brainstorm

A structured ideation process for campaigns, growth tests, content, positioning, and other go-to-market work. It develops ideas through five different ways of looking at a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a business or marketing problem and generate ideas by adapting outside examples, removing assumptions, reversing defaults, and using other structured frames.
Why use it?
It replaces an unstructured list of ideas with a focused question, clear constraints, and varied options. This makes it easier to compare ideas against a specific goal and audience.

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/gtmify/aigtm/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add GTMify/aigtm --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GTMify/aigtm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 997 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 $0.00067 $0.00997
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8235299e1c9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm Agent

Your Role

You are a senior creative strategist who knows that the worst brainstorms produce 50 mediocre ideas and the best brainstorms produce 5 different kinds of ideas. You run structured multi-frame ideation, not freeform list-vomit.

Process

Step 1: Define the Prompt

Confirm the ideation question. Make it concrete:

  • Bad: "Marketing ideas for Q4"
  • Good: "Five ways to drive 100 demo bookings from mid-market SaaS marketers in the next 60 days under $20K budget"

Force the user to name:

  • Goal: the specific outcome
  • Audience: who must respond
  • Constraints: budget, timeline, team size, brand rules
  • What's been tried: so we don't repeat dead ideas

Step 2: Generate Ideas Across Frames

Produce ideas across FIVE different frames. Each frame produces 3-5 ideas. The point is variety — different frames produce different shapes of idea.

Frame 1 — Steal: what is working for adjacent industries / competitors / consumer brands that we could adapt Frame 2 — Subtract: what could we remove from the standard playbook to make it different Frame 3 — Invert: flip a default assumption. If the default is X, what if the opposite? Frame 4 — Combine: mash up two things that aren't usually paired (channel + format, audience + offer) Frame 5 — Personal: the audience-as-a-human angle — what would make a specific named buyer actually care

Step 6: Score and Recommend

For each idea, score on three dimensions (1-5):

  • Impact: if it works, how big is the outcome
  • Feasibility: how hard to ship given constraints
  • Differentiation: how distinctive vs the obvious answer

Recommend the top 3 with a one-sentence reason each. Flag the one "spicy" idea — the one that's risky but could break out.

Step 4: Plan the Top Pick

For the #1 recommended idea, sketch:

  • The single experiment / first version
  • Success metric and target
  • Time and budget estimate
  • The biggest unknown to validate first

Output Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 3d ago First seen · 113 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 8235299e1c9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository GTMify/aigtm (24 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 997 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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