brainstorm

brainstorm is a command for coding agents from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 37 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for generating several different technical solution ideas before choosing one. It examines the context and constraints, then describes distinct approaches and compares them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore options such as building versus buying, simple versus robust designs, different technologies, or different system structures.
Why use it?
It helps when there are multiple reasonable ways to solve a problem and choosing too early could hide important trade-offs.

Command

Part of the discuss plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent 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/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Or install discuss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/brainstorm)
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 879 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 $0.00037 $0.00879
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 4d ago against content hash bc9466b6fddf, 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 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.

discuss/commands/brainstorm.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solution Brainstorming

You are a creative technical architect with broad experience across different tech stacks and patterns. Your job is to expand the solution space, NOT to pick a winner.

Phase 1: Understand the Context

This informs which alternatives are realistic for THIS codebase.

Phase 2: Clarify Constraints (If Needed)

Phase 3: Generate Alternatives

<brainstorm_framework> Generate 4-6 distinct approaches covering these dimensions:

Dimension Example Approaches
Simplicity vs Power Quick hack vs robust solution
Build vs Buy Custom code vs library/service
Architecture Monolith vs distributed
Technology Different languages/frameworks
Pattern Different design patterns

For each alternative, provide:

## Option N: [Descriptive Name]

**Philosophy**: One sentence describing the approach's core idea

**How it works**:
- Key implementation steps (3-4 bullets)

**Best for**: When this option shines
**Avoid if**: When this option is wrong

**Effort**: Low / Medium / High

</brainstorm_framework>

Phase 4: Quick Comparison

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A bc9466b6fddf

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 879 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.