brainstorming-ideas

brainstorming-ideas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexei-led/cc-thingz. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and discussion skill for exploring ideas and testing draft plans before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm features, design APIs or workflows, compare approaches, challenge assumptions, and resolve decisions that block development.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear terms, weak assumptions, and design problems before they become implementation work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to brainstorm features, design APIs or workflows, compare approaches, challenge assumptions, and resolve decisions that block development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexei-led/cc-thingz/brainstorming-ideas
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 alexei-led/cc-thingz --skill brainstorming-ideas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexei-led/cc-thingz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,175 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 33
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.01175
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00588
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00118

Measured 12d ago against content hash 39c9f7f8fa09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorming-ideas 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 12d 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.

src/skills/brainstorming-ideas/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas

Turn a vague idea or draft plan into a well-formed design before coding. Keep the session collaborative, question-driven, and small enough to change direction.

Core rules

  • Ask one question at a time.
  • Use an interactive question tool when available; do not emulate menus in plain text.
  • Inspect code before asking when code can answer.
  • Offer 2-3 options with trade-offs and mark one recommendation.
  • Always allow a free-text or Other answer when options may not fit.
  • Cut speculative features and keep implementation task breakdown out of scope.

Interactive questions

When a runtime question tool is available, use it for every choice point:

  • single-select for one path, approach, or confirmation
  • multi-select for multiple goals, risks, constraints, or audiences
  • free text for problem statements, plan details, or custom answers
  • options plus Other when you can suggest likely answers but need flexibility

Do not ask the user to type 1, 2, or 3 unless no interactive tool is available. If no tool exists, use concise labeled options and include Other.

Load domain context

Before design questions, look for relevant project docs:

  • CONTEXT.md
  • CONTEXT-MAP.md
  • docs/adr/
  • nearest */CONTEXT.md or */docs/adr/

Read them when present. Use those terms in questions and designs. If no docs exist, create them only with user approval and only when a real term or decision is resolved.

Understand the idea

If the user did not supply a topic or plan, ask what they want to explore. Then narrow one question at a time until you can state the problem in one sentence. Prefer questions about:

  • pain or trigger
  • user or actor
  • existing feature it builds on or replaces
  • explicit non-goals
  • strongest constraint

Grill or debate mode

Use only for a bounded plan, trade-off, or assumption. If none is clear, ask for one. Read references/grill-protocol.md and follow it.

Stay focused on design quality and assumptions, not implementation task breakdown. If the user asks for task sequencing, state that it is outside this skill's scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 12d ago First seen · 164 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 39c9f7f8fa09

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brainstorming-ideas is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexei-led/cc-thingz (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,175 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.