Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill research-brainstorming-research-ideasgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starlingWrote 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/graycodeai/starling/research-brainstorming-research-ideas)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/graycodeai/starling/research-brainstorming-research-ideas"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/graycodeai/starling/research-brainstorming-research-ideas.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00044 | $0.00327 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00163 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00065 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
research-brainstorming-research-ideas 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 6d 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.
What it actually says
Usage Instructions for Agents
When a researcher asks for help brainstorming research ideas:
- Identify their starting point: Are they exploring a new area, stuck on a current project, or evaluating an existing idea?
- Select appropriate frameworks: Use the Framework Selection Guide to pick 2-3 relevant lenses
- Walk through frameworks interactively: Apply each framework step-by-step, asking the researcher for domain-specific inputs
- Generate candidates: Aim for 10-20 raw ideas across frameworks
- Filter and rank: Apply the Converge phase filters to narrow to top 3-5
- Refine the winner: Help articulate the two-sentence pitch and define concrete next steps
Key Principles:
- Push for specificity—vague ideas ("improve efficiency") are not actionable
- Challenge assumptions—ask "why?" at least three times
- Maintain a written list of all candidates, even rejected ones (they may recombine later)
- The researcher makes the final call on which ideas to pursue; the agent facilitates structured thinking
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 34 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 595e286070a3
research-brainstorming-research-ideas is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 327 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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brainstorming-research-ideas
Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.
brainstorming-research-ideas
Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.
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