idea-genie

idea-genie is a skill for Claude Code from boshu2/agentops. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for exploring product ideas with evidence or challenging an important proposal through independent viewpoints. It helps frame opportunities and compare arguments without carrying out the chosen work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking what to build, requesting supported opportunities, challenging an idea, or comparing proposals; it produces structured idea portfolios or challenges.
Why use it?
It makes assumptions, constraints, sources, alternatives, and risks visible before committing to a consequential idea.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the agentops plugin — 55 skills, 2 agents, 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/boshu2/agentops/idea-genie
Any agent
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill idea-genie
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,195 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01195
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00120

Measured 6d ago against content hash 656a284fbb69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-genie 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 6d 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.

images/gemini/skills/idea-genie/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Genie

One canonical root for idea work: elicit an evidence-grounded opportunity portfolio, or challenge a consequential idea with sealed independent perspectives. Both modes explore and advise; neither selects, schedules, tracks, implements, or validates work.

Modes

Trigger phrases Mode Output contract
"idea genie", "what should we build", "supported opportunities" elicit (single genie) idea-portfolio.v1 via scripts/validate-output.sh
"challenge this idea", "compare independent proposals", "stress-test a one-way door" duel (adversarial challenge) idea-challenge.v1 via scripts/validate-challenge.sh

Elicitation is the entry mode. Dueling is an optional escalation for a consequential choice, typically consuming an idea-portfolio.v1 or a framed question.

Elicit mode

Generate a small portfolio of evidenced options.

  1. State the question, constraints, non-goals, and sources. Hydrate only the sources this question needs and cite them; no merged context store.
  2. Separate cited observations from assumptions.
  3. Give each candidate its supporting evidence, overlap with existing capabilities, and one normal or edge scenario.
  4. Run a novelty pass, merge equivalents, and discard unsupported ideas.
  5. Stop when no materially new evidenced candidate appears.
  6. Write and validate idea-portfolio.v1, then return it to the caller or Plan.

An empty no-new-work portfolio is valid. Plan alone may incorporate a selected option into the existing bead or caller intent.

Duel mode

Produce independent challenges for a consequential choice. The result is advisory evidence for Plan. It never decides whether a plan is ready and never turns a later optional Premortem challenge into an approval gate.

Constraints

  • Keep generation sealed until every perspective is complete to prevent later proposals from anchoring on earlier ones.
  • Preserve dissent and concrete refutation attempts because Plan must see alternatives that synthesis might otherwise erase.
  • Keep reversible choices lightweight because they do not warrant a pane manager, messaging service, council, or model-family rule.
  • Emit no readiness, approval, quorum, retry, budget, helper, delivery, or tracker state because this strategy supplies evidence rather than lifecycle authority.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 6d ago First seen · 125 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 656a284fbb69

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idea-genie is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshu2/agentops (433 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,195 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.

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