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.
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill brainstorminggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/CielWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/brainstorming)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/brainstorming/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/brainstorming.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00017 | $0.00619 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00309 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00124 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00062 |
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 7d 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.
What it actually says
CIEL ADAPTATION: Brainstorming (The Creative Layer)
This skill serves as CIEL's "Creative Layer," enforcing a strict design-before-action mandate. It ensures that intent is fully understood and architectural trade-offs are weighed before a single line of code is written.
Integration Context
Adapted from ~/.agents/skills/brainstorming/. This skill is the primary entry point for all non-trivial tasks. It feeds directly into the Council of Five for architectural deliberation and writing-plans for execution.
The Design-Before-Action Mandate
Orchestration Logic
1. Context Mining
Before asking the first question, CIEL must use grep_search and mempalace-rs to understand the existing project DNA (conventions, patterns, prior ADRs).
2. The Socratic Loop
Ask clarifying questions one at a time. Use multiple-choice options to reduce user friction while maintaining precision.
3. Council Consultation
Once 2-3 approaches are formulated, CIEL must internally consult the Council of Five (Coherence, Capability, Safety, Efficiency, Evolution) to weight the trade-offs before presenting them to the user.
4. Spec Persistence
Approved designs must be written to docs/ciel/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md and indexed in MemPalace as a ProposedDesign node.
5. Transition
The terminal state of this skill is the invocation of writing-plans. No implementation occurs here.
Original Process Flow and Visual Companion logic preserved at source.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 69 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 01e8c81abc5c
brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 619 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 2026-09-03.
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