brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joris887/exosuit. It costs 19 tokens per session (2,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured design discussion for turning a complex idea into a clear implementation plan and smaller work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exploring product ideas, comparing possible approaches, identifying risks, and preparing an approved design for story breakdown.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the problem, constraints, existing code, risks, and must-have requirements before development begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the exosuit plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

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/joris887/exosuit/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add joris887/exosuit --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joris887/exosuit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install exosuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks.

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 brainstorm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joris887/exosuit/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/joris887/exosuit/brainstorm)
Your own site
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,572 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 $0.00019 $0.02572
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01286
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00257

Measured 5d ago against content hash 04ea062cd46f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

.claude/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


brainstorm

Skill metrics: Emit a start event to the activity log:

echo "{\"type\":\"skill\",\"event\":\"start\",\"skill\":\"brainstorm\",\"ts\":\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\"}" >> docs/sessions/.activity-log.jsonl

Brainstorming: $ARGUMENTS

Plan Mode (Optional)

For complex or high-stakes brainstorms, consider using Plan Mode for Phases 1-4. This adds an extra layer of safety by preventing premature implementation during design exploration.

When to use: The idea is architecturally significant, affects multiple systems, or the user explicitly requests a careful exploration.

How: Enter Plan Mode before Phase 1. Remain in Plan Mode through Phase 4 (risk identification). Exit Plan Mode before Phase 5 (design presentation) so you can interact with the user for approval.

1. Explore the Problem Space

Understand the idea deeply before proposing solutions:

  • What problem does this solve? Who benefits?
  • What are the constraints (technical, business, time)?
  • What similar functionality already exists in the codebase?
  • What are the non-negotiable requirements vs nice-to-haves?

Product requirements context: Read docs/reference/PRD_SUMMARY.md if it exists. Use Section 3 (success criteria) as evaluation criteria for approaches in Phase 3. Use Section 7 (scope boundaries) to ensure no approach violates stated non-goals or implementation boundaries. Use Section 6 (NFRs) as constraints — e.g., an approach that can't meet the performance or accessibility thresholds is disqualified.

Persona context: Read docs/context/personas.md if it exists. Note each persona's goals, evaluation criteria, and failure scenarios — these inform approach scoring in Phase 3.

Ask clarifying questions if the idea is vague. Do NOT proceed with assumptions.

2. Research the Codebase

Investigate relevant existing code:

  • Existing patterns and conventions that a solution must follow
  • If docs/context/system-patterns.md exists and is populated, load it. In Phase 3, score each approach's Pattern Fit: does it follow or diverge from established implementation patterns, error handling strategy, and testing conventions? Approaches that align are lower-risk. Approaches introducing new patterns must justify the divergence and note which sections of system-patterns.md would need updating.
  • Related features that this idea connects to
  • Architecture constraints from docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md
  • Ground rules from docs/reference/GROUND_RULES.md (if exists) — MUST rules are hard constraints on any proposed approach
  • Technology limitations or capabilities

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 220 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 04ea062cd46f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,572 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 2026-08-31.

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