The phrase "add brief" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It could be used in a context where someone is requesting to include a brief summary or note, but it needs additional words for clarity.
Example: "Please add a brief overview of the project in your report."
Alternatives: "include a summary" or "provide a short note."
12 02 p.m. | Updated to add brief report from San Francisco Apple store.
Historians, especially, sometimes add brief discussions of a source in the footnote that accompanies its first mention.
It might be useful to add brief details on each position in the Employment section to pick up transferable skills and add interest to the CV.
They add brief autobiographies and describe their conditions in precise detail — including potentially embarrassing particulars on sexual function, bladder control or constipation.
Websites have sprung up that present such data in a user-friendly form, such as mySociety.org's TheyWorkForYou, which provides information on British politicians and is starting to add brief summaries of their activities.
If you can, add brief descriptions about the story of the book on the side of the entry.
Student Council President Sue Yang '10 introduced the dean, and Brian C. Krisberg '81, chair of the CC Alumni Association, added brief remarks.
The French edition, now known simply as Le Guide Rouge (The Red Guide), has added brief descriptions of all establishments.
We examined effects of adding brief (1 second) lags between trials in a task designed to study errors in interrupted sequential performance.
She has silkscreened blowups of old family photographs onto bannerlike vertical strips of cloth and added brief quotations from the people depicted to form an impressionistic chronicle.
In recent years, children's television programming has begun adding brief activity interludes, encouraging children to jump, dance, spin or exercise along with the character on the television.
