adhd

A brainstorming method that generates many different ideas, then has a critic group and improve the strongest options. It is intended for situations where the right candidates are not known yet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /adhd, “brainstorm,” or “ideate” when you need to widen the options before choosing a solution.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond the first obvious answers when exploring a design or debugging approach, while avoiding the extra work for straightforward questions or known causes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/adhd
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill adhd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,008 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00062 $0.03008
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01504
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00301

Measured 2d ago against content hash fa556eb908a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adhd 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to adhd — 77 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/adhd/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADHD

Stop picking the textbook answer. The first three answers the model would give are the answers a senior engineer would give in thirty seconds. Correct. Forgettable. The interesting answers live past number three, in the awkward middle nobody walks into. This skill makes the model walk there.

When to use vs siblings

  • /adhdgenerate the option space when you don't have candidates yet.
  • /oracle (compare mode) — evaluate options you already have.
  • /plan-ceo-review — challenge whether the thing should be built at all.
  • /verify — adversarially check a conclusion you've already reached.

They compose: /adhd to widen, /oracle to weigh the shortlist.

Pre-flight (run before Phase 1)

This skill is expensive. About 10 Agent calls, 30 to 90 seconds wall clock, 5 to 10x a single answer. Do not pay that cost when a direct answer is better. Run this gate before Phase 1.

Step 1. Explicit invocation check.

If the user typed /adhd or explicitly asked for ADHD mode, "use the adhd skill", or "run ADHD on this", SKIP the rest of this section and go straight to Phase 1. The user opted in. Do not second-guess.

Step 2. Self-judge (only if Step 1 did not match).

Ask yourself three questions. If the answer to any is no, ABORT.

  1. Open-ended? Would a senior engineer give multiple viable answers here, or is there one canonical answer? If canonical, abort.
  2. High-stakes? Is the cost of the obvious answer being wrong actually high? Architecture decisions, public API surfaces, naming a real product, fuzzy bugs with no known root cause, schema design = yes. Side project at 11pm = no.
  3. Open phrasing? Did the user avoid words like "quick", "standard", "canonical", "textbook", "just", "one-line"? If they used any of those, they want the direct answer. Abort.

If all three checks pass, proceed to Phase 1.

If any fails, ABORT and answer the question directly. Optionally append one sentence: "If you want a wider exploration under parallel cognitive frames with explicit trap detection, run /adhd <your problem>."

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 2d ago First seen · 237 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A fa556eb908a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adhd is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (42 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,008 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to adhd, differing in 77 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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