brainstorming

A planning skill for turning a software idea into a clear design and specification through a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new feature, component, behavior change, or other creative software work.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear requirements before implementation and checks the existing codebase for related patterns. It requires user approval of the design before building.

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/hitmandark07/neatcodeai/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add HITMANdark07/neatcodeai --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HITMANdark07/neatcodeai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,828 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 $0.00037 $0.01828
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00183

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee8e0a492be6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

packages/cli/templates/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.

Graph-aware preface

Before asking any clarifying question, route the idea through the graph.

This skill calls the query_graph MCP tool. The reason: design conversations should start from real precedent in the codebase, not abstract intuition. If the user says "let me add a thing that does X," the codebase very likely already does something close to X — and the design should either follow that pattern or explicitly diverge from it with a stated reason.

Procedure:

  1. Pull the noun phrases out of the user's request (subject, verb, target).

  2. Call query_graph for each phrase. Capture the top hits with file:line citations.

  3. If hits exist, surface them in a short "existing patterns" block before the first clarifying question:

    Found 3 existing patterns that look related:

    • services/billing/InvoiceProcessor (src/services/billing/invoice-processor.ext:42)
    • services/billing/PaymentReconciler (src/services/billing/payment-reconciler.ext:18)
    • lib/queue/JobRunner (src/lib/queue/job-runner.ext:9)

    Should the new component follow the same shape, or are we deliberately doing something different?

  4. If no hits, say so: "No close patterns in the graph — this is greenfield in this repo." Then proceed to clarifying questions.

The first clarifying question becomes much sharper when grounded in what already exists. Skip this step only if the request is purely a configuration tweak with no code surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 2d ago First seen · 140 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ee8e0a492be6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository HITMANdark07/neatcodeai (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,828 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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