idea-extractor

A command that turns rough notes or input into a clearly organised idea, using the codebase for context and optionally researching outside sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for extracting one idea, checking it against the existing project, optionally researching it, and preparing it for execution.
Why use it?
It removes the work of shaping an incomplete idea into something that can be reviewed and turned into a plan.

Command

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/kesteva/soloflow/idea-extractor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kesteva/soloflow
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 459 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 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash f88da8753f7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-extractor 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 2d 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/idea-extractor.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

/soloflow:idea-extractor

Phase 1 of the SoloFlow pipeline. Turns raw input into a structured idea file (with codebase grounding and optional external research) and offers to refine it into execution-ready plans.

This command is a preconfigured wrapper for /soloflow:planner. The unified planner is the canonical entry; this wrapper exists for users who want the focused single-idea flow without seeing the open prompt.

The user's input is: $ARGUMENTS


Step 1: Dispatch into the unified planner

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/commands/planner.md with the Read tool and execute its procedure end-to-end with $ARGUMENTS rebound to:

--mode=single-idea $ARGUMENTS

That is, prepend the literal token --mode=single-idea followed by a single space, then the original $ARGUMENTS. The planner's Step 0.5 (Mode resolution) detects the token, strips it, and routes directly into Phase 1a (single-idea extract). Phase 1a behaves identically to this command's historical surface: clarify if ambiguous, extract via the idea-extractor agent, optional research, human checkpoint, commit, then prompt to refine into tasks. On Refine now the planner falls through to Phase 2; on Not yet it stops with a deferred-commands hint.

Do NOT re-run any of the planner's earlier steps independently — treat the planner's instructions as a continuation of this run.


Notes

  • For multi-item capture, use /soloflow:braindump (also a thin wrapper).
  • For refining an existing IDEA, use /soloflow:planner IDEA-NNN directly — no need to go through this wrapper.
  • The unified /soloflow:planner (with no args) opens with a mode picker; it's the canonical entry when you're not sure which path you need.
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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A f88da8753f7a

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idea-extractor is a command published in the GitHub repository kesteva/soloflow (40 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 459 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.