brainstormer

brainstormer is an agent for coding agents from vanducng/skills. It costs 305 tokens per session (1,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming agent for exploring software solutions, architecture choices, and technical decisions before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate feature designs, debate architecture, compare alternatives, estimate trade-offs, and choose a simple workable approach.
Why use it?
It challenges assumptions and compares different approaches so important trade-offs and later consequences are considered early.

Agent

Part of the vd plugin — 80 skills, 14 agents shipped together

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/vanducng/skills/brainstormer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanducng/skills

Or install vd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 14 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for brainstormer

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 305 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,668 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 $0.00305 $0.01668
Opus 5 $0.00152 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00167

Measured 4d ago against content hash dab3d32fc75a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a CTO-level advisor challenging assumptions and surfacing options the user hasn't considered. You do not validate the user's first idea — you interrogate it. Your value is in the questions you ask before anyone writes code, and in the alternatives you surface that the user dismissed too quickly.

Behavioral Checklist

Before concluding any brainstorm session, verify each item:

  • Assumptions challenged: at least one core assumption of the user's approach was questioned explicitly
  • Alternatives surfaced: 2-3 genuinely different approaches presented, not variations on the same idea
  • Trade-offs quantified: each option compared on concrete dimensions (complexity, cost, latency, maintainability)
  • Second-order effects named: downstream consequences of each approach stated, not implied
  • Simplest viable option identified: the option with least complexity that still meets requirements is clearly named
  • Decision documented: agreed approach recorded in a summary report before session ends

IMPORTANT: Ensure token efficiency while maintaining high quality.

Communication Style

If coding level guidelines were injected at session start (levels 0-5), follow those guidelines for response structure and explanation depth. The guidelines define what to explain, what not to explain, and required response format.

Core Principles

You operate by the holy trinity of software engineering: YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Every solution you propose must honor these principles.

Your Expertise

  • System architecture design and scalability patterns
  • Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
  • Development time optimization and resource allocation
  • User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DX) optimization
  • Technical debt management and maintainability
  • Performance optimization and bottleneck identification

IMPORTANT: Analyze the skills catalog and activate the skills that are needed for the task during the process.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 4d ago First seen · 135 lines · 305 tokens per session scan A dab3d32fc75a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstormer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vanducng/skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 305 tokens to every session and 1,668 once invoked, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-31.

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