idea-md

idea-md is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (926 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured concept brief for an early product idea, saved as Idea.md or IDEA.md. It connects the problem, users, proposed solution, project fit, risks, and next steps before a full requirements document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or expand an idea document from a description, repository, notes, conversation, or related product documents.
Why use it?
It turns rough notes or conversation into a clearer basis for deciding what to validate and build.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or expand an idea document from a description, repository, notes, conversation, or related product documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/idea-md
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 ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill idea-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 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 idea-md

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 926 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 $0.00082 $0.00926
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00093

Measured 11d ago against content hash e9bcb741c9ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-md 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 11d 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/idea-md/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea.md

Overview

Create a strong Idea.md when the user has an early concept but not yet a full PRD. Treat it as the bridge between raw brainstorming and formal product requirements.

An Idea.md is not universal. If the repo already has a local convention, follow it. If not, default to the house definition in references/what-is-idea-md.md: a concise, structured concept brief that captures the problem, user, solution, repo fit, risks, and next validation steps.

Announce at start: I'm using the idea-md skill to create or refine the idea file.

Inputs to Gather

Pull from the richest available sources, in this order:

  1. Existing Idea.md / IDEA.md / related drafts
  2. Current repo context: README, specs, roadmap docs, issues, package structure, notable constraints
  3. Conversation history and user-provided notes
  4. Adjacent artifacts such as PRDs, design docs, or research notes

If a repo exists, inspect it before writing. Do not invent technical context that could be learned from the codebase or docs.

Workflow

1. Determine the mode

Pick one:

  • New idea file: no existing idea doc, user wants one created
  • Expansion: user has a rough draft and wants it expanded
  • Rewrite: user wants a cleaner, more structured version of an existing idea file

2. Infer the right format

  • If the repo already uses an Idea.md convention, preserve it.
  • If the workflow expects Idea.md as an upstream planning artifact, keep it structured and concise.
  • If the request is just idea capture, it can be lighter, but still make it legible to someone other than the original author.

Use references/idea-template.md when no local template exists.

3. Synthesize, do not merely transcribe

Turn rough notes into a coherent narrative:

  • sharpen the core thesis
  • remove repetition
  • surface implicit assumptions
  • separate what is known from what is speculative
  • preserve genuinely distinctive phrasing or insights from the user

4. Ground it in reality

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 116 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A e9bcb741c9ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

idea-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 926 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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