brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elleryfamilia/loadout. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,220 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of brainstorming, MIT.

A guided discussion workflow that turns an idea into an agreed design before implementation. It examines the project, asks clarifying questions, and produces a design or specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating a feature, component, or behavior change, including work that initially appears small.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements and hidden assumptions before code is written, reducing avoidable rework.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before creating a feature, component, or behavior change, including work that initially appears small.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elleryfamilia/loadout/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 elleryfamilia/loadout --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elleryfamilia/loadout

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 2,220 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 100% 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.02220
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00888
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00222

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e14914605f64, 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 1mo 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

100% identical to brainstorming — 0 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.

vendored/superpowers/brainstorming.SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

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 and get user approval.

Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.

Checklist

You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:

  1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
  2. Offer the visual companion just-in-time — NOT upfront. The first time a question would genuinely be clearer shown than described, offer it then (its own message); on approval its browser tab opens for you. If no visual question ever arises, never offer it. See the Visual Companion section below.
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
  5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity, get user approval after each section
  6. Write design doc — save to docs/superpowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md and commit
  7. Spec self-review — quick inline check for placeholders, contradictions, ambiguity, scope (see below)
  8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review the spec file before proceeding
  9. Transition to implementation — invoke writing-plans skill to create implementation plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A e14914605f64

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository elleryfamilia/loadout (32 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,220 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to brainstorming, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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