brainstorming

brainstorming is a cursor rule for Cursor from MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A questioning and communication process for clarifying complex requests before implementation. It also defines how to report progress and handle errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new feature, changing an existing system, or working from vague requirements.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing when the goal, users, or required scope are unclear.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it when planning a new feature, changing an existing system, or working from vague requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/brainstorming
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/brainstorming.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mn-lizard-team/aiyu-multi-agent/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,106 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01106
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00111

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6fc774c87fb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorming 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 4d 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.

.cursor/rules/skills/brainstorming.mdc · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: brainstorming

Cursor Agent-Requested Rule — applied when AI determines relevance.


Brainstorming & Communication Protocol

MANDATORY: Use for complex/vague requests, new features, updates.


🛑 SOCRATIC GATE (ENFORCEMENT)

When to Trigger

Pattern Action
"Build/Create/Make [thing]" without details 🛑 ASK 3 questions
Complex feature or architecture 🛑 Clarify before implementing
Update/change request 🛑 Confirm scope
Vague requirements 🛑 Ask purpose, users, constraints

🚫 MANDATORY: 3 Questions Before Implementation

  1. STOP - Do NOT start coding
  2. ASK - Minimum 3 questions:
    • 🎯 Purpose: What problem are you solving?
    • 👥 Users: Who will use this?
    • 📦 Scope: Must-have vs nice-to-have?
  3. WAIT - Get response before proceeding

🧠 Dynamic Question Generation

⛔ NEVER use static templates. Read dynamic-questioning.md for principles.

Core Principles

Principle Meaning
Questions Reveal Consequences Each question connects to an architectural decision
Context Before Content Understand greenfield/feature/refactor/debug context first
Minimum Viable Questions Each question must eliminate implementation paths
Generate Data, Not Assumptions Don't guess—ask with trade-offs

Question Generation Process

1. Parse request → Extract domain, features, scale indicators
2. Identify decision points → Blocking vs. deferable
3. Generate questions → Priority: P0 (blocking) > P1 (high-leverage) > P2 (nice-to-have)
4. Format with trade-offs → What, Why, Options, Default

Question Format (MANDATORY)

### [PRIORITY] **[DECISION POINT]**

**Question:** [Clear question]

**Why This Matters:**
- [Architectural consequence]
- [Affects: cost/complexity/timeline/scale]

**Options:**
| Option | Pros | Cons | Best For |
|--------|------|------|----------|
| A | [+] | [-] | [Use case] |

**If Not Specified:** [Default + rationale]

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 4d ago First seen · 167 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6fc774c87fb8

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brainstorming is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MN-Lizard-Team/aiyu-multi-agent (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,106 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 2026-09-03.