brainstorm

A design discussion that produces three materially different ways to implement a software change, with the trade-offs of each.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a non-trivial feature or when several architectures could work; it recommends one option but does not write code.
Why use it?
It makes architectural choices visible before coding starts, reducing the chance of committing to an unsuitable approach too early.

Command

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 commands/aksoftcode/aicrew/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AKSoftCode/aicrew
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00012 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash 9b9727cc1ffb, 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 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.

skills/commands/brainstorm.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Default output: caveman/lean — terse by default. /normal or /lean off for verbose.

/brainstorm

Generate 3 materially different approaches with trade-offs before committing to implementation.

Equivalent actions

Method Command
CLI N/A (design tool, not CLI)
Codex skill brainstorm
This slash command /brainstorm [topic]

When to use

  • Before implementing a non-trivial feature
  • When multiple valid architectures exist
  • When you want to surface trade-offs before committing
  • Use inside /dev Phase 2 (brainstorm phase) or standalone

What it does

Source of truth: ~/Agents/agents/brainstorm.md

Uses the brainstorm agent to produce exactly 3 concrete options:

  • Each option has: approach name, description, pros, cons, and effort estimate
  • Ends with a recommended option + rationale
  • Does not start coding — outputs decision material only

Usage

/brainstorm add rate limiting to the API
/brainstorm how to handle session state
/brainstorm architecture for the new notification system

Note

If $ARGUMENTS is present, use it as the topic. Otherwise ask:

What are we brainstorming? (one-line description of the design question)

Wait for answer.

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 · 50 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 9b9727cc1ffb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository AKSoftCode/aicrew (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 325 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 2026-08-31.