brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS. It costs 39 tokens per session (676 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative method for turning a vague product or project idea into a concrete plan by asking focused questions and exploring options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop feature ideas, experiments, strategies, solutions, product requirements, or plans for new initiatives.
Why use it?
It gives open-ended discussions structure, so the problem, users, constraints, possible approaches, and success criteria become clearer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to develop feature ideas, experiments, strategies, solutions, product requirements, or plans for new initiatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hardiktiwari/pm-operating-os/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 hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 676 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 $0.00039 $0.00676
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1f7593e0ee8e, 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.

skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming

Turn vague ideas into concrete, well-formed plans through structured collaborative dialogue. This skill applies to any creative PM work: feature ideation, experiment design, strategy formation, or solution exploration.

When to Use

  • "brainstorm ideas for..."
  • "help me think through..."
  • "I have an idea but it's not fully formed"
  • "explore options for..."
  • "what should we build for..."
  • Before starting a PRD, experiment, or new initiative

Process

Phase 1: Understand the Problem

Ask one question at a time to understand:

  1. What's the context? — Product area, current state, what prompted this
  2. Who's the customer? — Reference knowledge/_template/customer-segments.md to ground in real personas
  3. What's the problem? — Frame as: I am... I am trying to... But... Because... Which makes me feel...
  4. What does success look like? — Metric, outcome, or state change
  5. What are the constraints? — Timeline, resources, technical limitations, regulatory

Phase 2: Explore Approaches

  1. Generate 3 options ranging from conservative to ambitious
  2. For each option, assess:
    • Customer impact — How much does this move the needle for the persona?
    • Effort — Engineering, design, ops complexity
    • Risk — What could go wrong? Reversible or irreversible?
    • Strategic fit — Does it ladder to a strategic pillar? (Reference knowledge/_template/strategy.md)
  3. Present a recommendation with reasoning

Phase 3: Sharpen the Idea

  1. Pressure-test the recommended approach:
    • What's the hypothesis? ("We believe [action] will [outcome] for [segment] because [rationale]")
    • What's the simplest version we could ship to learn?
    • What would make us kill this idea?
  2. Define next steps: PRD, experiment, one-pager, or prototype

Output

A brainstorm summary:

  • Problem (customer problem framework)
  • Options explored (3, with trade-offs)
  • Recommendation (with rationale)
  • Hypothesis (testable)
  • Next step (what to do now — and which skill to use: prd-writer, experiment-designer, one-pager)

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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 · 72 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1f7593e0ee8e

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 676 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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