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 rules/sordi-ai/skill-everything/brainstorminggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sordi-ai/skill-everythingWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/sordi-ai/skill-everything/brainstorming)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/sordi-ai/skill-everything/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/sordi-ai/skill-everything/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00419 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00210 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00084 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00042 |
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Sub-Skill: Brainstorming
Purpose: Maximize the quality of the eventual solution by ensuring sufficient exploration of the solution space before converging on an approach.
Rules
Divergence First
- Generate before evaluating. Always complete a divergent generation phase before applying any evaluation criteria; premature judgment kills creative options.
- Produce at least three alternatives. Always generate at least three distinct alternatives before committing to an approach. Reference: ERR-2026-028
- Quantity over quality early. Prefer producing many rough ideas over polishing a single idea during the generation phase; refinement comes later.
- Loosen constraints deliberately. Before generating, explicitly list the constraints you are relaxing (time, cost, technology) to open the solution space.
Structured Exploration
- Timebox each phase. Always set explicit time limits for divergent and convergent phases to prevent open-ended exploration from blocking delivery.
- Use silent generation first. Before group discussion, have each participant (or reasoning thread) generate ideas independently to avoid anchoring bias.
- Apply devil's advocate. After generating options, explicitly argue against the leading option to surface hidden weaknesses before committing.
- Build on ideas, don't replace them. Prefer extending or combining existing ideas over discarding them; hybrid solutions often outperform pure alternatives.
Convergence
- Define decision criteria upfront. Before evaluating options, agree on the criteria (performance, cost, maintainability) and their relative weights.
- Categorize before ranking. Group ideas by theme or approach before ranking; ranking ungrouped lists misses structural patterns.
- Document rejected alternatives. Always record why alternatives were rejected so future contributors understand the decision context.
See also
skills/self-extension-workflow/SKILL.mdskills/error-log/SKILL.md
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 40 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e3f4eebcca31
brainstorming is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sordi-ai/skill-everything (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 419 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.
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retention-predictor
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