workflow-brainstorm

workflow-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Heyvhuang/ship-faster. It costs 86 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design skill for turning a vague software idea into a confirmed written specification before implementation. It checks project context and asks one question at a time, with options and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a feature, component, or behavior change, inspect the existing project, decide between design options, and produce an agreed implementation specification.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong feature from incomplete requirements. The resulting design is split into reviewable sections and saved as reusable artifacts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to clarify a feature, component, or behavior change, inspect the existing project, decide between design options, and produce an agreed implementation specification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heyvhuang/ship-faster/workflow-brainstorm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Heyvhuang/ship-faster --skill workflow-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Heyvhuang/ship-faster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00086 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured 9d ago against content hash 77dbfd818443, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-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 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/workflow-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Goal

Transform "vague ideas/requirements" into actionable designs and specifications, producing reusable file artifacts (rather than just staying in chat).

Key requirement: Ask only one question at a time. If a topic is complex, break it into multiple rounds of Q&A—don't throw out a checklist all at once.

Core Process (Must Follow)

0) Check Project Context First (Required When Repo Exists)

Before asking questions, quickly check:

  • Key documentation: README.md, docs/, design-system.md (if exists)
  • Tech stack and constraints: package.json / Cargo.toml / pyproject.toml etc.
  • Structure overview: top-level directories, main modules
  • Recent changes: git log -n 10 --oneline (if it's a git repo)

Output a very brief context summary: what you observed + possible constraint points (don't start designing yet).

1) Understand the Idea (One Question at a Time)

Goal is to gather the minimum information set (purpose / constraints / success criteria).

Rules:

  • Each message asks 1 question only
  • Prefer multiple choice (reduce user's cognitive load), use open questions only when necessary
  • Ask direction-determining questions first (goals/success criteria/non-goals), then details

2) Explore Solutions (2-3 Options + Trade-offs)

After you understand the requirements:

  • Provide 2-3 options (A/B/C)
  • Explain trade-offs for each (complexity/risk/iteration speed/long-term cost)
  • Give your recommended option first, then explain why

3) Output Design (200-300 Word Segments + Confirm Each)

When you're confident you understand what needs to be done, start outputting the design spec.

Requirements:

  • Output in segments (~200-300 words each)
  • Ask for confirmation at the end of each segment: e.g., "Does this look good?"
  • Design should at least cover:
    • Architecture and module boundaries
    • Core data flow (input → processing → output)
    • Error handling and edge cases
    • Testing and validation strategy (minimum viable set)

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 77dbfd818443

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workflow-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Heyvhuang/ship-faster (339 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 853 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 2026-08-30.

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