crazy-8s

crazy-8s is a skill for Claude Code from bacchus-labs/wrangler. It costs 107 tokens per session (3,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fast solo idea-generation exercise based on Google Design Sprint’s Crazy 8s method. It produces eight different solution ideas in eight minutes, optionally with rough sketches or HTML and CSS prototypes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before choosing a design or product direction to generate alternatives, compare them, and make rough visual prototypes.
Why use it?
It helps break away from the first obvious idea when you need several possible directions quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the wrangler plugin — 25 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before choosing a design or product direction to generate alternatives, compare them, and make rough visual prototypes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bacchus-labs/wrangler/crazy-8s
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 bacchus-labs/wrangler --skill crazy-8s
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bacchus-labs/wrangler

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wrangler, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,476 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 $0.00107 $0.03476
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01738
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00348

Measured 9d ago against content hash d0f5d98c7a61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crazy-8s 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.

.wrangler/memory/knowledge-base/reference-prompts/skills/crazy-8s/SKILL.md · 465 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 465 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crazy 8's (Solo Version)

Rapid ideation method that pushes you to generate 8 distinct solution ideas in 8 minutes. Based on Google Design Sprint's Crazy 8's exercise, adapted for solo work with AI assistance.

What This Skill Does

  • Facilitates solo rapid ideation sessions with 8-minute timer
  • Offers optional creativity warm-up with provocative questions
  • Supports two modes: rapid-fire ideation or sketch documentation
  • Generates HTML/CSS prototypes for quick visualization
  • Creates comparison table for decision-making
  • Pushes beyond first obvious ideas through speed and constraints

What This Skill Does NOT Do

  • Facilitate team Crazy 8's (traditional physical method works better for teams)
  • Make decisions about which ideas are best (you decide)
  • Create high-fidelity designs (these are rough prototypes)
  • Guarantee all 8 ideas are good (quantity over quality is the goal)

Core Principle

Speed kills the inner critic. You don't have time to overthink. The goal is divergent thinking - weird, impractical, and bold ideas often spark the truly innovative ones. Not all 8 ideas will be winners, and that's perfect.

Workflow Decision Tree

Start: "I want to do a Crazy 8's session"

Step 1: Claude asks about the design challenge → You describe the problem and context

Step 2: Claude asks: "Want a quick creativity warm-up? (adds ~2 minutes)" → Yes: Claude asks 2-3 provocative questions to spark ideas → No: Skip directly to mode selection

Step 3: Claude asks: "Which mode?" → Rapid Ideation: You rapid-fire ideas, Claude generates prototypes → Sketch Documentation: You sketch on paper, then share photos

Step 4: Claude asks: "What are you designing?" → Mobile app, web app, dashboard, feature, etc.

Step 5: Claude asks: "Want creative constraints for more variety?" → Optional constraints based on Google methodology

Step 6: Claude creates timer artifact and session begins

Creativity Warm-Up (Optional)

If you choose the warm-up, Claude asks 2-3 fast questions (30 seconds each) to activate divergent thinking. These are provocative, brain-stretching questions selected from references/icebreaker-questions.md based on your problem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 465 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. 9d ago First seen · 465 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A d0f5d98c7a61

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crazy-8s is a skill published in the GitHub repository bacchus-labs/wrangler (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 3,476 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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