brainstorming

A planning skill that clarifies a change’s purpose, requirements, and design before implementation. It is intended for creative work such as new features or behavior changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying how an existing system behaves.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing from an incomplete first idea. The resulting requirements give implementation a clear target.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the superpowers plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook 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/bearlike/assistant/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add bearlike/Assistant --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bearlike/Assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 87 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 $0.00033 $0.00087
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00044
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00009

Measured 3d ago against content hash 736b3a10da54, 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 3d 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.

demo/plugins/cache/claude-plugins-official/superpowers/6.2.0/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Brainstorming

Ask what the change is for before deciding how to build it. Establish the intent, the requirements it has to satisfy, and the design that follows from them, then implement against that design rather than against the first idea.

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. 3d ago First seen · 11 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 736b3a10da54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository bearlike/Assistant (41 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 87 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.