brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided questioning process for understanding unclear or complex software requests before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explore options, clarify requirements, and work through creative or technical problems before code is written.
Why use it?
It helps prevent building the wrong solution because the requirements, goals, or trade-offs were not understood first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps explore options, clarify requirements, and work through creative or technical problems before code is written.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/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 DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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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 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,717 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00028 $0.01717
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00687
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash c4765f501909, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/socratic_gate_validator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agent/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[!IMPORTANT] AI Context & Knowledge Heritage

  • Subsystem: Agent Skills Registry / brainstorming
  • Architecture: @docs ARCHITECTURE:Documentation
  • Failure Path: Premature implementation, unverified architectural assumptions, missing Socratic Gate.
  • Observability: Traceability via execution/parity_guard.py ([SKILL])

🧠 Brainstorming & Communication Protocol

This protocol prevents premature execution—the tendency for an AI agent to immediately begin coding before validating scope, requirements, and constraints. It positions the agent as a technical consultant who validates the "What" and "Why" before executing the "How."

📚 Progressive Disclosure & L3 Reference Index

For deep question generation heuristics, domain decision banks, and deterministic validation tooling:


⛓️ The Development Pipeline

This skill serves as the entry gate to the Sovereign development lifecycle. Do not skip stages.

Brainstorming (Requirements & Socratic Gate) $\rightarrow$ Orchestrate (Decomposition) $\rightarrow$ Aletheia (Invariants & Logic) $\rightarrow$ Clean-Code (Implementation)


🛑 The Socratic Gate (Mandatory Halt)

1. Trigger Conditions

The Socratic Gate MUST be triggered whenever a request contains:

  • Vague Verbs: "Build/Create/Make/Update/Optimize [feature]" without unambiguous API contracts or target files.
  • High Complexity: Architectural transitions, new subsystems, or multi-file refactoring.
  • Unknown Constraints: Unspecified latency targets, security boundaries, or deployment environments.
  • Ambiguity Score $\ge 3$: Per the Socratic Decision Framework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 12d ago Changed · +10 lines · +12 tokens per session c4765f501909
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d9d276f2fd9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,717 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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