aid-brainstorm

aid-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from AndreVianna/aid-methodology. It costs 165 tokens per session (1,075 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming tool for exploring an unclear problem and producing a design seed: a short, usable starting point for a later design decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a new theme, compare ways to frame a problem, and capture candidate directions for the user to decide on later.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague problem into possible directions without prematurely choosing or building a solution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to explore a new theme, compare ways to frame a problem, and capture candidate directions for the user to decide on later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrevianna/aid-methodology/aid-brainstorm
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 AndreVianna/aid-methodology --skill aid-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndreVianna/aid-methodology

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,075 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 $0.00165 $0.01075
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00108

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3e181901c0ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aid-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 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.

.claude/skills/aid-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm (diverge then converge to a design seed, resolve nothing)

Bind VERB=brainstorm, ARTIFACT=`` (none) -- the design stage in the contract's vocabulary -- then follow the shared contract at .claude/aid/templates/design-lifecycle.md. This skill binds that contract and restates none of its rules. It serves the case /aid-research cannot: a problem not yet formed into a question. It has no create counterpart -- the seed it produces is the whole deliverable, and the user decides where it goes next.

  • Boundary vs /aid-research: that skill answers an already-formed, answerable technical question; this one explores a problem that has not yet become one. Unformed vs answerable is the distinction (FR-7).
  • Not a numbered pipeline phase; does not route to /aid-execute.

State machine: INTAKE -> DESIGN -> VERIFY (loop) -> PRESENT [user decides] -> DONE, as design-lifecycle.md § Skill shape defines it. Print the [State: NAME] -- {purpose} entry line on each state.


State: INTAKE

  1. Require a subject. Empty argument -> ask one bootstrapping question ("What problem or theme do you want to explore?") and wait. The subject may be fuzzy -- an unformed problem is exactly this skill's case, so INTAKE never refuses an argument for not being a question.
  2. Confirm the seed slug. Because artifact is empty, feature-002 §4's <token> = artifact rule does not apply: derive a kebab-case <slug> from the subject and confirm it with the user, then the seed is .aid/design/<slug>.md.
  3. Allocate through the Work Initiation Gate exactly as the contract's Allocation rule requires (.claude/skills/aid-design/SKILL.md INTAKE step 4 is the shape), with initiator: aid-brainstorm. phase is not driven. The work-NNN folder is where STATE.md and the review gate live, even though the seed is the deliverable.
  4. Classify complexity for the aid-architect dispatch (verifier tier >= producer).

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

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 · 93 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A 3e181901c0ee

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aid-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndreVianna/aid-methodology (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 1,075 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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