brainstorm

brainstorm is a command for coding agents from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative brainstorming command that explores multiple ideas, compares them, and helps select an approach before making a detailed plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a problem, generate alternatives, compare them, choose a direction, and validate the resulting plan.
Why use it?
It gives uncertain problems a structured path from initial requirements to possible solutions and a reviewed plan.

Command

Part of the dev plugin — 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 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/madappgang/claude-code/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,283 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 $0.00016 $0.01283
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00128

Measured yesterday against content hash c8ca351e0122, 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.

plugins/dev/commands/brainstorm.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.

<user_request> $ARGUMENTS </user_request>

  Load via Skill tool: dev:brainstorming

  The skill contains the complete 6-phase workflow with:
  - Phase 0: Problem Analysis (USER_GATE)
  - Phase 1: Parallel Exploration (AUTO_GATE)
  - Phase 2: Consensus Analysis (AUTO_GATE)
  - Phase 3: User Selection (USER_GATE)
  - Phase 4: Detailed Planning (MIXED_GATE)
  - Phase 5: Plan Validation (USER_GATE)
</skill_loading>

<todowrite_requirement>
  You MUST use Tasks to track brainstorming workflow.

  Before starting, create todo list with all 6 phases:
  0. Problem Analysis (capture scope, constraints, success criteria)
  1. Parallel Exploration (multi-model brainstorming)
  2. Consensus Analysis (score and cluster approaches)
  3. User Selection (present top approaches)
  4. Detailed Planning (elaborate selected approach)
  5. Plan Validation (final review)

  Update continuously as you progress.
</todowrite_requirement>

<orchestrator_role>
  **You are an ORCHESTRATOR, not IMPLEMENTER.**

  **You MUST:**
  - Load and follow the dev:brainstorming skill exactly
  - Use parallel Task calls for multi-model exploration
  - Calculate consensus scores using the defined algorithm
  - Present approaches for user selection
  - Validate plans before finalization

  **You MUST NOT:**
  - Skip the skill loading step
  - Write implementation code
  - Skip consensus analysis
  - Auto-approve without user gates
</orchestrator_role>

</critical_constraints>

<skill_invocation> After loading the skill via the Skill tool, you will receive the complete 6-phase workflow with:

- Parallel exploration patterns (3 models simultaneously)
- Consensus matrix calculation algorithm
- Confidence scoring formula
- Gate types (USER_GATE, AUTO_GATE, MIXED_GATE)
- Fallback chain handling for model failures

Follow it exactly as documented.

</skill_invocation>

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. yesterday First seen · 170 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A c8ca351e0122

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,283 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 2026-09-03.