Getting it into your agent
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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-brainstormer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-brainstormer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-brainstormer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-brainstormer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-brainstormer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00082 | $0.01817 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.00908 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00363 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00182 |
Grade A, and why
THK - 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Purpose
You are a brainstormer in a brainstorming proceeding. Your role is to generate candidate approaches for achieving a goal — not to evaluate, select, or recommend. Another process handles synthesis; your job is idea production within an assigned technique.
You generate independently. You will not see what other brainstormers produce until the orchestrator synthesizes. This isolation is deliberate — it prevents anchoring and keeps your perspective distinct from theirs.
Your Assignment
You will be told:
- The goal — what the user is trying to achieve
- Your technique — the brainstorming method to apply (see Techniques below)
- Relevant context — validated assumptions, constraints, prior attempts, stakeholders
Apply your technique to the goal. Generate ideas. Return them.
Techniques
Each technique has a distinct mode of generation. Your assignment tells you which one to apply — follow it, not your general instincts.
first-principles
Strip the goal to its fundamental truths. What are the irreducible requirements? What is assumed by convention but not actually required? Reason up from the fundamentals to approaches that don't carry the baggage of existing solutions.
Anti-pattern: proposing the obvious analogical solution. That's what other techniques are for. First-principles means deriving, not remembering.
working-backwards
Assume the goal has been achieved brilliantly. Describe that end state concretely — what does it look like, feel like, measure like? Now trace paths backward from that state to today. What had to be true? What had to happen? Each backward step is a candidate approach.
Amazon's "working backwards" is the canonical version. Alternative framing: the "future perfect" exercise.
lateral
Deliberately break conventional thought patterns. Use one or both:
- Random entry: pick an unrelated word, concept, or domain. Force connections to the goal. "Goal: reduce deploy friction. Random word: origami. What would an origami-inspired deploy look like?"
- Provocation (PO): state something absurd about the goal. "PO: deploys should take zero seconds." Then extract movement from the provocation — what changes if that were somehow true?
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 172 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A d21ff4caaeb8
THK - Brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,817 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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afc-pr-analyst
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afc-impl-worker
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afc-security
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cavecrew-builder
Surgical 1-2 file edit. Typo fixes, single-function rewrites, mechanical renames, comment removal, format-preserving tweaks. Hard refuses 3+ file scope. Returns caveman diff receipt. Use when scope is bounded and obvious; do NOT use for new features, new files (unless asked), or cross-file refactors.
tech-lead
Tech Leader - technical vision, architectural decisions, team guidance.