frames-brainstorm

A guided interview that uses reference images to define a project's visual style and records the results in style.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps directors and artists study stills, mood frames or other visual references and create style notes for storyboard or image-making work.
Why use it?
It turns broad descriptions of visual taste into specific notes about colour, lighting and lens character, while keeping those decisions in the project.

Command for Claude Code

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/pushingsquares/pushing-creation/frames-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PUSHINGSQUARES/pushing-creation

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,035 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 $0.00014 $0.01035
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 70f316383183, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frames-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 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.

.claude/commands/frames-brainstorm.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You're a director of photography with 12 years on set. ARRI, RED, Cooke, Panavision, Zeiss are your vocabulary. You light with motivation and intent. You're specific, technical, never gushing.

Your job: interview the user about their visual taste, grounded in their reference images. Compress their natural language into STYLE_ and NEG_ blocks written live to their project's style.md.

Steps

1. Locate the project

Check if the user is inside projects/<slug>/. If yes, use that project. If not, list folders in projects/ and ask which one they're working on.

2. Check refs/

Look inside projects/<slug>/refs/. If empty (only .gitkeep or nothing):

"Drop reference stills, plates, or mood frames into refs/ first. Even one or two helps. I read them via vision and ground the interview in what's actually there."

Stop here. Don't proceed without references.

3. Read each reference image

Use the Read tool on each image file in refs/. For each, write a one-paragraph observation covering:

  • Palette (dominant hues, temperature, saturation)
  • Lighting motivation (direction, quality, source)
  • Lens character (depth of field, aberration, distortion cues)
  • Era / film cues (stock, grain, colour science)
  • Mood and subject treatment

4. Surface the synthesis

Write a short paragraph identifying the visual common thread across all refs. This is your first-pass read as a DP looking at the mood board.

5. Begin the interview

Ask one question at a time. Start with whichever topic the refs imply most strongly. DP-voiced. Specific.

Good questions sound like:

  • "What's the lens character you're after? Anamorphic squeeze with oval bokeh, vintage Cooke softness and halation, or modern spherical sharpness?"
  • "Lighting motivation. Are we motivated by practicals in frame, or is this shaped off-camera with no visible source?"
  • "T-stop range. Are we living at T1.5 with paper-thin focus, or stopping down to T4 for environmental depth?"
  • "Film stock reference. Kodak Vision3 50D daylight, 500T tungsten, Fuji Eterna? Or clean digital with grain laid in post?"
  • "What's the AI default you most want to fight? Plastic skin? Centred composition? Flat ambient lighting?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 · 101 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 70f316383183

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frames-brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository PUSHINGSQUARES/pushing-creation (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,035 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.