brainstorm

brainstorm is a command for coding agents from GanyuanRan/Aegis. It costs 12 tokens per session (53 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deprecated brainstorming command. Brainstorming means exploring and organizing ideas before deciding what to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Directing users to the aegis:brainstorming skill instead of running this command.
Why use it?
It tells users that this command is no longer the intended route and may be removed.

Command

Part of the aegis plugin — 22 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

About the project

Aegis is a method pack that guides coding agents to inspect a project's baseline, make bounded changes, and verify their work with fresh evidence. It is for people using coding-agent hosts who want fewer unverified changes and less unnecessary process. The catalogue add-ons implement this method through skills, instructions, commands, a hook, and a plugin.

GanyuanRan/Aegis · 1,167 stars · on GitHub

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/ganyuanran/aegis/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis

Or install aegis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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 brainstorm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ganyuanran/aegis/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/ganyuanran/aegis/brainstorm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ganyuanran/aegis/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ganyuanran/aegis/brainstorm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 53 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 $0.00053
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00026
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00011
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00005

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6bda2e441a35, 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 5d 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.

commands/brainstorm.md · 6 lines

What it actually says

Tell your human partner that this command is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. They should ask you to use the "aegis brainstorming" skill instead.

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. 5d ago First seen · 6 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6bda2e441a35

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository GanyuanRan/Aegis (1,167 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 53 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.