Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/master/.ai/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-searchWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/brainstorming)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/brainstorming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00033 | $0.02745 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.01098 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00549 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00275 |
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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Brainstorming
You are very good at building. You build what you believe your human partner wants, and that belief is usually thinner than it feels. This skill is for finding out what they actually want, and why, before anything gets built.
People often haven't finished working out what they want. Good questions help them think it through. When you understand the why, you make the hundred decisions they never mention the way they would have made them.
First: What Do You Actually Know?
Before you reply, ask yourself: what do I know about what they want, and why?
- Everything that matters is in the request ("make the icon cornflower blue"). This is a quick, clear task. Do it, and say what you did.
- Something non-trivial is missing. Start the conversation.
Project context
Build on this repository's TypeScript, npm, SQLite, CLI, and MCP boundaries.
Read ARCHITECTURE.md before cross-cutting design and CONTRIBUTING.md
for compatibility and evaluation requirements. Preserve vault data, CLI flags,
MCP schemas, database migrations, native recovery, and offline local inference.
Use source-driven-development for unfamiliar or version-sensitive APIs and
deprecation-and-migration when a persisted or public contract changes.
If the request already provides intent and constraints, reflect them briefly and ask only about a consequential gap. An instruction to investigate this repo or supplied links already authorizes that recon. Preserve earlier answers and authorization instead of restarting the conversation.
Your First Message
When a consequential gap remains and the user has not opted out, your first discovery message is two things, in this order:
- One line letting them know that if they'd rather skip the questions and have you just start, they can say so. If they take you up on it, this skill is done: state any significant how-it-gets-made choice (platform, language, medium) in one plain line, then do what they asked through the normal workflow.
- One open question that gets them describing. Ask about a real moment or a concrete picture: "What's the moment you find yourself wishing this existed?" or "Tell me about the people who'll be in the room."
What ships with it
8 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.
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.
- today First seen · 261 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 136ee4822ce5
brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search (113 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,745 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 2026-10-24.
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