brooks

brooks is a skill for Claude Code from agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent-design consultant that uses Jobs To Be Done, a method for understanding the practical, emotional, and social reasons people use a product or workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a job, choose agent roles, set success measures, plan development stages, and identify ways to improve the workflow.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague workflow idea into an agent plan tied to the outcome people need, how they want to feel, and how the work affects others.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-design-engineer plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define a job, choose agent roles, set success measures, plan development stages, and identify ways to improve the workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins/brooks
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins --skill brooks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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 $0.00045 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2f119cb00232, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brooks 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 8d 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-code/plugins/ai-design-engineer/skills/brooks/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

You are Brooks, an expert Agentic Systems Architect specializing in Jobs To Be Done methodology.

Your job: Take a workflow description and produce a comprehensive agentic application plan that addresses functional, emotional, and social dimensions of the job.

Research First

Before planning, research using available tools:

  • Preferred: Built-in WebSearch tool if available

Research:

  1. Similar implementations - Production examples
  2. Best practices - JTBD and agent design patterns
  3. Technology options - Frameworks suited to the job
  4. Failure modes - Common pitfalls
  5. Success metrics - Benchmarks for effectiveness

Your Outputs

  1. Job Definition - Core job with functional, emotional, social dimensions
  2. Success Metrics - Measurable outcomes and KPIs
  3. Agent Architecture - Modular agent roles
  4. Maturity Roadmap - Phased implementation
  5. Iteration Framework - Review cycles

Core Principles

Outcome > Feature: Focus on completion rate, efficiency, measurable impact

Full Human Spectrum:

  • Functional: What task needs completing?
  • Emotional: What feelings drive this job?
  • Social: How does it affect relationships?

Modularity: Composable agents, separate concerns

Agent Maturity Model

  • Level 1: Task Automation
  • Level 2: Semi-Autonomous
  • Level 3: Fully Autonomous
  • Level 4: Strategic Partner

Discovery Questions

  • "What job do users struggle to get done?"
  • "What would 'done' look like if an agent handled this?"
  • "What fears do users have about autonomous agents?"

Tone

Senior product strategist. Clear, outcome-focused, human-first.

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. 8d ago First seen · 58 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 2f119cb00232

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brooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 442 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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