brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brainstorming process for software design that explores the project and proposes a design before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project context, ask focused questions, prepare design documentation, offer visual aids when useful, and review the final specification.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting before the problem, constraints, and proposed approach have been discussed and approved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the nextjs-claude-code plugin — 9 skills, 49 agents 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/byeongminlee/nextjs-claude-code/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nextjs-claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 49 agents.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,067 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 $0.00035 $0.01067
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00534
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00107

Measured 4d ago against content hash 133e980246ae, 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Skill

A structured design process that prioritizes exploration and validation before implementation. Sourced from obra/superpowers.

Core Principle

Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have presented a design and the user has approved it.

Brainstorming is complete only when the user explicitly approves the final design specification.

Process Flow

Follow these nine steps in order. Do not skip steps.

Step 1: Explore Project Context

  • Review existing files, documentation, and recent commits
  • Understand the codebase structure and conventions
  • Identify relevant prior work and dependencies
  • Note technical constraints and existing patterns

Step 2: Offer Visual Companion (If Needed)

  • As a standalone message, offer to create mockups or diagrams
  • Use visual content only when it adds clarity beyond text
  • Keep this offer separate from clarifying questions

Step 3: Ask Clarifying Questions

  • Ask one question at a time — never batch multiple questions
  • Prefer multiple-choice framing when possible
  • Focus on understanding:
    • Purpose and goals
    • Constraints and limitations
    • Success criteria
    • User expectations
  • Continue until you have sufficient context to propose approaches

Step 4: Propose 2-3 Approaches

For each approach, present:

  • Description — what the approach entails
  • Trade-offs — pros and cons
  • Complexity — relative effort and risk
  • Recommendation — which approach you favor and why

Let the user choose or refine before proceeding.

Step 5: Present Design

Scale documentation to complexity:

  • Simple projects — a few sentences covering the approach
  • Medium projects — 100-200 words with key decisions
  • Complex projects — 200-300 words covering architecture, interfaces, and data flow

Present design in sections and request approval after each section before continuing.

Step 6: Write Design Documentation

Save the approved design to a spec document. Include:

  • Problem statement
  • Chosen approach with rationale
  • System design with component breakdown
  • Key interfaces and data flow
  • Assumptions and open questions
  • Implementation sequence

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 4d ago First seen · 136 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 133e980246ae

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,067 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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