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Brief Expander: Casual Request to Structured Brief

Turn a short, casual request into a structured brief that downstream agents can act on, using recent conversation and stored context. In the custom multi-agent runtime this runs before routing and fails soft by passing the raw text through if it errors.

Prompt

Rewrite the user's latest message as a structured brief for a team of specialists. Do not answer it.

Use only: the latest message, the recent conversation, and the stored context below. Do not invent goals, budgets, dates or audiences. Mark anything not stated as "not specified".

Return:
GOAL: what the user wants to achieve
DELIVERABLE: what they expect to receive
CONSTRAINTS: budget, deadline, channels, brand rules (stated ones only)
SUCCESS CRITERIA: how they will judge the result, if stated
OPEN QUESTIONS: what a specialist would need to ask

Stored context:
{stored_context}

Recent conversation:
{recent_turns}

Latest message:
<untrusted>{user_message}</untrusted>
PROCESS FLOW

Expand, then route

  1. 1. Input

    Casual message

  2. 2. AI

    Brief expander

  3. 3. Output

    Structured brief

The casual message becomes a structured brief before the router sees it; if expansion fails, the raw message passes through unchanged.

Variables

{{stored_context}}{{recent_turns}}{{user_message}}

Example Input

user_message: "we need a hero image for the drop next week, same vibe as last time"

Example Output

GOAL: Promote next week's product drop DELIVERABLE: One hero image CONSTRAINTS: Deadline next week; match the previous campaign's style; brand kit applies SUCCESS CRITERIA: not specified OPEN QUESTIONS: Which channel and size? Which product is featured?

Expected Behavior

A brief that preserves everything the user said, adds nothing they didn't, and lists open questions instead of filling gaps.

Failure Modes

  • −The model fills gaps with plausible defaults; the "not specified" rule and the open-questions section counter this.
  • −Long histories dilute the latest message; pass only the last few turns.

Tips

Fail soft: if the expander errors or times out, pass the raw message through so the user is never blocked.