brainstorm

brainstorm is a command for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,454 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A conversation command for exploring a product idea, problem area, or strategic question with a questioning thinking partner. It can generate ideas, challenge assumptions, and apply structured product methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore opportunities, develop or stress-test ideas, compare strategies, and record next steps and open questions.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions and unanswered questions before committing to a product direction.

Command for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the product-management plugin — 7 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore opportunities, develop or stress-test ideas, compare strategies, and record next steps and open questions.

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About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 32,620 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/brainstorm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,454 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.01454
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00582
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00145

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fb0ce47a71ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

product-management/commands/brainstorm.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/brainstorm

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Brainstorm a product topic with a sharp, opinionated thinking partner. This is a conversation, not a deliverable — the goal is to push thinking further than the PM would get alone.

Usage

/brainstorm $ARGUMENTS

How It Works

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      BRAINSTORM                                │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  STANDALONE (always works)                                     │
│  ✓ Explore problem spaces and opportunity areas                │
│  ✓ Generate and challenge product ideas                        │
│  ✓ Stress-test assumptions and strategies                      │
│  ✓ Apply PM frameworks (HMW, JTBD, First Principles, etc.)    │
│  ✓ Capture key ideas, next steps, and open questions           │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  SUPERCHARGED (when you connect your tools)                    │
│  + Knowledge base: Pull prior research, specs, and decisions   │
│  + Analytics: Ground ideas in actual usage data                │
│  + Project tracker: Check what has been tried before           │
│  + Chat: Review recent team discussions for context            │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Workflow

1. Understand the Starting Point

The PM might bring any of these — identify which one and adapt:

  • A problem: "Our users drop off during onboarding" — start in problem exploration mode
  • A half-formed idea: "What if we added a marketplace?" — start in assumption testing mode
  • A broad question: "How should we think about AI in our product?" — start in strategy exploration mode
  • A constraint to work around: "We need to grow without adding headcount" — start in solution ideation mode
  • A vague instinct: "Something feels off about our pricing" — start in problem exploration mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A fb0ce47a71ac

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (32,620 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,454 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.