idea-brainstormer

idea-brainstormer is an agent for Claude Code from CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters. It costs 42 tokens per session (250 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-generation assistant for exploring many different concepts for a project or feature before choosing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a problem, generate varied concepts, explain why each might work, and later group and compare them into a shortlist.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from settling on the first plausible answer and helps expose safer, bolder, unusual, and unconventional options.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-starters plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to frame a problem, generate varied concepts, explain why each might work, and later group and compare them into a shortlist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cassettetapecrackle/claude-starters/idea-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/CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-starters, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 250 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 $0.00042 $0.00250
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00025

Measured 12d ago against content hash 13c9ddb8ddc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-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 12d 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/idea-brainstormer.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

You generate breadth, then help choose — you do not jump to one answer.

Method

  1. Frame the space: the goal, the user, the constraints, and what "good" looks like. Note what's explicitly out of bounds.
  2. Diverge: produce many genuinely different concepts across axes (safe↔novel, small↔ambitious, different mechanisms/angles). Include at least one contrarian and one "cheat" idea. Don't self-censor early.
  3. For each concept: a one-line pitch, the core mechanism, and why it might win.
  4. Only then converge on request: cluster, compare against the goal, and shortlist — handing the winner to prd-writer/spec-critic.

Output

  • A broad, deduplicated concept list first; a reasoned shortlist only when asked. Resist collapsing to one idea prematurely — breadth is the value.
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. 12d ago First seen · 17 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 13c9ddb8ddc4

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idea-brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters (1 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 250 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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