendation Brief is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the languages sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Recommendation Brief Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 168,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/recommendation-brief/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\recommendation-brief\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Recommendation Brief Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/recommendation-brief/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Recommendation Brief skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Recommendation Brief skill?

Use Recommendation Brief when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the languages area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Recommendation Brief" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/engineering/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Recommendation Brief skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Recommendation Brief is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/npbuilds/skill-library/blob/HEAD/skills/consumer-research/recommendation-brief/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: npbuilds
Website: https://skill-library-prod.web.app/

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

npbuilds. (2026). Recommendation Brief [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/recommendation-brief/

BibTeX

@misc{recommendation-brief-2026,
  author    = {npbuilds},
  title     = {Recommendation Brief [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/recommendation-brief/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-07-31 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›

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