title: The /briefing Command category: ChatHub tags: chat, briefing, executive-summary, dashboard, insights priority: Normal

The /briefing Command

The /briefing command delivers an executive-level summary of your identity environment in a single, comprehensive response. It is one of the most valuable features in ChatHub, providing a snapshot of your environment's health, security posture, and pending action items.

What the Briefing Includes

When you run /briefing, the BriefingCommand gathers data from across IdentityCenter's subsystems and compiles it into a structured report. The briefing covers the following areas:

Identity Overview

Synchronization Status

The briefing reports on your most recent sync operations:

• Last Sync Time -- When the most recent sync project completed
• Sync Result -- Success, partial success, or failure status
• Items Processed -- Number of objects created, updated, or unchanged
• Pending Syncs -- Any scheduled sync projects that have not yet run

Policy and Compliance

Access Reviews

• Pending Access Reviews -- Number of reviews awaiting completion
• Upcoming SLA Breaches -- Reviews approaching their due date
• Overdue Reviews -- Reviews that have passed their deadline
• Campaign Progress -- Completion percentage for active campaigns

Security Events

Top Action Items

The briefing concludes with a prioritized list of recommended actions. These are generated by the Intelligence engine and ranked by urgency:

1. Critical policy violations requiring immediate attention
2. Overdue access reviews approaching SLA breach
3. Inactive privileged accounts flagged for review
4. Stale computer accounts exceeding the inactivity threshold
5. Security configuration risks (unconstrained delegation, reversible encryption)

When to Use the Briefing

Daily Morning Review

Start each day with a briefing to understand what happened overnight and what needs attention. This is the most common use case:

/briefing

Review the output, then click follow-up suggestion chips to investigate any flagged items.

Before Management Meetings

Generate a briefing before meeting with leadership or security stakeholders. The briefing provides the data points typically requested in executive reviews:

• How many identities are under management?
• Are there any open security issues?
• What is the compliance posture?
• Are access reviews on track?

After Major Changes

Run a briefing after significant environment changes to verify the impact:

• After a large sync import
• After bulk account operations
• After policy configuration changes
• After an organizational restructure

Incident Response

During a security investigation, the briefing provides immediate context about the environment's current state, including recent account changes and active violations.

Proactive Greeting Briefing

When you first open ChatHub, the system automatically provides an abbreviated environment snapshot as part of its greeting. This mini-briefing includes:

• A count of items needing attention
• The most recent sync status
• Any critical alerts

This is lighter than the full /briefing output and serves as a quick pulse check. If anything catches your eye, type /briefing for the complete view.

How the BriefingCommand Works

The BriefingCommand implementation follows this process:

1. Data Collection -- The command queries multiple services in parallel: sync status, policy violations, access review progress, recent security events, and object statistics.
2. ConversationContext -- The command accesses the current user's ConversationContext to personalize the output (e.g., highlighting items relevant to the user's responsibilities).
3. Intelligence Integration -- The Intelligence engine's ContextualInsightService contributes risk-scored action items and anomaly flags.
4. Response Formatting -- Data is formatted into a structured, readable report with sections, tables, and priority indicators.
5. Suggestion Chips -- After the briefing, follow-up suggestions are generated based on the most notable findings (e.g., "Show inactive admin accounts" if stale privileged accounts were flagged).

Customizing Briefing Content

You can influence what appears in your briefing through IdentityCenter's configuration:

Using Briefing Data for Reports

The briefing output provides a useful foundation for reports:

1. Run /briefing to get the current snapshot
2. Copy relevant sections into your report
3. Use /report compliance or /report privileged-access for detailed, exportable report formats
4. Combine briefing data with Dashboard Reporting for visual charts and graphs

Example Briefing Output

Environment Briefing - February 20, 2026

IDENTITY OVERVIEW
  Total Objects:     12,847
  Users:             8,234 (7,891 active / 343 disabled)
  Computers:         3,102 (2,980 active / 122 disabled)
  Groups:            1,287 (894 security / 393 distribution)
  Service Accounts:  224

SYNC STATUS
  Last Sync:         Today at 06:00 AM (Full AD Sync)
  Result:            Success - 12,847 objects processed
  Next Scheduled:    Today at 12:00 PM

POLICY COMPLIANCE
  Overall Score:     94.2%
  Open Violations:   47
    Critical: 3  |  High: 12  |  Medium: 22  |  Low: 10

ACCESS REVIEWS
  Pending Reviews:   156
  Due Within 7 Days: 42
  Overdue:           8

ACTION ITEMS
  1. [CRITICAL] 3 privileged accounts inactive >90 days
  2. [HIGH] 8 overdue access reviews - SLA breach imminent
  3. [HIGH] 12 accounts with "password never expires" in admin groups
  4. [MEDIUM] 22 computers inactive >90 days
  5. [MEDIUM] 5 groups with no members (candidates for cleanup)

Briefing Follow-Up Workflow

After reviewing a briefing, a typical investigation workflow might look like:

1. Review the briefing -- Identify the highest-priority items
2. Investigate critical items -- "Show me the 3 inactive privileged accounts"
3. Take action -- /disable stale-admin-01 or route to a review campaign
4. Verify the change -- /audit user:stale-admin-01 last:1h
5. Re-run briefing -- Confirm the action item count decreased

Next Steps

• ChatHub Slash Commands Reference -- Full reference for all available commands
• Natural Language Queries -- Ask questions in plain English
• ChatHub Advanced Features -- Alert subscriptions and saved queries
• Intelligence Hub Overview -- The analytics engine powering briefing insights
• Dashboard and Reporting -- Visual dashboards and exportable reports
• Access Reviews Overview -- Managing access review campaigns