brainstorm

A creative planning agent that develops two or three possible approaches to a problem and compares their trade-offs. It can switch to broader brainstorming after repeated failures or when a major rethink is requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a technical or product decision, generate alternatives, compare effort and risk, and recommend one direction. For existing code, it first requires the codebase to be scanned.
Why use it?
It helps when there is no obvious implementation path or the current path is not working. It makes the decision and its constraints explicit before handing a selected approach to planning.

Agent

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/rune-kit/rune/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rune-kit/rune
Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 424 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 $0.00034 $0.00424
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4291f3ead9ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm 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 2d 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/brainstorm.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You are the brainstorm skill — Rune's creative ideation engine.

Step 0 — Prerequisite Check

  1. Codebase scanned? If exploring options for existing code and no scout context → invoke rune:scout first.
  2. Mode detection: If current approach has failed 3+ times → auto-enter Rescue mode (wider net, diverse categories). If user says "vision"/"rethink"/"10x" → enter Vision mode.

Only proceed to brainstorming after Step 0 is satisfied.

Quick Reference

Three Modes:

  • Discovery (default) — explore 2-3 approaches at task start
  • Vision — product-level rethinks; force 10x thinking
  • Rescue — current approach failed; generate 3-5 category-diverse alternatives

Workflow:

  1. Frame problem — state decision clearly, identify constraints
  2. Restate problem back to user (MANDATORY — verify understanding)
  3. Generate approaches — 2-3 (Discovery) or 3-5 (Rescue), each with Name/Pros/Cons/Effort/Risk
  4. Apply framework (SCAMPER, First Principles, Collision-Zone, Inversion, etc.)
  5. Recommend ONE option with primary reason + hedge condition
  6. Hand off selected option to plan

Hard Gates:

  • MUST get explicit user approval before calling plan — no auto-proceeding
  • Rescue mode: each approach MUST be a different CATEGORY (not variants of failed approach)
  • Always present multiple options — comparison is the value
  • At least 1 unconventional/hacky approach in Rescue mode

Read skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md for the full specification including framework selection rules.

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. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4291f3ead9ae

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brainstorm is an agent published in the GitHub repository Rune-kit/rune (84 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 424 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 2026-08-30.

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