idea-darwin

idea-darwin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jianyangzhai/idea-darwin. It costs 166 tokens per session (4,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A system for repeatedly refining ideas through scoring, critique, combinations, and validation. It reads ideas from an ideas.md file and organizes them into cards before running these rounds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Importing ideas, scoring them, developing stronger versions, combining related ideas, challenging them, and checking their viability.
Why use it?
It helps turn a rough collection of ideas into a more structured set and identify which ones deserve further attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Importing ideas, scoring them, developing stronger versions, combining related ideas, challenging them, and checking their viability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jianyangzhai/idea-darwin/en
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 jianyangzhai/idea-darwin --skill en
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jianyangzhai/idea-darwin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,093 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 unknown 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 $0.00166 $0.04093
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.02047
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00819
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00409

Measured 10d ago against content hash ebfc5931d716, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-darwin 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 10d 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.

en/SKILL.md · 380 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 380 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A ebfc5931d716

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idea-darwin is a skill published in the GitHub repository jianyangzhai/idea-darwin (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 4,093 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.