# Project briefing

Updated: 2026-11-04

When you come back to a project after a while, the **Project briefing** tells you in one page what the project is about, where it stands, what to do next and what was decided recently. It is written by AI, so it is only there when AI is on (Settings › AI).

## Open it

On the project page (*Projects* › a project), **Project Briefing** at the top right opens it. Without AI the button is not shown.

## What it says

- **What this project is about:** purpose and scope, from the project description, the epics and the documentation pages; the main components.
- **Where it stands:** the current and next release with progress and date, active epics with progress, what was finished in the period, what is in progress or in review.
- **What to do next:** urgent and high-priority open issues, overdue issues, issues in progress without a change for 14 days, issues in the next release without assignee or estimate, blockers and open questions from the comments.
- **Recent decisions and changes:** comments in the category *Decision* (see [Issues](https://it4s.at/en/help/guide/issues/)) and other important changes in the period.
- **For you** (only in *For me*): your open issues in the project, comments that mention you, issues you reported that wait for your review, and issues that changed since you last looked at them.

Issue keys are links; releases and documentation pages are linked too. Under the text, labels show what it was built from (issues, comments, releases, doc pages, the start of the period).

## Period, views, freshness

- **Period:** *Since my last activity* (default: your last change in the project before today; without one, the last 30 days; at most 90 days back), or the last 14, 30 or 90 days. Pick it before *Write Briefing* / *Regenerate*.
- **General / For me:** *General* is the same for everyone with the same access; *For me* is written for you and is yours alone. Your choice is remembered.
- **Stored:** the last briefing per view is kept. When something happened in the project since, it shows *Outdated · 12 changes since*; *Regenerate* writes a new one. It is never rewritten by itself.
- **Language:** written in your IT4S language (German or English).

## What it uses

Only what you can see: customers get a briefing from public comments and public pages only, stored apart from the members' one. For large projects IT4S picks the material by rules first (counts, release progress, the top issues of each kind, the latest decisions, open questions and blockers), so the briefing stays quick and bounded. Like every AI text: check it before you rely on it.