brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from gustavo-meilus/superpipelines. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,065 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design process that turns a vague coding request into an agreed plan before any code is written. It asks focused questions and compares possible approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify new features, components, or pipeline changes, then document the architecture, data flow, error handling, and testing plan.
Why use it?
It prevents developers and agents from starting implementation with different assumptions about the goal, limits, or success criteria.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superpipelines plugin — 54 skills, 10 commands, 14 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify new features, components, or pipeline changes, then document the architecture, data flow, error handling, and testing plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming
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 gustavo-meilus/superpipelines --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpipelines, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 10 commands, 14 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gustavo-meilus/superpipelines/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,065 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 $0.00075 $0.01065
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61883c29df99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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/superpipelines/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming — Idea Refinement

The Brainstorming Process

2. CLARIFYING DIALOGUE

  • Clarifying questions focus on purpose, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Exactly one question is asked per message to avoid overwhelming the user.
  • Multiple-choice options (A/B/C) are preferred for faster decision-making. Example: "Which data store fits the scale requirement? A) SQLite (embedded, single-node), B) PostgreSQL (shared, multi-writer), C) Redis (ephemeral cache)."

3. APPROACH & RECOMMENDATION

  • Two to three architectural approaches are proposed with explicit trade-offs.
  • A specific recommendation leads, with reasoning grounded in project context. Example: "Approach B is recommended because the existing service layer already exposes a PostgreSQL connection pool — adding SQLite would introduce a second persistence mechanism with no clear boundary."

4. DESIGN PRESENTATION (THE GATE)

  • The refined design is presented in logical sections: Architecture, Data Flow, Error Handling, Testing.
  • Code writing and project scaffolding are prohibited until the user has explicitly approved the presented design sections.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 9d ago First seen · 79 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 61883c29df99

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository gustavo-meilus/superpipelines (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,065 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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