scamper

scamper is a command for coding agents from neurofoo/agent-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,260 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured creativity exercise based on seven prompts: substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, and reverse. It helps examine a product, service, process, or problem from different angles.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating and organizing multiple ideas for improving a product, service, process, or solution.
Why use it?
It prevents idea generation from stopping at the first obvious answer and provides a repeatable way to explore alternatives.

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/scamper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills

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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 1,260 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 $0.01260
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00126

Measured 3d ago against content hash b29893b85384, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scamper 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 3d 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/scamper.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.

SCAMPER Creative Exploration

Apply all seven SCAMPER prompts to systematically explore creative possibilities for a product, service, process, or problem.

Instructions

Work through each of the seven prompts, generating multiple ideas for each. Quantity matters—don't self-edit too early. Wild ideas often lead to practical innovations.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're SCAMPERing] Goal: [What we're trying to achieve]


S: SUBSTITUTE

What can be replaced with something else?

Component Substitute With New Possibility
[element] [replacement] [what it enables]
[element] [replacement] [what it enables]
[element] [replacement] [what it enables]

Questions to explore:

  • What materials could be substituted?
  • What other ingredients or components?
  • What other process could be used?
  • What if we substituted the place, time, or person?

C: COMBINE

What can be merged, blended, or bundled together?

Combine This With This Result
[element A] [element B] [new thing]
[element A] [element B] [new thing]
[element A] [element B] [new thing]

Questions to explore:

  • What ideas, features, or components can be combined?
  • What if we combined purposes or objectives?
  • What if we merged with another product/service?
  • What talents or resources could be combined?

A: ADAPT

What can be copied, borrowed, or modified from elsewhere?

Source Idea to Adapt How to Apply
[where it's from] [the concept] [application here]
[where it's from] [the concept] [application here]
[where it's from] [the concept] [application here]

Questions to explore:

  • What else is like this? What could I copy?
  • What ideas from other industries apply?
  • What from the past could be adapted?
  • What could we emulate?

M: MODIFY / MAGNIFY / MINIMIZE

What can be changed, enlarged, or reduced?

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. 3d ago First seen · 170 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b29893b85384

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scamper 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 1,260 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.