brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to turn a rough idea into a detailed design through questions, alternative approaches, and incremental checks. Socratic questioning means using focused questions to clarify goals and assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing an idea, designing a feature, clarifying vague requirements, or choosing between multiple technical approaches.
Why use it?
It helps uncover missing requirements and compare possible approaches before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it when developing an idea, designing a feature, clarifying vague requirements, or choosing between multiple technical approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/brainstorming
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 ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub

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 brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/brainstorming)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariegoldkin/ai-agent-hub/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,237 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 $0.00040 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00124

Measured 9d ago against content hash 40e9b9785ce3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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 · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Overview

Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration.

Core principle: Ask questions to understand, explore alternatives, present design incrementally for validation.

Announce skill usage at start of session.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when:

  • Request contains "I have an idea for..." or "I want to build..."
  • User asks "help me design..." or "what's the best approach for..."
  • Requirements are vague or high-level
  • Multiple approaches might work
  • Before writing any code or implementation plans

The Three-Phase Process

Phase Key Activities Tool Usage Output
1. Understanding Ask questions (one at a time) AskUserQuestion for choices Purpose, constraints, criteria
2. Exploration Propose 2-3 approaches AskUserQuestion for approach selection Architecture options with trade-offs
3. Design Presentation Present in 200-300 word sections Open-ended questions Complete design with validation

Phase 1: Understanding

Goal: Gather purpose, constraints, and success criteria.

Process:

  • Check current project state in working directory
  • Ask ONE question at a time to refine the idea
  • Use AskUserQuestion tool when presenting multiple choice options
  • Gather: Purpose, constraints, success criteria

Tool Usage: Use AskUserQuestion for clarifying questions with 2-4 clear options.

Example: "Where should the authentication data be stored?" with options for Session storage, Local storage, Cookies, each with trade-off descriptions.

See references/example-session-auth.md for complete Phase 1 example.

Phase 2: Exploration

Goal: Propose 2-3 different architectural approaches with explicit trade-offs.

Process:

  • Propose 2-3 different approaches
  • For each: Core architecture, trade-offs, complexity assessment
  • Use AskUserQuestion tool to present approaches as structured choices
  • Include trade-off comparison table when helpful

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 157 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 40e9b9785ce3

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArieGoldkin/ai-agent-hub (11 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,237 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 2026-08-30.

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