brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from dorayo/orchestrix-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for turning a rough software idea into an agreed requirement and design. It is used before writing code or creating project files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying purpose, constraints, and success measures; deciding whether a request should be split; and preparing a design for approval before implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear goals, assumptions, and project boundaries early, reducing the chance of building the wrong thing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the orchestrix-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Clarifying purpose, constraints, and success measures; deciding whether a request should be split; and preparing a design for approval before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dorayo/orchestrix-skills/brainstorm
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 dorayo/orchestrix-skills --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dorayo/orchestrix-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orchestrix-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 928 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 $0.00036 $0.00928
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured 6d ago against content hash 46bd66b24cb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm 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 6d 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/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm

Turn a rough intent into an agreed, sharp requirement and design through dialogue. This is the front of the funnel and the project's main direction gate.

Core principle: "Too simple to need a design" is where unexamined assumptions waste the most work. Every intent gets a design — short if simple, but always presented and approved.

HARD GATE: do not invoke any build skill, write code, or scaffold anything until the design is approved. (accept: inline.)

Process

  1. Explore context. Read the relevant knowledge slices (taste/*, architecture/*, registry/* — physical paths from core-config.yaml, default under knowledge/) and existing code before asking anything.
  2. Scope check first. If the intent spans independent subsystems, say so and help decompose into sub-projects — each gets its own spec → stories → build. Don't refine details of something that should be split.
  3. Clarify, one question at a time. Purpose, constraints, success criteria. Prefer multiple-choice. Never batch questions while direction is still open — each answer shapes the next question. Batch-questionnaire branch: once direction is settled and what remains is ≥3 mutually independent detail questions, switch to ONE structured questionnaire instead of asking serially — every question gets concrete options plus a recommended default, so the human can answer the whole set in a single pass (in Claude Code, use AskUserQuestion). Never mix modes: direction questions are always serial, independent details are always batched.
  4. Propose 2–3 approaches with trade-offs; lead with your recommendation and why.
  5. Present the design in sections, scaled to complexity; confirm each section before moving on. Cover: behavior, data flow, error handling, testing.
  6. Apply YAGNI ruthlessly. Cut every feature the intent does not require.

Output: the spec

Write one file in the specs namespace (default docs/specs/<slug>.md):

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 6d ago Changed · +3 lines 46bd66b24cb7
  2. 10d ago First seen · 98 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A bec8f4d9f2c1

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository dorayo/orchestrix-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 928 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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