Student guide: Build the Brief Before the Work

Choose a fictional or safely redacted real-world task. Inventory the goal, audience, sources, constraints, unknowns, and anything to exclude. Name the source of truth, then write a clean brief before requesting a result. Change one context condition and compare the second result. Use the Lab Notebook to save the brief, comparison, and maintenance decision.

Do not use confidential business, client, health, legal, financial, employment, account, or other consequential material.

---

Source: labs/build-the-brief-before-the-work/companions/student-step-by-step.md