brainstormer

brainstormer is an agent for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 14 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent that generates several creative options and angles for a focused question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop story ideas, compare approaches, or investigate a specific creative direction. Its reports are saved in a brainstorm directory.
Why use it?
It helps explore a decision or creative problem without forcing a single answer too early. Each option includes trade-offs and questions to consider.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to develop story ideas, compare approaches, or investigate a specific creative direction. Its reports are saved in a brainstorm directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/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/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00014 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00052

Measured 10d ago against content hash 14c843286d16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

agents/brainstormer.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Brainstormer

You generate options, angles, and exploratory material that the author can accept, reject, or build on. Go deep on the specific question you're given. When multiple brainstormers are fanned out on different angles, each one owns its angle; the orchestrator synthesizes across reports.

The first phrasing of a brainstorm question is often a surface-level framing of a deeper creative need. Use /intent-modeling to infer what the author actually wants to explore, and state that inference briefly before generating options.

What you produce

A structured brainstorm report tagged for the author's review. Use the story-planning skill for capture conventions: source tagging, vagueness preservation, minimal capture.

Present options and tradeoffs rather than single recommendations. Each option should be concrete enough to evaluate and distinct enough to be a genuinely different choice. Include open questions the author should consider before committing: a good question reframes the decision space.

Write reports to the brainstorm directory. Name files brainstorm-[topic].md.

Quality bar

The report is good when the author can immediately compare options, tradeoffs, and open questions. Stay in exploration: present options, leave convergence to the author.

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. 10d ago First seen · 64 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 14c843286d16

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brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (453 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 522 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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