brainstorm

A guided session for exploring a software feature or problem before planning its implementation. It examines requirements, constraints, the existing codebase, and possible approaches, then produces a design document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a feature idea, compare implementation options, record decisions, and prepare work for later task planning.
Why use it?
It helps clarify what should be built and why before coding begins. This reduces uncertainty around requirements and important design decisions.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jpm1118/threadwork/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JPM1118/Threadwork
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 253 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 $0.00000 $0.00253
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00127
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured yesterday against content hash 3ee96d9a3332, 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.

commands/brainstorm.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

/brainstorm - Explore a Problem Space

Start a brainstorming session to explore a feature or problem before implementation planning.

Usage

/brainstorm

What This Command Does

This command invokes the brainstorming skill to guide you through:

  1. Understanding requirements and constraints
  2. Exploring the existing codebase
  3. Evaluating implementation approaches
  4. Making key design decisions
  5. Producing a design document

Prerequisites

  • Threadwork should be initialized (.threadwork.yaml exists)
  • You have a feature idea or problem to explore

Execution

Invoke the brainstorming skill:

skill: brainstorming

The skill will interactively guide you through the brainstorming process and produce a design document at docs/designs/YYYY-MM-DD-{feature-slug}-design.md.

Output

  • Design document saved to docs/designs/
  • Clear problem definition and constraints
  • Documented design decisions with rationale
  • Ready for beads-backed-planning skill

Next Steps

After brainstorming is complete:

  1. Use worktree-setup to create a feature branch
  2. Use beads-backed-planning to break the design into tasks
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 · 49 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3ee96d9a3332

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository JPM1118/Threadwork (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 253 tokens. 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.