brainstorming

A design-first planning skill for new features, components, and other substantial changes. It asks structured questions and gathers project context before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify feature requirements, review project constraints, research relevant practices, and prepare an approved design for implementation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear requirements and premature coding. Small fixes such as typos and simple renames bypass this process.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,076 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.01076
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00538
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef8adeab4dfb, 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 2d 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.

plugins/ai-pilot/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skip it entirely for trivial fixes, typos, or simple renames -- those go straight to APEX.

Brainstorming Skill

Design-first approach: no code before design approval.


Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)

Before ANY brainstorming session, use TeamCreate to spawn agents:

  1. fuse-ai-pilot:explore-codebase - Understand project context, patterns, constraints
  2. fuse-ai-pilot:research-expert - Fetch best practices and documentation

After design approval, transition to APEX Analyze phase, passing along the explore-codebase and research-expert findings in the handoff (not just the design doc). APEX Analyze re-runs those same agents by default — carrying forward what was already gathered here avoids re-doing the same research twice.


Overview

Scenario Action
New feature Full brainstorming (6 steps)
Major change Full brainstorming (6 steps)
Component creation Full brainstorming (6 steps)
Trivial fix (1-3 lines) Skip brainstorming, go to APEX
Simple rename/typo Skip brainstorming, go to APEX

6-Step Process

Step 1: Explore Project Context

Gather context before asking questions:

  • git log --oneline -20 - Recent changes and direction
  • Existing code patterns and conventions
  • Related documentation and prior decisions
  • Tech stack and dependency constraints

Step 2: Ask Clarifying Questions (ONE AT A TIME)

Ask focused questions sequentially. Wait for each answer before the next.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 126 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ef8adeab4dfb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusengine/agents (25 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,076 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.