brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AvinashP/AgentsAtlas. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for turning a rough software idea into a clear design through questions and discussion. It covers requirements, constraints, success measures, possible approaches, and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating features, building components, or adding functionality when the desired result still needs to be defined.
Why use it?
It helps uncover missing details before implementation begins, reducing rework caused by unclear goals or assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agents-atlas plugin — 24 skills 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/avinashp/agentsatlas/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add AvinashP/AgentsAtlas --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AvinashP/AgentsAtlas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agents-atlas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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README.md
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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 1,054 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 $0.00030 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 4d ago against content hash 358f19a68fe4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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 · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Turn rough ideas into fully formed designs through natural collaborative dialogue.

The Process

1. Understanding the Idea

Before proposing anything:

  • Check out the current project state (files, docs, recent commits)
  • Ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
  • Prefer multiple choice questions when possible
  • Focus on understanding: purpose, constraints, success criteria

One question at a time - Don't overwhelm with multiple questions. If a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple questions.

2. Exploring Approaches

Once you understand the problem:

  • Propose 2-3 different approaches with trade-offs
  • Lead with your recommended option and explain why
  • Present options conversationally

Example:

For caching, I see three approaches:

1. In-memory cache (recommended) - Simple, no dependencies,
   works well for your scale. Trade-off: lost on restart.

2. Redis - Shared across instances, persistent.
   Trade-off: Extra infrastructure.

3. File-based - Simple, persistent.
   Trade-off: Slower, file locking complexity.

I'd recommend #1 unless you need persistence or multi-instance.
What matters most to you?

3. Presenting the Design

Once you believe you understand what you're building:

  • Present the design in sections of 200-300 words
  • Ask after each section whether it looks right so far
  • Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
  • Be ready to go back and clarify if something doesn't make sense

Example section:

## Data Flow

When a user submits a form:
1. Frontend validates input, shows inline errors
2. POST to /api/submit with JSON body
3. Backend validates again (never trust client)
4. Store in database, return ID
5. Frontend shows success with link to view

Does this flow make sense, or should we handle any edge cases differently?

After the Design

Documentation:

  • Write the validated design to a design doc if appropriate
  • Include: goal, architecture, components, data flow, testing approach

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 4d ago First seen · 158 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 358f19a68fe4

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository AvinashP/AgentsAtlas (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,054 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 2026-08-31.

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