brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 148 tokens per session (1,048 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for generating and comparing ideas before choosing how to solve a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning features or projects, exploring alternatives, discussing trade-offs, and thinking through problems with more than one valid solution.
Why use it?
It helps clarify a vague idea, identify who benefits, consider constraints, and weigh different approaches before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the playbook plugin — 48 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

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/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 4 hooks.

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agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,048 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 5.1 $0.00148 $0.01048
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00105

Measured 6d ago against content hash be33736b12c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorming 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 6d 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 · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Step 1: Assess Trigger Conditions

Check whether this skill applies. Proceed if any of the following are true:

  • The user has a vague idea to flesh out.
  • The user is planning a new feature or project.
  • The user is working through a problem with multiple valid approaches.
  • The user said "help me think through", "brainstorm", "explore this idea", "design", or "figure out how to".
  • Implementation has not yet started.

If none apply, do not activate this skill.

Step 2: Gather Project Context

  1. Identify the current project from $CWD or conversation context.
  2. Determine what already exists: relevant files, modules, patterns, constraints.
  3. If the project context is unclear, ask one targeted question to establish it before proceeding.

Step 3: Clarify the Idea (One Question at a Time)

Ask clarifying questions sequentially — never more than one at a time. Use the following priority order, stopping when the answer is clear:

  1. What problem does this solve?
  2. Who benefits from this?
  3. What constraints exist (time, tech stack, compatibility)?
  4. What has already been tried?

If the user's framing contains a questionable assumption, surface it explicitly: "This assumes X — is that correct?" Wait for confirmation before proceeding.

If multiple valid interpretations of the request exist, present them as numbered another-projectns and ask the user to select one. Do not pick silently.

Step 4: Propose 2–3 Alternative Approaches

Do not validate the first idea uncritically. Generate 2–3 distinct approaches and present each using this format:

Option A: [Name]
- Approach: [How it works]
- Pros: [Benefits]
- Cons: [Drawbacks]
- Best when: [Ideal use case]

For each another-projectn, identify at least one risk or failure mode ("What could go wrong?").

Actively challenge scope: if any proposed feature is speculative or not clearly needed, flag it and recommend removal.

Step 5: Confirm Direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 6d ago First seen · 130 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A be33736b12c3

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 1,048 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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