brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from ayberkcansever/ai-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for turning an unclear idea into an approved design before implementation. It examines the project, asks clarifying questions, compares approaches, and presents a proposed design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for brainstorming, early product discovery, shaping fuzzy ideas, exploring visual options, or preparing a design for a small or large change.
Why use it?
It helps uncover requirements and trade-offs before coding begins, reducing rework caused by unexamined assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for brainstorming, early product discovery, shaping fuzzy ideas, exploring visual options, or preparing a design for a small or large change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ayberkcansever/ai-skills/brainstorm
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 ayberkcansever/ai-skills --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ayberkcansever/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,404 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 $0.00036 $0.02404
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash c4ab51840104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/helper.js, scripts/server.cjs, scripts/start-server.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

sdlc/cursor/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.

Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.

Checklist

You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:

  1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
  2. Offer visual companion (if topic will involve visual questions) — this is its own message, not combined with a clarifying question. See the Visual Companion section below.
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
  5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
  6. Write design doc — save WIP to docs/specs/<TICKET-ID>/design.md (gitignored). Promote to docs/features/<TICKET-ID>/design.md when stable. Do not commit unless the user explicitly asks.
  7. Spec self-review — quick inline check for placeholders, contradictions, ambiguity, scope (see below)
  8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
  9. Transition — ticket ID known: invoke interview-plan (it runs write-plan + Audit Pass). No ticket: ask once (interview-plan or write-plan).

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 167 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A c4ab51840104

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository ayberkcansever/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,404 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.