journey-idea

journey-idea is a skill for Claude Code from butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided first step for turning a rough product idea into a written brief. It asks one concrete question at a time about users, first actions, and essential needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining the first user, the problem to solve, required features, and relevant Butterbase capabilities.
Why use it?
It helps replace a vague idea with recorded decisions that can survive interruptions and guide later planning.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the butterbase-skills plugin — 23 skills, 33 commands shipped together

Good fit It is for defining the first user, the problem to solve, required features, and relevant Butterbase capabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills/journey-idea
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 butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills --skill journey-idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install butterbase-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 33 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,312 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 $0.00092 $0.01312
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00131

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4e6c49eadd8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journey-idea 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 12d 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/journey-idea/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journey: Idea brainstorm

Stage 1 of the guided journey. Turn a vague idea into a written brief with capability tags.

When to use

  • Dispatched by journey when current_stage: idea.
  • Directly via /butterbase-skills:idea.

Inputs

None required. Optionally reads any existing 01-idea.md to resume.

Procedure — questioning discipline

Follow the cross-cutting rules from the spec:

  • One question at a time. Never batch.
  • Multiple-choice preferred, with 2–4 concrete options.
  • Concrete, not abstract.
  • Recommend when a Butterbase primitive is obvious.
  • Tag inline. When a feature surfaces, append the capability tag immediately (→ manage_schema, → deploy_function, → manage_storage, → manage_oauth, → manage_rag_content, → manage_realtime, → manage_durable_objects, → manage_ai, → create_agent).
  • Write as you go. After each answered question, append the decision to 01-idea.md so progress survives a crash.

Walk through these questions in order. Do not skip — but adapt the wording.

  1. "In one sentence, what is the painful thing your user does today that this replaces?"
  2. "Who is the first user? ① solo creator ② small team ③ end customers of a business ④ Other"
  3. "What is the first action they take in the app?"
  4. "If we could ship only ONE screen, which one?"
  5. "Do two different users see different data when they log in? (yes → user-scoped data → manage_rls; no → shared → simpler)"
  6. "Are there files/images involved? (yes → manage_storage; no → skip)"
  7. "Does anything happen on a schedule or in response to an external event? (yes → deploy_function cron/webhook; no → skip)"
  8. "Is there a knowledge base / search-over-documents feature? (yes → manage_rag_content; no → skip)"
  9. "Does the UI need live updates or presence? (yes → manage_realtime; no → skip)"
  10. "Any chat rooms / multiplayer / per-user-actor state? (yes → manage_durable_objects; no → skip)"
  11. "Any LLM features (chat, embeddings, summarisation)? (yes → manage_ai; no → skip)"
  12. "Any multi-step LLM+tool workflows the user triggers (e.g. 'summarise my orders', 'auto-tag a doc', 'research and reply')? (yes → create_agent; no → skip)". If yes, also ask: "Will the agent need external MCP servers (e.g. GitHub, Slack, custom MCP)?" and "Visibility: ① only the developer ② any logged-in user ③ unauthenticated public — note: public + write tools requires explicit safety acknowledgement."
  13. "Are you planning to publish this app as a public template others can clone? (yes / unlisted-public / no)". Set publish_as_template: <yes|unlisted|no> in 00-state.md front-matter. Public templates require a README with clone instructions and butterbase repo push to sync the source tree — flag this so plan and the publish stage know to plan for it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 4e6c49eadd8a

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journey-idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills (533 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,312 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 2026-08-30.

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