brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for exploring a software idea before building it, then producing a specification, design, and implementation roadmap.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects that need discovery of the problem, users, smallest useful solution, and build plan.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear idea into agreed requirements and concrete development steps.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the superpowers-deepseek-v4 plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for new projects that need discovery of the problem, users, smallest useful solution, and build plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/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 gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-deepseek-v4, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

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/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/brainstorming/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/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/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,206 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 $0.00037 $0.02206
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00221

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0b20b8c36f95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/helper.js, scripts/server.cjs, scripts/start-server.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Turn ideas into specs through a structured two-phase flow.

  • Phase A (alignment) — human-driven dialogue. Ask one question at a time, propose 2–3 approaches with trade-offs, record every decision with its rationale.
  • Phase B (spec writing) — agent-driven draft + multi-reviewer review loop until convergence, with user-arbitration on unresolved findings.

A decision-log file is created at session start and appended throughout. Status: Done and git commit only happen at terminal state.

Announce at start: "I'm using the brainstorming SKILL."

Step 0 (strict first step): Invoke resume-brainstorming

Always invoke superpowers-deepseek-v4:resume-brainstorming first. It either:

  • Returns proceed-with-new-empty (no existing decision logs) → continue to Step 1 with a fresh file.
  • Returns the path of an In Progress file to continue → skip to the matching point in the flow per the resume table.
  • Returns the path of a new file (Based On a Done or Abandoned file) plus prior-discussion context → continue to Step 1, but treat the prior content as established background instead of starting from zero.

Before creating or modifying the decision-log, spec, or any other project file: Invoke superpowers-deepseek-v4:confirming-worktree-before-edit

Step 1: Initialize the decision-log file

Use skills/resume-brainstorming/templates/brainstorm-template.md as the verbatim base. Fill the metadata header:

  • Date Started: <today>
  • Status: In Progress
  • Current Phase: alignment
  • Last Updated: <now>
  • Based On: (only if resume-brainstorming returned a new-based-on file)

Write the user's first message verbatim under ## Original User Request.

Confirm the <topic-slug> with the user before doing anything else (the filename uses this slug).

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 0b20b8c36f95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,206 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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