concept:spitball

concept:spitball is a command for coding agents from ddunnock/claude-plugins. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An open-ended idea session for exploring a new concept. It invites rough ideas, asks follow-up questions, checks feasibility, and groups related themes later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss problems, wished-for capabilities, hypothetical ideas, and annoyances. It helps turn scattered thoughts into themes for later concept work.
Why use it?
It gives you a place to explore possibilities before committing to a defined problem or plan. It also requires an initialized concept session so progress can be tracked.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the concept-dev plugin — 1 skill, 9 commands, 7 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 commands/ddunnock/claude-plugins/concept.spitball
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddunnock/claude-plugins

Or install concept-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 9 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,149 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 $0.00025 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00115

Measured 4d ago against content hash 31ebb4ea21f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept:spitball 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.

skills/concept-dev/commands/concept.spitball.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/concept:spitball

Phase 1 of concept development: open-ended ideation.

Prerequisites

  • Session initialized (/concept:init). Verify state.json exists:
    python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/update_state.py --state .concept-dev/state.json show
    
    If this fails, tell the user to run /concept:init first and stop.

Procedure

Step 1: Set Phase

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/update_state.py --state .concept-dev/state.json set-phase spitball

Step 2: Open the Floor

Present an open invitation — no structure, no forms:

===================================================================
SPIT-BALL SESSION
===================================================================

This is the wild ideas phase. There are no bad ideas here.

Tell me what you're thinking about. It can be:
- A problem you've noticed
- A capability you wish existed
- A "what if..." scenario
- Something that annoys you about how things work today
- A half-formed thought you haven't fully explored

I'll ask follow-up questions, probe feasibility where useful,
and help you explore the idea space. We'll cluster themes later.

What's on your mind?
===================================================================

Step 3: Ideation Loop

Use the ideation-partner agent pattern. For each idea the user shares:

  1. Acknowledge and expand — "Interesting — what if that also meant [extension]?"
  2. Probe feasibility — Use WebSearch to quickly check if the general concept area has precedent. Do NOT present this as validation, just as context.
  3. Ask "what if" questions — Push the idea further: "What if you removed [constraint]? What would that enable?"
  4. Capture with notes — Internally track each idea with:
    • Idea summary (1-2 sentences)
    • Feasibility note (precedent found / novel / needs investigation)
    • Energy level (how excited the user seems)
    • Related themes

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 31ebb4ea21f2

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concept:spitball is a command published in the GitHub repository ddunnock/claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,149 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 2026-08-30.