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.
npx agentmods add commands/phuryn/pm-brain/ideategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-brainWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00384 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00192 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00077 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
ideate 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.
What it actually says
/ideate
Generate solution directions for a problem, grounded in what the brain already knows. Not a brainstorm. A synthesis.
Input
A problem statement, an opportunity, or a knowledge/users/insights.md § <theme> reference. Example: /ideate onboarding drop-off in mid-market.
Loads
knowledge/strategy.md(priorities, non-goals, north-star)knowledge/users/insights.mdand any matchingpersonas.md/segments.md- Active
hypotheses/files in the same area - Recent
decisions/that constrain or invalidate options knowledge/market/competitors/andtrends.mdfor adjacent movesrules/discovery.mdandrules/prioritization.mdif present
Updates
Drafts only. Nothing committed at call time.
- A draft
ingestion/adhoc/<date>-ideate-<slug>.mdcapturing the session - Hypothesis candidates queued under
hypotheses/<slug>.md § Candidates(PM confirms before promotion)
Surfaces
- 3-7 solution directions, each tagged with the evidence supporting it (insight, hypothesis, decision, or market signal)
- For each direction: which strategy priority it serves, which non-goal it might violate, which active hypothesis it would test or contradict
- 1-2 directions explicitly marked as off-strategy if surfaced, so the operator can decide whether to pivot strategy or reject the direction
- The thinnest viable next step for the top 2 (a discovery question, an experiment, a competitor study)
Anti-pattern: do not generate directions that ignore the strategy doc or the non-goals. If the evidence forces an off-strategy direction, surface the tension instead of swallowing it.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 36ebca0c9a95
ideate is a command published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-brain (537 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 384 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
obsidian-ingest
Ingest a source into the vault - the vault rewrites itself around new knowledge. Every ingest updates entities, rewrites stale claims, synthesizes new concepts, and resolves contradictions.
obsidian-health
Run a vault health check - grouped by severity, detects contradictions, concept gaps, stale claims, and structural issues.
obsidian-projects
Live project status from git + local docs - infers all context from vault notes, no config required.
obsidian-retrieval-eval
Measure how well vault search finds the right note for a natural-language question - recall@k and MRR, with the concrete failures.
research
Web research with citations - Perplexity Sonar when an API key is set, free key-less sources (Wikipedia, HackerNews, arXiv, Reddit, and more) otherwise. Deep dossier with summary, facts, timeline, players, contrarian views, open questions.
obsidian-synthesize
Automatic synthesis - scans the vault for unnamed patterns and writes synthesis pages without being asked.