adev:brainstorm

An interactive planning guide that turns a proposed feature or module into a Feature Charter. The charter defines what the work should do and where its boundaries are, without describing the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when proposing a new capability, feature, module, cross-cutting change, or initiative, including when starting from a blueprint.
Why use it?
It helps clarify an idea before development begins and checks it against the project's constitution and existing charters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentic-development/adev-plugin/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add agentic-development/adev-plugin --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentic-development/adev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,682 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 $0.00062 $0.08682
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.04341
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01736
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00868

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb0668b28f94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adev: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.

providers/codex/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 654 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 654 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm a Feature Charter

Turn a feature idea into a structured Feature Charter through collaborative dialogue. The charter defines WHAT a module does and its boundaries, grounded in the project constitution and existing specs. It does not define HOW the module is built (that is the job of Live Specs and implementation plans).

Arguments

  • No arguments: freeform brainstorm (user describes the idea conversationally)
  • --module <name>: scope brainstorm to an existing module (extends or revises its charter)
  • --from-blueprint <path>: seed brainstorm from a blueprint file (skips early clarification, jumps to approach selection)
  • --no-bootstrap: suppress product.md bootstrap even on first-charter scenarios (charter is written without product.md modifications)
  • --kind <kind>: one of CHARTER_KINDS (module, feature, cross-cutting, initiative). If omitted, the skill presents the ask-first menu in Step 2 (Clarify). Strict-on-write: missing or invalid values trigger a re-prompt — there is no silent defaulting on write. Read-time defaulting (feature) applies only to legacy charters that pre-date this taxonomy.

Prerequisites

This skill requires .context-index/ to exist. If it does not, tell the user:

This project has not been initialized with the Agentic Development Framework. Run /adev:init first to set up the context index, then come back to brainstorm.

Do not proceed without a constitution.

Workspace Root Handling

Before starting Step 1, detect whether the skill is being invoked at a workspace root (a directory that contains a workspace.yaml or .workspace/ configuration but is not itself one of the registered repos):

Read the full file on GitHub · 654 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 654 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A eb0668b28f94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adev:brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentic-development/adev-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 8,682 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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