brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for turning a rough idea into a clear design or specification. It asks focused questions and checks the design in small sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape features, compare implementation approaches, design system architecture, and refine vague requests.
Why use it?
It helps when requirements are incomplete or several approaches could work. You can clarify goals and trade-offs before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it to shape features, compare implementation approaches, design system architecture, and refine vague requests.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,485 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.01485
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00148

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9e63aecad76a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm

Transform ideas into fully-formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

When to Use

  • User has an idea that needs refinement ("I want to add...")
  • Feature requires design exploration before implementation
  • Multiple valid approaches exist and trade-offs need evaluation
  • Requirements are unclear or partially defined
  • User explicitly asks to brainstorm, design, or spec out a feature

The Process

Phase 1: Context Gathering

Before asking questions, understand the current state:

1. Check project structure (Glob key directories)
2. Review recent commits (git log --oneline -10)
3. Read relevant existing code/docs
4. Identify patterns and conventions already in use

Phase 2: Idea Refinement

Core Principle: One question at a time.

Ask questions to understand the idea. Prefer multiple-choice when possible:

Use AskUserQuestion with:
- 2-4 options per question
- Clear, mutually exclusive choices
- Your recommended option first (with reasoning)

Question Categories:

Category Example Questions
Purpose What problem does this solve? Who benefits?
Constraints Must integrate with X? Budget/time limits?
Success How do we know it worked? Key metrics?
Scope What's explicitly NOT included?
Prior Art Seen similar elsewhere? What worked/didn't?

Exit Criteria: Stop asking when purpose, constraints, and success criteria are clear.

Phase 3: Approach Exploration

Present 2-3 approaches with trade-offs:

## Approach A: [Name] (Recommended)
- **Pros**: ...
- **Cons**: ...
- **Best when**: ...

## Approach B: [Name]
- **Pros**: ...
- **Cons**: ...
- **Best when**: ...

Lead with recommendation and explain why. Ask user to confirm or discuss.

Phase 4: Incremental Design Presentation

Once approach is selected, present the design in sections:

CRITICAL: Each section must be 200-300 words max.

After each section, ask:

"Does this section look right so far? Any adjustments needed?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 12d ago First seen · 219 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9e63aecad76a

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,485 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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