purpose

An idea-generation exercise for finding uses for something beyond its current purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore alternative applications, new customer groups, different contexts, and possible uses for waste or by-products.
Why use it?
It helps uncover other problems, audiences, markets, and situations that the same idea might address.

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/purpose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills
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 480 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 $0.00480
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00240
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 523c0b8e2450, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

purpose 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.

scamper/commands/purpose.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

PUT TO OTHER USES

Generate ideas by asking what else this could be used for beyond its current purpose.

Instructions

Consider alternative applications, different markets, new contexts, and unconventional uses. What problems could this solve that it wasn't designed for?

Output Format

Subject: [What we're exploring]


Current Purpose

Primary use: [What it's designed/used for now] Current market: [Who uses it now]


Alternative Uses

Different Problems to Solve

Current Problem Solved Different Problem How It Would Work
[problem A] [problem B] [adaptation needed]
[problem A] [problem C] [adaptation needed]
[problem A] [problem D] [adaptation needed]

Different Markets

Current Market New Market Appeal
[segment A] [segment B] [why they'd want it]
[segment A] [segment C] [why they'd want it]
[segment A] [segment D] [why they'd want it]

Different Contexts

Current Context New Context Application
[context A] [context B] [how to use]
[context A] [context C] [how to use]

Waste/Byproduct Uses

Waste/Byproduct Potential Value Who Wants It
[byproduct] [use] [market]

Modified for Other Uses

As-Is Limitation With Modification New Use
[limitation] [change] [use]

Prompting Questions

  • Who else could use this?
  • What other problem does this solve?
  • What market doesn't know they need this?
  • Could children use this? Seniors? Businesses?
  • What if we positioned this completely differently?
  • What by-products or waste can be useful?

Top Alternative Use Ideas

  1. [Best idea]
  2. [Second idea]
  3. [Third idea]

$ARGUMENTS

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 · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 523c0b8e2450

Subscribe to this mod's changes

purpose is a command published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 480 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 2026-08-30.