brainstorm-with-file

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/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/brainstorm-with-file

Any agent

npx skills add catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill brainstorm-with-file

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 10,160 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00028	$0.10160
Opus 5	$0.00014	$0.05080
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.02032
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.01016

Measured today against content hash 91b47d7b8ffe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm-with-file 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 today.

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.

.codex/skills/brainstorm-with-file/SKILL.md · 1,067 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,067 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Brainstorm-With-File Prompt

Overview

Interactive brainstorming workflow with documented thought evolution. Expands initial ideas through questioning, inline multi-perspective analysis, external research, and iterative refinement.

Core workflow: Seed Idea → Expand → Multi-Perspective Explore → Research → Refine → Crystallize → Next Step

Key features:

brainstorm.md: Complete thought evolution timeline
Multi-perspective analysis: Creative + Pragmatic + Systematic (serial, inline)
External research: Web search for inspiration, patterns, and best practices via web.run
Idea expansion: Progressive questioning and exploration
Diverge-Converge cycles: Generate options then focus on best paths
Progress tracking: functions.update_plan for real-time phase progress visibility
Structured handoff: Terminal gate with execution planning, issue creation, or completion

Auto Mode

When --yes or -y: Auto-confirm exploration decisions, use recommended perspectives, skip interactive scoping.

Quick Start

# Basic usage
/codex:brainstorm-with-file TOPIC="How to improve developer onboarding experience"

# With perspective selection
/codex:brainstorm-with-file TOPIC="New caching strategy" --perspectives=creative,pragmatic,systematic

# Continue existing session
/codex:brainstorm-with-file TOPIC="caching strategy" --continue

# Auto mode (skip confirmations)
/codex:brainstorm-with-file -y TOPIC="Plugin architecture ideas"

Target Topic

$TOPIC

Configuration

Flag	Default	Description
`-y, --yes`	false	Auto-confirm all decisions
`--continue`	false	Continue existing session
`--perspectives`	creative,pragmatic,systematic	Comma-separated perspective list
`--max-ideas`	15	Maximum ideas to track

Session ID format: BS-{YYYY-MM-DD}-{slug}

slug: lowercase, alphanumeric + CJK characters, max 40 chars
date: YYYY-MM-DD (UTC+8)
Auto-detect continue: session folder + brainstorm.md exists → continue mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,067 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.

today First seen · 1,067 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 91b47d7b8ffe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm-with-file is a skill published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,133 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 10,160 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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