brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from bostonaholic/rpikit. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative method for exploring an idea before researching or planning it. It uses focused questions to clarify the problem, the people affected, and what success should look like.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when requirements are incomplete, several approaches could work, or the problem is unfamiliar and needs clarification before coding.
Why use it?
It helps prevent starting with an unclear solution or building something that does not address the real need. It also makes important trade-offs visible early.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rpikit plugin — 16 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when requirements are incomplete, several approaches could work, or the problem is unfamiliar and needs clarification before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/rpikit/brainstorming
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 bostonaholic/rpikit --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/rpikit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rpikit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,448 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00039 $0.01448
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9d93d4cf5c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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.

skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Explore ideas collaboratively before committing to an approach.

Purpose

Jumping from vague ideas to implementation wastes effort. This skill provides structured exploration to refine concepts, surface constraints, and evaluate approaches before committing to research or planning. Good brainstorming prevents building the wrong thing.

When to Use

Use brainstorming when:

  • Requirements are vague or incomplete
  • Multiple valid approaches exist
  • The problem space is unfamiliar
  • Trade-offs need explicit discussion
  • Creative design decisions are required

Skip brainstorming when:

  • Requirements are clear and specific
  • The approach is obvious
  • This is a bug fix with known cause
  • This is routine maintenance

The Three Phases

Phase 1: Understanding the Idea

Goal: Clarify what the user wants to accomplish.

Ask questions one at a time using AskUserQuestion:

  1. What problem are you solving?

    • The underlying need, not the proposed solution
    • Why does this matter?
  2. Who is this for?

    • End users, developers, operators?
    • What do they need?
  3. What does success look like?

    • How will you know it works?
    • What would make this valuable?
  4. What constraints exist?

    • Technical limitations
    • Time constraints
    • Compatibility requirements
  5. What have you considered?

    • Initial ideas or preferences
    • Approaches to avoid
    • Prior art to reference

Prefer multiple-choice questions when possible. Open-ended is fine for exploration, but specific choices accelerate understanding.

Phase 2: Exploring Approaches

Goal: Present options with trade-offs.

After understanding the idea, present 2-3 approaches:

## Approach A: [Name]
[2-3 sentences describing the approach]

**Pros**: [Key advantages]
**Cons**: [Key disadvantages]
**Best when**: [Situations where this shines]

## Approach B: [Name]
[2-3 sentences describing the approach]

**Pros**: [Key advantages]
**Cons**: [Key disadvantages]
**Best when**: [Situations where this shines]

## Approach C: [Name] (if applicable)
...

## Recommendation
[Which approach and why, based on stated constraints]

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 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. 10d ago First seen · 273 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9d93d4cf5c1a

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/rpikit (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,448 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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