brainstorm

An interactive planning aid for turning a rough feature idea into a structured design document. It examines the relevant parts of a codebase and asks clarifying questions one at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a new feature to inspect related files, understand the project’s technology and patterns, review recent changes, and refine the idea into a design specification.
Why use it?
It helps uncover technical constraints and important scope decisions before implementation begins.

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/hatmanstack/ragstack-lambda/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add HatmanStack/RAGStack-Lambda --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HatmanStack/RAGStack-Lambda

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,254 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 $0.00031 $0.01254
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00627
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00125

Measured yesterday against content hash d4b821352394, 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Brainstorm

You are helping the user refine a feature idea into a complete design spec through structured exploration and questioning.

Input

The user will provide a feature idea as $ARGUMENTS. This may be a description, a pointer to a document, or a rough concept.

Process

Step 1: Understand the Feature Idea

Read the user's feature description carefully. If they point to a document, read it.

Step 2: Explore Relevant Codebase

Focus your exploration on areas relevant to the feature idea. Do not survey the entire codebase.

  • Use Glob to find files in areas the feature will touch
  • Use Grep to find existing patterns, utilities, or conventions
  • Use Read to understand key files, config, and project structure
  • Check package.json, requirements.txt, or equivalent for dependencies and scripts
  • Look at recent git history for active areas: git log --oneline -20

Build a mental model of: tech stack, project structure, existing patterns the feature should follow, and integration points.

Step 3: Ask Clarifying Questions

Ask questions one at a time. Aim for 5-15 questions total, prioritizing high-impact scope decisions.

Prefer multiple choice, but open-ended is fine when the option space is too large:

The codebase uses DynamoDB for storage. For this feature's data, should we:

A) Add tables to the existing DynamoDB setup
B) Use a different storage approach (e.g., S3 for documents)
C) Both — DynamoDB for metadata, S3 for content

Question priority order:

  1. Scope — What's in, what's out? MVP vs full vision?
  2. Architecture — How does this integrate with existing code?
  3. Data model — What entities, relationships, storage?
  4. User-facing behavior — Inputs, outputs, error cases?
  5. Non-functional — Performance, security, deployment constraints?

Rules:

  • One question per message
  • Wait for the user's answer before asking the next question
  • Reference specific files/patterns you found during exploration to ground questions in reality
  • If a question has an obvious answer based on existing codebase patterns, state your assumption and ask for confirmation instead
  • Track which questions you've asked and what's been decided

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. yesterday First seen · 151 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A d4b821352394

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository HatmanStack/RAGStack-Lambda (25 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,254 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 2026-08-30.

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