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.specify/extensions/superspec/.specify-dev/agent-commands/claude/speckit-superspec-brainstorm/SKILL.md

speckit-superspec-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HelixDevelopment/code. It costs 26 tokens per session (534 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided brainstorming workflow for finding edge cases and refining a software specification. A specification records the expected behavior and constraints of a feature or system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a target spec one question at a time and add clarified requirements for empty states, errors, scale, security, and usability.
Why use it?
It helps uncover overlooked boundaries, failures, performance limits, security risks, and confusing user experiences before implementation. Answers are incorporated into the specification as the discussion progresses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

This is HelixDevelopment/code's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on code itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything code configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to HelixDevelopment/code. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelixDevelopment/code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 534 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 $0.00026 $0.00534
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9e630aff55f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit-superspec-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 5d 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.

.specify/extensions/superspec/.specify-dev/agent-commands/claude/speckit-superspec-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

speckit.superspec.brainstorm

Deep-dive edge cases and refine a spec document using brainstorming skills.

Usage

/speckit.superspec.brainstorm [spec-path] [focus-topic]

Example: /speckit.superspec.brainstorm specs/001-develop/spec.md "Discuss the Edge Cases in the requirements document and confirm how to resolve these scenarios."

Process

  1. Read the target spec file
  2. Read the constitution for project constraints
  3. Superpowers detection: Check for brainstorming skill
    • If found: Read the brainstorming SKILL.md and follow its questioning protocol, adapting all outputs to the target spec file
    • If not found: Use the built-in 5-category questioning protocol:
      • Boundary conditions (min/max, empty states, edge-of-range)
      • Error scenarios (service down, malformed input, partial failures)
      • Scale & performance (load, concurrency, rate limits)
      • Security & privacy (injection, authorization, data exposure)
      • User experience (confusion points, accessibility, unintended usage)
  4. Ask questions one at a time, preferring multiple choice format
  5. After each answer, update the spec:
    • New requirements → add to Functional Requirements
    • Resolved questions → update Open Questions table
    • New edge cases → add to Edge Cases section
  6. When the user confirms the spec is ready, update the "Brainstorm Log" with a dated summary of insights discovered

Output

Updated spec file with refined edge cases, resolved open questions, and brainstorm log entries.

Iteration

This command can be run multiple times on the same spec. Each session appends to the brainstorm log and skips previously explored categories.

Superpowers Adaptation

When using the brainstorming skill, adapt its outputs:

  • Design documents → fold insights back into the existing spec.md
  • Output location → write to specs/NNN/spec.md (not docs/superpowers/)

See .specify/extensions/superspec/references/superpowers-bridge.md for full adaptation rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 5d ago First seen · 59 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 9e630aff55f1

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speckit-superspec-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository HelixDevelopment/code (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 534 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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