Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance,
consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking
as you.
A context brief is a short passage — roughly 150 to 400 words — that gives a reader with none of your history enough background to answer one specific question, and nothing beyond it. How it differs from a summary, an executive summary, and documentation.
Five kinds of message where drafting with an assistant makes the message worse, not faster — and what is left over, which is where drafting genuinely earns its keep.
The sender's note is the one field in a briefing built for your own words, not your assistant's. Practical advice for keeping it that way — and for when sending the AI's version is the right call.
Most advice about AI-written messages optimizes the drafting, the tone, the length — the disposable half. Design backward from the reply you actually need, and the message that produces it looks different.