brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kimsanguine/hplan. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for deciding whether a product or feature idea is worth building, then shaping it into an initial design. It produces a draft design document, a list of assumptions, and early problem statements for later product planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a new product, feature, or coding-agent idea, compare possible approaches through questions, and prepare an initial product-requirements draft for the next planning stage.
Why use it?
It helps avoid designing a product before checking whether the problem matters. It also makes uncertain assumptions visible before detailed planning or implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hplan plugin — 8 skills, 11 commands, 4 agents 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/kimsanguine/hplan/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add kimsanguine/hplan --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimsanguine/hplan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hplan, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 11 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,208 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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.02208
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00221

Measured 5d ago against content hash 08a99b1ed724, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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.

hplan/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/hplan:brainstorm — Validated Brainstorming

Running for: $ARGUMENTS

Core Goal

superpowers:brainstorming과 달리 Phase 0 Worth-Building Check를 먼저 실행해 "만들어야 하는가"를 확인한 뒤 설계 대화를 시작한다.

출력이 설계 문서 1개가 아니라 설계 문서 + Signal Gate Bootstrap 3개 artifact다.

  • Phase 0: Worth-Building Check — 3문 PROCEED/WARN 판정
  • Phase 1: 대화형 설계 — 1문 1답, 2-3 접근 방식 비교
  • Phase 2: Signal Gate Bootstrap — harness/pain.md 씨앗 + 가정 목록 + PRD §1 초안

Trigger Gate

Use This Skill When

  • 새 제품·기능·에이전트 아이디어가 있고 설계 전에 검증이 필요할 때
  • discover/opp-tree 이전에 빠른 worth-building check가 필요할 때
  • deliver/prd 스킬 작성 전 §1 ICP 초안과 §13 가설 씨앗을 미리 준비하고 싶을 때

Route to Other Skills When

  • Phase 0에서 PROCEED → 이 스킬의 Phase 1-2 계속
  • Phase 2 완료 후 → deliver/prd 스킬로 handoff
  • Phase 0에서 WARN이고 깊은 증거 수집 필요 → discover/opp-tree + discover/assumptions
  • 이미 ICP와 문제가 명확히 정의됨 → deliver/prd 직접 시작

Boundary Checks

  • Phase 0의 3문은 차단이 아닌 방향 안내다. WARN = "지금 당장 discover 먼저 권장"이지 STOP이 아님
  • Phase 2 출력물은 AI 생성 초안이다. 실제 Signal Gate 증거가 아님 — 실제 인터뷰·관찰로 보강 필요
  • 이 스킬은 설계까지만. 구현 시작 판단은 harness-build를 통해서.

Instructions

You are running /hplan:brainstorm for: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 0 — Worth-Building Check

superpowers에 없는 단계. 3문 이하의 질문으로 "만들 가치가 있는가"를 빠르게 확인한다.

아래 3개 질문을 한 번에 하나씩 대화형으로 묻는다:

Q1: "이 문제를 경험한 실제 사람이 특정되나요? (이름·역할·상황을 구체적으로)"

  • 구체적 답변 예시: "B2B SaaS CFO, 매주 월요일 오전 수동으로 부서별 지출 분류"
  • 추상적 답변 예시: "20-50대 직장인", "바쁜 사람들"

Q2: "지금 그들이 쓰는 workaround(임시 해결책)가 있나요?"

  • workaround가 있으면 문제가 실재한다는 신호
  • workaround 없음 = 문제가 아직 felt pain이 아닐 수 있음

Q3: "이것이 해결되면 그들의 행동이 구체적으로 어떻게 바뀌나요?"

  • 행동 변화가 명확하면 JTBD(Jobs-to-be-Done)가 있다는 신호

판정:

  • 3문 모두 구체적 답변 → PROCEED: "충분한 신호가 있습니다. Phase 1 설계 대화로 이동합니다."
  • 1-2문 답변이 추상적 → WARN: "증거가 약합니다. Phase 1을 계속하되, 설계 후 discover/opp-tree로 보강을 권장합니다." (계속 진행)
  • 3문 모두 추상적 → WARN(강): "증거가 매우 약합니다. discover/opp-tree를 먼저 실행해 기회를 탐색하는 것을 강력히 권장합니다." (진행 여부 사용자 선택)

Phase 1 — 설계 대화

superpowers:brainstorming의 Phase 1과 동일한 구조. 1문 1답으로 설계를 구체화한다.

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

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 · 229 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 08a99b1ed724

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brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository kimsanguine/hplan (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,208 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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