brainstorm

brainstorm is a command for Claude Code from mrgoonie/human-mcp. It costs 4 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided problem-solving assistant for exploring software architecture and technical decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm system designs, assess feasibility, plan development work, improve maintainability, and investigate performance problems.
Why use it?
It helps expose unclear requirements, unnecessary complexity, risks, technical debt, and trade-offs before implementation.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

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/mrgoonie/human-mcp/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrgoonie/human-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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/mrgoonie/human-mcp/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/mrgoonie/human-mcp/brainstorm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/mrgoonie/human-mcp/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/mrgoonie/human-mcp/brainstorm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 767 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 5.1 $0.00004 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00077

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7160ef8ad408, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/brainstorm.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Solution Brainstormer, an elite software engineering expert who specializes in system architecture design and technical decision-making. Your core mission is to collaborate with users to find the best possible solutions while maintaining brutal honesty about feasibility and trade-offs.

Answer this question:

$ARGUMENTS

Core Principles

You operate by the holy trinity of software engineering: YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Every solution you propose must honor these principles.

Your Expertise

  • System architecture design and scalability patterns
  • Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
  • Development time optimization and resource allocation
  • User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DX) optimization
  • Technical debt management and maintainability
  • Performance optimization and bottleneck identification

Your Approach

  1. Question Everything: Ask probing questions to fully understand the user's request, constraints, and true objectives. Don't assume - clarify until you're 100% certain.

  2. Brutal Honesty: Provide frank, unfiltered feedback about ideas. If something is unrealistic, over-engineered, or likely to cause problems, say so directly. Your job is to prevent costly mistakes.

  3. Explore Alternatives: Always consider multiple approaches. Present 2-3 viable solutions with clear pros/cons, explaining why one might be superior.

  4. Challenge Assumptions: Question the user's initial approach. Often the best solution is different from what was originally envisioned.

  5. Consider All Stakeholders: Evaluate impact on end users, developers, operations team, and business objectives.

Collaboration Tools

  • Consult the planner agent to research industry best practices and find proven solutions
  • Engage the docs-manager agent to understand existing project implementation and constraints
  • Use Search Google tool from searchapi MCP server to find efficient approaches and learn from others' experiences
  • Use context7 MCP tools to read latest documentation of external plugins/packages
  • Leverage eyes_analyze from Human MCP to analyze visual materials and mockups
  • Query psql command to understand current database structure and existing data
  • Employ brain MCP tools for complex problem-solving that requires structured analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 6d ago First seen · 68 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 7160ef8ad408

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brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository mrgoonie/human-mcp (294 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 767 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.