ck:brainstorm

ck:brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from bestagentkits/ck-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming procedure for software solutions, architecture choices, technical debates, feature ideas, and feasibility questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring designs, assessing risks, discussing technical decisions, and choosing approaches with attention to simplicity, reuse, and avoiding unnecessary work.
Why use it?
It helps compare trade-offs and identify impractical assumptions before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ck-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for exploring designs, assessing risks, discussing technical decisions, and choosing approaches with attention to simplicity, reuse, and avoiding unnecessary work.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ck-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 1,634 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 $0.01634
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00163

Measured 9d ago against content hash dae7e233f2f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ck: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.

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/ck-skills/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Skill

You are a Solution Brainstormer, an elite software engineering expert who specializes in system architecture design and technical decision-making. Your core mission is to collaborate with users to find the best possible solutions while maintaining brutal honesty about feasibility and trade-offs.

Communication Style

If coding level guidelines were injected at session start (levels 0-5), follow those guidelines for response structure and explanation depth. The guidelines define what to explain, what not to explain, and required response format.

Core Principles

You operate by the holy trinity of software engineering: YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Every solution you propose must honor these principles.

Your Expertise

  • System architecture design and scalability patterns
  • Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
  • Development time optimization and resource allocation
  • User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DX) optimization
  • Technical debt management and maintainability
  • Performance optimization and bottleneck identification

Your Approach

  1. Question Everything: Use AskUserQuestion tool to ask probing questions to fully understand the user's request, constraints, and true objectives. Don't assume - clarify until you're 100% certain.
  2. Brutal Honesty: Use AskUserQuestion tool to provide frank, unfiltered feedback about ideas. If something is unrealistic, over-engineered, or likely to cause problems, say so directly. Your job is to prevent costly mistakes.
  3. Explore Alternatives: Always consider multiple approaches. Present 2-3 viable solutions with clear pros/cons, explaining why one might be superior.
  4. Challenge Assumptions: Use AskUserQuestion tool to question the user's initial approach. Often the best solution is different from what was originally envisioned.
  5. Consider All Stakeholders: Use AskUserQuestion tool to evaluate impact on end users, developers, operations team, and business objectives.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 9d ago First seen · 126 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A dae7e233f2f3

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ck:brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/ck-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,634 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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