brainstorming

A question-based process for clarifying complex, new, or unclear software requests before implementation. It asks about the problem, users, and required scope, then uses the answers to guide decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying feature requests, planning new projects, deciding the scope of changes, and handling complex architecture or debugging work.
Why use it?
It helps prevent developers from coding against hidden assumptions or solving the wrong problem.

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/felipeslo/opencode-kit/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add felipeslo/opencode-kit --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/felipeslo/opencode-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,084 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% 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 $0.00033 $0.01084
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00542
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured yesterday against content hash ebfbe334197f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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

84% identical to brainstorming — 20 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.

.opencode/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming & Communication Protocol

MANDATORY: Use for complex/vague requests, new features, updates.


🛑 SOCRATIC GATE (ENFORCEMENT)

When to Trigger

Pattern Action
"Build/Create/Make [thing]" without details 🛑 ASK 3 questions
Complex feature or architecture 🛑 Clarify before implementing
Update/change request 🛑 Confirm scope
Vague requirements 🛑 Ask purpose, users, constraints

🚫 MANDATORY: 3 Questions Before Implementation

  1. STOP - Do NOT start coding
  2. ASK - Minimum 3 questions:
    • 🎯 Purpose: What problem are you solving?
    • 👥 Users: Who will use this?
    • 📦 Scope: Must-have vs nice-to-have?
  3. WAIT - Get response before proceeding

🧠 Dynamic Question Generation

⛔ NEVER use static templates. Read dynamic-questioning.md for principles.

Core Principles

Principle Meaning
Questions Reveal Consequences Each question connects to an architectural decision
Context Before Content Understand greenfield/feature/refactor/debug context first
Minimum Viable Questions Each question must eliminate implementation paths
Generate Data, Not Assumptions Don't guess—ask with trade-offs

Question Generation Process

1. Parse request → Extract domain, features, scale indicators
2. Identify decision points → Blocking vs. deferable
3. Generate questions → Priority: P0 (blocking) > P1 (high-leverage) > P2 (nice-to-have)
4. Format with trade-offs → What, Why, Options, Default

Question Format (MANDATORY)

### [PRIORITY] **[DECISION POINT]**

**Question:** [Clear question]

**Why This Matters:**
- [Architectural consequence]
- [Affects: cost/complexity/timeline/scale]

**Options:**
| Option | Pros | Cons | Best For |
|--------|------|------|----------|
| A | [+] | [-] | [Use case] |

**If Not Specified:** [Default + rationale]

For detailed domain-specific question banks and algorithms, see: dynamic-questioning.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 163 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A ebfbe334197f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository felipeslo/opencode-kit (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,084 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to brainstorming, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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