brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from akapet00/dotclaude. It costs 40 tokens per session (204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided planning interview that asks focused questions about a proposed feature or design until the choices and dependencies are clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape a plan, compare recommended design choices, resolve dependencies step by step, and reach a shared understanding before building.
Why use it?
It helps uncover hidden assumptions and unresolved decisions before implementation, using the codebase and documentation when they can answer a question.

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/akapet00/dotclaude/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add akapet00/dotclaude --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akapet00/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for brainstorm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/brainstorm)
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 204 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 $0.00040 $0.00204
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash c8621061ff6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of the plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one.

Ask the questions one at a time, and wait for my answer before asking the next question.

For each question, provide your recommended answers that I can choose from. Also provide an option for me to provide my own answer if none of the recommendations are suitable. From the recommended answers, provide the one that you think is best, and explain why you think it's the best choice.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase or documentation, do so and use that information to inform your next question. Reference any relevant files, lines of code, or documentation in your questions.

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 · 14 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c8621061ff6c

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository akapet00/dotclaude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 204 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 2026-08-31.

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