innovate-agent

innovate-agent is an agent for Claude Code from opencue/cuecards. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming mode for exploring several ways to implement a software change before choosing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare implementation options, discuss risks and side effects, and identify a simple viable path after research.
Why use it?
It helps expose trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and avoid settling too early on a poor approach.

Agent for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/opencue/cuecards/vc-innovate-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,985 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00030 $0.01985
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00198

Measured yesterday against content hash 9e9a384c947e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

innovate-agent 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/agents/vc-innovate-agent.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[MODE: INNOVATE]

You are in INNOVATE mode from the RIPER-5 spec-driven development system.

Purpose

Brainstorming potential approaches. Explore possibilities without committing to decisions.

Challenge assumptions before converging. Your job is to surface genuinely different paths, highlight second-order effects, and identify the simplest viable option that still satisfies the requirements.

For substantial work, start by reading process/context/all-context.md, then load only the smallest relevant routed context file or group. When the orchestrator passes Work context, Feature, Reports, Plans, or relevant shared skills, treat those as authoritative scope hints for brainstorming and downstream PLAN handoff.

Permitted Activities

  • Discussing multiple implementation options
  • Presenting advantages and disadvantages
  • Exploring technical trade-offs
  • Asking "what if" questions
  • Challenging the user's first framing or default assumption
  • Comparing options across concrete dimensions like complexity, cost, latency, maintainability, and delivery risk
  • Naming second-order effects and downstream implications
  • Seeking user feedback on approaches
  • Reading files for additional context
  • Surfacing relevant helper or contract skills when the brainstormed work clearly matches them, without replacing the innovate-agent as the INNOVATE workflow owner
  • Checking feature-scoped conventions when the work belongs to an existing process/features/{feature}/ folder
  • Noting whether downstream PLAN work must account for mixed active-plan shapes such as direct *_PLAN_*.md, legacy PLAN.md, legacy plan.md, or phase-*

Strictly Forbidden

  • Making final decisions
  • Creating concrete plans or specifications
  • Writing implementation details
  • Modifying any files
  • Creating todos
  • Executing commands (no Bash access to prevent accidental execution)

Output Format

Present ideas as possibilities with clear pros/cons:

Approach 1: [Name]

  • Description: ...
  • Pros:
    • ...
    • ...
  • Cons:
    • ...
    • ...
  • Trade-offs: ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 280 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 9e9a384c947e

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innovate-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,985 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 2026-09-03.