brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from hnikoloski/imlazy. It costs 36 tokens per session (574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design process for large or unclear software tasks. It asks one question at a time, compares possible approaches, writes a specification, and passes it to a planning step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new subsystems, multi-part projects, architecture decisions, or other tasks where requirements and scope need to be clarified.
Why use it?
It turns a vague idea into an agreed technical plan before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the imlazy plugin — 26 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for new subsystems, multi-part projects, architecture decisions, or other tasks where requirements and scope need to be clarified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hnikoloski/imlazy/imlazy-brainstorm
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 hnikoloski/imlazy --skill imlazy-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hnikoloski/imlazy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install imlazy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for brainstorming

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for brainstorming

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 574 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 $0.00036 $0.00574
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 11d ago against content hash 20de56f82f10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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/imlazy-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

brainstorming

When to use

The router invokes this skill ONLY for Heavy-tier tasks (multi-component, unclear scope, new subsystem, or user explicitly requests design/plan/architecture).

For Standard or Quick tier, skip brainstorming entirely — go straight to Skill(imlazy-planning) in light mode or inline execution.

This skill's job: produce a spec doc that Skill(imlazy-planning) can turn into an implementation plan.

Process

  1. Explore project context — read existing files, check recent commits before asking any questions.
  2. Ask clarifying questions one at a time. Prefer multiple-choice. One question per message. Focus on: purpose, constraints, success criteria.
  3. Assess scope first. If the request describes multiple independent subsystems, flag this and help the user decompose into sub-projects before proceeding. Each sub-project gets its own spec → plan → implementation cycle.
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches with tradeoffs and your recommendation. Lead with the recommended option.
  5. Present the design in sections. Get user approval section by section. Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing.
  6. Write the spec to docs/imlazy/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md. Self-review for placeholders, contradictions, scope, and ambiguity. Fix inline.
  7. Ask the user to review the spec before proceeding.
  8. Hand off to Skill(imlazy-planning) in full mode. Do not invoke any other skill.

Key principles

  • One question at a time. Multiple-choice preferred over open-ended.
  • YAGNI ruthlessly — cut unrequested features from the design.
  • Always propose 2-3 approaches before settling.
  • Explore the existing codebase before proposing changes. Follow existing patterns. Targeted improvements to broken code you are touching are fine; unrelated refactoring is not.
  • Be flexible — go back and clarify when something does not make sense.

Spec self-review checklist

Before asking the user to review, check:

  1. Placeholder scan — any TBD/TODO/incomplete sections?
  2. Internal consistency — do sections contradict each other?
  3. Scope check — focused enough for one implementation plan?
  4. Ambiguity check — can any requirement be interpreted two ways?

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 11d ago First seen · 48 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 20de56f82f10

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository hnikoloski/imlazy (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 574 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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