brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from coctostan/pi-superpowers-plus. It costs 37 tokens per session (752 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning conversation for turning an idea into a clear software design before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a feature, component, or behavior change, including reviewing the project and writing a plan.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear requirements and design choices before they become costly code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when creating a feature, component, or behavior change, including reviewing the project and writing a plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coctostan/pi-superpowers-plus/brainstorming
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 coctostan/pi-superpowers-plus --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coctostan/pi-superpowers-plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 752 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 $0.00037 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash 444ff572d7a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 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/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Related skills: Consider /skill:using-git-worktrees to set up an isolated workspace, then /skill:writing-plans for implementation planning.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Overview

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design in small sections (200-300 words), checking after each section whether it looks right so far.

Boundaries

  • Read code and docs: yes
  • Write to docs/plans/: yes
  • Edit or create any other files: no

The Process

Before anything else — check git state:

  • Run git status and git log --oneline -5
  • If on a feature branch with uncommitted or unmerged work, ask the user:
    • "You're on <branch> with uncommitted changes. Want to finish/merge that first, stash it, or continue here?"
  • Require exactly one of: finish prior work, stash, or explicitly continue here
  • If the topic is new, suggest creating a new branch before brainstorming

Understanding the idea:

  • Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
  • Check if the codebase or ecosystem already solves this before designing from scratch
  • Ask questions one at a time to refine the idea
  • Prefer multiple choice questions when possible, but open-ended is fine too
  • Only one question per message - if a topic needs more exploration, break it into multiple questions
  • Focus on understanding: purpose, constraints, success criteria

Exploring approaches:

  • Propose 2-3 different approaches with trade-offs
  • Present options conversationally with your recommendation and reasoning
  • Lead with your recommended option and explain why

Presenting the design:

  • Once you believe you understand what you're building, present the design
  • Break it into sections of 200-300 words
  • Ask after each section whether it looks right so far
  • Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing
  • Be ready to go back and clarify if something doesn't make sense

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 8d ago First seen · 71 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 444ff572d7a4

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository coctostan/pi-superpowers-plus (105 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 752 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 2026-08-30.