briefbound-creative-toolbox

briefbound-creative-toolbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CCDawn/codex-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative thinking guide for generating, changing, comparing, and naming ideas. It chooses a suitable method based on whether you are starting, refining, selecting, or stuck.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for concept development, naming, reframing a problem, finding variations, choosing between ideas, or getting unstuck.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague creative work into a small set of concrete ideas tied to your situation and constraints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Part of the briefbound-skills plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for concept development, naming, reframing a problem, finding variations, choosing between ideas, or getting unstuck.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ccdawn/codex-skills/briefbound-creative-toolbox
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 CCDawn/codex-skills --skill briefbound-creative-toolbox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CCDawn/codex-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install briefbound-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,323 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.
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 $0.00043 $0.01323
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00661
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00132

Measured 8d ago against content hash 48355d95b5d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

briefbound-creative-toolbox 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 8d 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/creative/briefbound-creative-toolbox/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative Toolbox

目标

根据用户所处阶段选择一个合适的创意方法,产出少量具体、非显而易见且能继续行动的想法。重点是改变机制或观察角度,不是把普通建议包装成概念卡。

Briefbound task contract

  • Context Boundary: 用户目标、当前材料、创意阶段、领域、约束和明确非目标。
  • Output Contract: 选用的方法、少量具体候选、真实失败方式、推荐方向和第一步。
  • Allowed Action: 生成、改写、比较和筛选想法;外部调研、实现、资产或代码写入需路由对应 owner。
  • Success Evidence: 每个保留候选绑定当前情境,说明具体机制、适用原因、失败方式和可执行第一步。
  • Stop Condition: 创意阶段仍有高影响歧义、上下文不足以产生具体候选、用户已选择方向,或请求进入实现。
  • Route Out: briefbound-planningbriefbound-feature-reuse-researchbriefbound-evaluation、具体实现 owner,或 briefbound-router

统一调用契约

  • 用户可见内容默认中文,先给可用想法,不汇报内部路由过程;Route Out 仅以 Briefbound task contract 为准。
  • 方法名会帮助复用时才展示,并用一句话解释它如何改变本轮思考;不列一串术语。
  • 默认给 3 个候选,不用空话凑数。末行写 下一步建议: <一个具体动作>

Method Router

先判断阶段,再选方法;一次默认只用一个方法:

阶段 用户信号 默认方法 目的
GENERATE 还没有方向 约束碰撞 用真实材料和限制生成方向
EXPAND 已有一个想法,想看变化 机制变异 改用户、触发、媒介、尺度或反馈
SELECT 已有多个选项 事前验尸/反向检验 用失败原因拉开差异
UNBLOCK 卡住或循环重复 反转 暂时颠倒关键假设以找新入口
SUBVERT 太安全、太常规 挑衅约束 先制造不合理命题,再翻译成可用机制
REFINE 方向可用但不够锋利 矛盾求解 明确冲突并重新安排关系
SYNTHESIZE 有大量笔记或观察 聚类命名 找重复结构、异常项和未命名主题
NAMING 需要命名 命名锻造 从机制、张力和记忆点生成名称

若用户直接指定方法就使用它。只有两个信号确实冲突且单一方法无法处理时,最多组合两个,并说明各自作用。阶段不清且会改变方法时只问一个问题;否则基于当前材料直接开始。

需要时才读 references/full-toolbox.mdPerspective Juryrole-deck.md 仅用于用户明确要求的深度对抗评估。

Anti-Obvious Gate

内部先拒绝前 3 个显而易见的答案;AI、效率、习惯、旅行、健身等同质化主题拒绝前 5 个。废案通常不展示。

保留候选必须同时满足:

  • 绑定用户的真实材料、限制或张力;
  • 描述具体机制,不用“平台、生态、AI 赋能”代替机制;
  • 与其他候选在核心做法上不同;
  • 至少一个今天就能开始验证;
  • 说明一个真实失败方式或不适用场景。

“怪”不是质量。无法说明为什么现在有用、为谁有用或怎样开始的怪想法应淘汰。

最小流程

  1. 提取阶段、领域、具体问题和硬约束。
  2. 选择一个方法,并用它生成足够多的内部草案。
  3. 运行 Anti-Obvious Gate,删除换皮、重复和只改命名的想法。
  4. 默认保留 3 个差异最大的候选,其中至少一个现实可做、一个打破常规。
  5. 每个候选说明机制、为什么适合、失败方式和第一步。
  6. 推荐一个方向并说明选择依据;用户选中后停止继续发散,路由到深化或实现。

输出

简单任务直接给候选。复杂任务可用:

本轮方法: <方法;一句话解释>

1. <候选名称或一句话定义>
   - 怎么运作: <具体机制>
   - 为什么适合: <与当前情境的连接>
   - 可能失败在: <真实失败方式>
   - 第一步: <可执行动作>

我的建议: <一个候选及理由>
下一步建议: <一个具体动作>

命名任务改为输出 名称 / 词源或构成 / 传达的机制 / 容易误解之处;选择任务允许只返回一个明确结论,不硬凑三个新想法。

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 92 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 48355d95b5d2

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briefbound-creative-toolbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository CCDawn/codex-skills (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,323 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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