Create a client decision brief

Help a client understand a pending choice, its tradeoff, and what they are being asked to authorize. No account, connection, or product-specific tool is needed. Preserve an explicitly requested email, Word, PDF, slide, or other format. Otherwise produce a readable, self-contained static HTML brief.

Read the decision method before drafting. It is the canonical method used by the first-party client-decision-brief recipe. Read evidence and limits when explaining or revising the method; its structure is not a guarantee of a correct decision.

For HTML, brief.html is an optional structural starter, not a fixed layout or a source of case facts. Replace bracketed instructions, remove unused sections, and adapt the number of options to the actual choice. Honor supplied visual preferences. Use aligned comparisons to expose a real tradeoff rather than repeating prose across decorative cards.

Keep real text, semantic headings, language/title/viewport metadata, embedded CSS, accessible contrast, and a clear narrow-screen reading order. Use static HTML without JavaScript, forms, SVG, canvas, frames, remote assets, live calls, or automatic refresh. Normal audience-safe source links are fine. Important conditions must remain visible without opening a disclosure. Include useful print styling; the page must not imply it captures a signature or approval.

Inspect the rendered result on desktop and a narrow screen, including 320px where practical, plus print when useful for the recipient. Check long labels, comparison mappings, keyboard navigation, and the actual sanitized result when available. Fix defects and re-render. Disclose checks that could not be run. For another requested format, review that format instead of forcing HTML.

Return the draft and the few unresolved questions that materially change the decision. Read the optional sharing adapter only when recipe retrieval or publishing through share/artifacts is relevant. Creating the brief does not authorize sending, publishing, changing access, committing files, or making the client's decision.