project-brainstorming

project-brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 30 tokens per session (3,502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided questioning process for turning an unclear software idea into a validated project brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project with uncertain requirements, exploring feasibility, recording decisions, or comparing several approaches.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the real problem, compare possible approaches, and clarify the project's scope before detailed specifications are written.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the attune plugin — 14 skills, 11 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a project with uncertain requirements, exploring feasibility, recording decisions, or comparing several approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/project-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 athola/claude-night-market --skill project-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install attune, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 11 commands, 2 agents.

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 project-brainstorming

README.md
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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 project-brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,502 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: 2 findings, 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 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 428
    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 $0.00030 $0.03502
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01751
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00700
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00350

Measured 8d ago against content hash c279a1ed9d1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 8d 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.

plugins/attune/skills/project-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 477 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 477 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When To Use

  • Starting a new project without clear requirements
  • Exploring problem space before specification
  • Need to compare multiple approaches systematically
  • Validating project feasibility and scope
  • Documenting decision rationale for stakeholders
  • Need to clarify the core problem being solved

When NOT To Use

  • Requirements and specification already exist (use Skill(attune:project-planning) instead)
  • Refining existing specs (use Skill(attune:project-specification) instead)
  • Project scope is well-defined (jump to /attune:project-init)
  • Mid-project pivots (use Skill(attune:war-room) for strategic decisions)

Integration

With superpowers:

  • Delegates to Skill(superpowers:brainstorming) for Socratic method
  • Augments with project-specific patterns
  • Uses project brainstorm templates

Without superpowers:

  • Standalone questioning framework
  • Project-focused ideation patterns
  • Structured output templates

War Room Integration (REQUIRED):

  • After Phase 3 (Approach Generation), automatically invokes Skill(attune:war-room)
  • All brainstorming context passed to War Room for expert deliberation
  • War Room provides multi-LLM pressure testing and synthesis
  • Only bypassed for Type 2 decisions (RS ≤ 0.40) with explicit user confirmation

Brainstorming Framework

Phase 1: Problem Definition

Socratic Questions:

  1. What problem are you solving?
  2. Who experiences this problem?
  3. What makes this problem worth solving now?
  4. What happens if this problem isn't solved?
  5. What existing solutions have been tried?

Output: Problem statement in docs/project-brief.md

Template:

## Problem Statement

**Who**: [Target users/stakeholders]
**What**: [The problem they face]
**Where**: [Context where problem occurs]
**When**: [Frequency/timing of problem]
**Why**: [Impact of the problem]
**Current State**: [Existing solutions and limitations]

Verification: Run the command with --help flag to verify availability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 477 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. 8d ago First seen · 477 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c279a1ed9d1e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,502 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 2026-09-03.