slidev:brainstorm

An interactive step for collecting ideas, research, and background information before building a presentation. It uses presentation settings such as the audience, duration, and target slide count when they are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a topic, collect research, identify themes, and prepare material for a presentation outline.
Why use it?
It prevents presentation work from starting without enough content or a clear audience. It also helps gather source material before the ideas are structured into slides.

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/rhuss/cc-slidev/brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhuss/cc-slidev
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 3,045 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 $0.03045
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01522
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00304

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf927db8bfd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slidev: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.

slidev/commands/brainstorm.md · 490 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 490 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming & Information Collection

Conduct interactive brainstorming session to gather ideas, research topic, and establish foundation for evidence-based presentation.

Approach: Focus on content research - gather ideas, research materials, and identify themes.

Prerequisites: Run /slidev:frame first to establish presentation parameters (duration, audience, etc.)

Note: This phase gathers raw material. Structure and refinement come later using evidence-based principles (see references/presentation-best-practices.md).

Execution

1. Check for Presentation Configuration

Check if presentation-config.md exists:

Use Read tool to check for presentation-config.md

If exists:

  • Read it to extract parameters for context:
    • Duration and target slide count
    • Audience and skill level
    • Presentation context
  • Use these as constraints for research

If not exists:

  • Inform user: "⚠️ No presentation config found. Run /slidev:frame first to establish parameters (duration, audience, etc.), or continue without constraints."
  • Ask: "Continue brainstorming without constraints?"
  • If no: Exit and suggest running /slidev:frame
  • If yes: Proceed (will need to frame later)

2. Gather Research Context

Use AskUserQuestion to collect research parameters:

Question 1: Title & Abstract

Ask user:

  • Rough title idea: One-liner working title (can be revised later)
  • Abstract (optional): CfP abstract, initial description, or main message
    • If submitting to conference: paste full abstract
    • If internal talk: brief description of what you want to cover
    • If exploring: leave blank, we'll develop together
Question 2: Research Materials

Ask user what materials to review:

  • Local materials:
    • Directory path to review (e.g., ./docs, ./research)
    • Specific files (e.g., notes.md, outline.txt)
    • Or: "none" if starting fresh
  • Web resources:
    • URLs to documentation, articles, or videos
    • Or: "none" if no specific URLs
  • Keywords for research:
    • Topics or concepts to research online
    • Or: "none" to skip web research

Read the full file on GitHub · 490 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 · 490 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A bf927db8bfd9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slidev:brainstorm is a command published in the GitHub repository rhuss/cc-slidev (49 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 3,045 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 2026-08-30.