ultra-brainstorming

ultra-brainstorming is a skill for Codex from keithhegit/ultra-orchestration. It costs 74 tokens per session (468 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A discovery workflow for turning an unclear or creative coding request into an agreed design before implementation. It explores the project, clarifies open questions, compares approaches, and records the approved plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning or building ambiguous, multi-file, or user-facing changes. It produces problem framing, non-goals, success criteria, constraints, and a proposed flow or architecture.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of coding the wrong thing or overlooking architecture and user-behavior concerns. It also limits scope before work spreads across multiple files or systems.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it before planning or building ambiguous, multi-file, or user-facing changes. It produces problem framing, non-goals, success criteria, constraints, and a proposed flow or architecture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/keithhegit/ultra-orchestration/ultra-brainstorming
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 keithhegit/ultra-orchestration --skill ultra-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keithhegit/ultra-orchestration

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 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 $0.00074 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8772b6a4a66c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ultra-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 9d 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-vnext/ultra-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Ultra Brainstorming

Use this skill to create a design-quality front end before planning or coding. This is the main vNext upgrade inspired by obra/superpowers.

Hard Gate

Do not move to planning or implementation until you have:

  1. explored the project context
  2. clarified ambiguities one question at a time when needed
  3. proposed 2-3 approaches with tradeoffs
  4. presented a recommended design
  5. received explicit approval or resolved objections

If the task is truly tiny, compress the design. Do not skip it.

Workflow

  1. Explore the codebase, docs, recent diffs, and any existing specs.
  2. Assess whether the request is one bounded change or several independent subsystems. Decompose if needed.
  3. Ask one clarifying question at a time. Prefer multiple choice when useful.
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches with your recommendation first.
  5. Present the design in sections sized to the complexity.
  6. Write the approved spec artifact.
  7. Self-review for ambiguity, contradiction, and hidden scope creep.
  8. Hand off to ultra-planning.

Preferred Outputs

At minimum produce:

  • problem framing
  • non-goals
  • success criteria
  • constraints
  • proposed architecture or flow
  • testing or verification intent
  • open decisions or assumptions

If the repo uses OpenSpec, write into proposal.md, design.md, and tasks.md under the relevant openspec/changes/<change-id>/ directory.

Quality Bar

  • surface ambiguity instead of silently picking an interpretation
  • prefer the simplest design that satisfies the request
  • avoid speculative abstractions
  • explicitly call out acceptance criteria that downstream planning will need

Read brainstorming-flow and then rely on ultra-vnext-core for the shared contracts.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 8772b6a4a66c

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ultra-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository keithhegit/ultra-orchestration (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.