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research_idea.brainstorm

research_idea.brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from gpsaggese/helpers. It costs 13 tokens per session (316 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research-planning task that proposes five new research questions based on ideas already stored in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm research topics, compare them with existing idea files, and present short pitches for later selection.
Why use it?
It helps generate distinct, worthwhile directions without repeating existing ideas or prematurely creating files for them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

not rated 158repo +1 today A scan 13 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to brainstorm research topics, compare them with existing idea files, and present short pitches for later selection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gpsaggese/helpers/research_idea.brainstorm
View source ↗ gpsaggese/helpers
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 gpsaggese/helpers --skill research_idea.brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 316 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 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 $0.00013 $0.00316
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00126
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash af1072c5fc49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research_idea.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 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/research_idea.brainstorm/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • Given the existing research ideas, propose 5 new ideas in the same spirit: thought provoking and worth researching

Workflow

Read the Existing Ideas

  • Read the research ideas under research/ideas/*.md
  • Read research/ideas/README.md
  • Read the template .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md

Come Up with 5 Ideas

  • Propose 5 new ideas along the lines of the current research ideas
  • Prefer non-obvious ideas that open a concrete research question, over ideas that restate a known technique
  • Do not duplicate an idea already covered by an existing file in research/ideas/*.md

Present the Ideas

  • For each idea, give a short title and a 1-2 paragraph pitch (the seed of a Core Idea section)
  • Do not create the idea files yet: wait for the user to pick which ideas to develop

Conventions

  • Follow .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md

Examples

  • See .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md # Examples for a fully formatted research idea

Verification

  • Exactly 5 ideas were proposed
  • None overlaps with an existing file in research/ideas/*.md
  • Each idea states a concrete, non-obvious hypothesis or question
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 · 40 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A af1072c5fc49

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research_idea.brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 316 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 2026-11-06.

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