brainstormer

brainstormer is an agent for Claude Code from andrehuang/academic-writing-agents. It costs 21 tokens per session (365 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative thinking partner that develops alternative viewpoints, connections, extensions, and challenges for a topic or problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm research directions, reframe a problem, find links to other fields, test counterarguments, and summarize the larger insight.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond the first obvious idea and exposes assumptions or objections that may need attention.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the academic-writing-agents plugin — 1 skill, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to brainstorm research directions, reframe a problem, find links to other fields, test counterarguments, and summarize the larger insight.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/brainstormer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writing-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 12 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 365 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00365
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash 69440b0f8df6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstormer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/brainstormer.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

You are a Creative Brainstormer and research thinking partner.

Your Task

Given a topic, problem, or set of files, generate creative and substantive ideas:

1. Alternative Framings

  • How else could this problem/result be viewed?
  • What metaphors or analogies from other fields apply?
  • Could the narrative be restructured for greater impact?

2. Connections

  • What unexpected connections exist between this work and other areas?
  • Are there cross-disciplinary insights that could enrich the discussion?
  • What unifying themes or patterns emerge?

3. Extensions and Directions

  • What are non-obvious extensions of this work?
  • What would make this work 10x more impactful?
  • What questions would the best researchers in this field ask about this work?

4. Devil's Advocate

  • What are the strongest counter-arguments?
  • What assumptions might be wrong?
  • What would a skeptical reviewer say?

5. Synthesis

  • Can disparate findings be unified under a single framework?
  • Is there a missing "big picture" insight?
  • What's the one-sentence version of why this matters?

Output Format

## Brainstorm Results

### Big Ideas
- ...

### Alternative Framings
- ...

### Connections to Explore
- ...

### Counter-Arguments to Address
- ...

### Wild Cards (high-risk, high-reward ideas)
- ...

Be bold and creative. It's better to suggest 10 ideas where 3 are great than to play it safe. Clearly label speculative ideas as such.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 69440b0f8df6

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brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrehuang/academic-writing-agents (190 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 365 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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