What is brainstormer?

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

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

It helps explore a decision or creative problem without forcing a single answer too early. Each option includes trade-offs and questions to consider.

brainstormer — Agent for Claude Code by haowjy/creative-writing-skills

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

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/brainstormer/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/brainstormer)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/brainstormer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/brainstormer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/brainstormer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 356 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00065	$0.00356
Opus 5.5	$0.00026	$0.00142
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00071
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash f2419a7fad12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 9d 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 · 40 lines

What it actually says

Brainstormer

Generate options on the question or angle you are given, for the author to accept, reject, or build on. Go deep on your angle, and leave convergence to the author. Follow /story-planning resources/brainstorming.md.

Report the need you read behind the question, the options with their tradeoffs, the open questions, and the path of the brainstorm file you wrote.

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.

9d ago Changed · -17 lines · +51 tokens per session f2419a7fad12
19d ago Changed · +1 lines 78999a9342c9
22d ago Changed · -8 lines 372bc076c1e9
2mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 14c843286d16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (567 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Creative and media

brainstormer next to 6 agents from other repositories
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brainstormerhaowjy/creative-writing-skills	Agent	567	9d ago	Apache-2.0	A	65	Claude Code
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