reverse

A brainstorming method that finds new ideas by flipping, reversing, or rearranging an existing sequence, role, direction, or approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rethink a process, reorder steps, swap responsibilities, reverse information flow, or consider the opposite solution.
Why use it?
It helps when the usual way of doing something produces predictable results or leaves few ideas to explore.

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/reverse
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 598 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 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7744948a32ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reverse 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/reverse.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

REVERSE / REARRANGE

Generate ideas by asking what can be flipped, reversed, reordered, or rearranged.

Instructions

Challenge the current sequence, direction, or arrangement. Consider opposites, inversions, and new orderings.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're exploring]


Current Arrangement

Current sequence/order/direction:

  1. [First thing]
  2. [Second thing]
  3. [Third thing]

Current roles:

  • [Who does what]

Current flow:

  • [Direction of process/information/value]

Reversal Ideas

Reverse the Sequence

Current Order Reversed Order Possibility
[A → B → C] [C → B → A] [what it enables]
[step 1 first] [step 1 last] [what it enables]

Reverse the Roles

Current Role Reversed Role Possibility
[X does Y] [Y does X] [what it enables]
[Provider → Consumer] [Consumer → Provider] [what it enables]

Reverse the Direction

Current Flow Reversed Flow Possibility
[direction A] [direction B] [what it enables]
[top-down] [bottom-up] [what it enables]

Opposite Approach

Current Approach Opposite Possibility
[approach] [opposite] [insight]
[approach] [opposite] [insight]

Rearrangement

Current Arrangement Rearranged Possibility
[layout] [new layout] [benefit]
[structure] [new structure] [benefit]

Inversion Questions

What if the customer did our job? [Self-service possibility]

What if we did what the customer does? [Full-service possibility]

What if we started at the end? [Working backward]

What if we did the opposite of industry standard? [Contrarian approach]

What if we inverted the business model? [e.g., pay-what-you-want, freemium, reverse auction]

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7744948a32ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reverse 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 598 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.