ideate

ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joris887/exosuit. It costs 19 tokens per session (4,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow that turns a broad idea or requirement into smaller backlog stories. A backlog is the project's ordered list of work that may be done later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down a feature or idea into development stories and add them to the project's backlog.
Why use it?
It gives an unstructured idea a form that can be estimated, discussed, and scheduled. It also checks the project's backlog files and notes when a sprint is already in progress.

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/ideate
Any agent
npx skills add joris887/exosuit --skill ideate
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 ideate

README.md
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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 4,940 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 $0.04940
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02470
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00988
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00494

Measured 4d ago against content hash b00b73840842, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideate 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 4d 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/ideate/SKILL.md · 415 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 415 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


ideate

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

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

Transforming idea into backlog stories: $ARGUMENTS

Step 0: Check Discovery State

Phase 0: Validate Prerequisites

Before starting, verify:

  • docs/reference/backlog/ directory exists (create if missing)
  • docs/reference/BACKLOG_INDEX.md is readable
  • No conflicting ideation in progress (check for uncommitted backlog changes)

If prerequisites fail, inform the user and stop — don't consume context on doomed work.

Sprint Scope Awareness

Check if a sprint is currently active (branch matches sprint-* or docs/progress.md shows an in-progress sprint). If so, display a notice:

Sprint [N] is in progress (goal: "[sprint goal]"). New stories will be added to the backlog, not the current sprint. Adding stories to a running sprint increases sprint churn — target is <20%.

This is informational, not blocking. The user may legitimately need to ideate during a sprint. But it prevents accidental scope creep where new stories get silently mixed into active sprint work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 415 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 415 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A b00b73840842

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 4,940 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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