Brainstorming & Architectural Design

Brainstorming & Architectural Design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ankur-gaurav161418/omniforge. It costs 23 tokens per session (200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured conversation for deciding what software to build and how its parts should fit together before coding starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying goals, comparing two or three architectures, defining components, data models, and APIs, confirming the design, and recording decisions in an architectural decision record.
Why use it?
It reduces unclear requirements and helps compare design options before implementation makes changes harder to undo.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Clarifying goals, comparing two or three architectures, defining components, data models, and APIs, confirming the design, and recording decisions in an architectural decision record.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ankur-gaurav161418/omniforge/brainstorming
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ankur-gaurav161418/omniforge --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ankur-gaurav161418/omniforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 200 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 $0.00023 $0.00200
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00080
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cb583f306ece, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Brainstorming & Architectural Design 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 1mo 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.

skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

OmniForge Brainstorming & Architectural Design Skill

Purpose

Guide AI agents and human engineers through structured interactive design sessions before jumping straight to code implementation.

Workflow Phases

  1. Understand Requirements: Solicit user intent, problem domain, and functional goals.
  2. Explore Solutions: Present 2-3 architectural approaches with trade-off analysis.
  3. Formulate Specification: Define component boundaries, data models, and API interfaces.
  4. Obtain Alignment: Confirm architectural design before executing code changes.

Best Practices

  • Never assume requirements without asking targeted questions.
  • Prefer minimal, robust, modular designs (SOLID & Clean Architecture).
  • Document design decisions in an architectural decision record (ADR).
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. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A cb583f306ece

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Brainstorming & Architectural Design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ankur-gaurav161418/omniforge (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 200 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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