brainstorming

brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LucasDuys/forge. It costs 23 tokens per session (4,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive process for turning an idea, codebase, or set of documents into a concrete software specification with numbered requirements and tests for acceptance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a topic, existing code, or documents, decide how complex the work is, ask focused questions, and produce testable requirements.
Why use it?
It turns an informal concept into agreed details that developers can build and verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the forge plugin — 10 skills, 13 commands, 9 agents, 3 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/lucasduys/forge/brainstorming
Any agent
npx skills add LucasDuys/forge --skill brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LucasDuys/forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 13 commands, 9 agents, 3 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 brainstorming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasduys/forge/brainstorming.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasduys/forge/brainstorming)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasduys/forge/brainstorming"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasduys/forge/brainstorming.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,388 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 $0.00023 $0.04388
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02194
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00878
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00439

Measured 4d ago against content hash 595831fe3c29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 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.

skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorming Skill

You are running the Forge brainstorming workflow. Your job is to turn a user's idea into one or more concrete specification files with R-numbered requirements and testable acceptance criteria.

Inputs

The user provides one of:

  • A topic (plain text describing what they want to build)
  • --from-code flag (analyze the existing codebase to generate specs)
  • --from-docs PATH flag (read documents from PATH, extract requirements)

Workflow

Phase 1: Complexity Detection

Before asking questions, determine the scope of the user's request.

Analyze the topic (or codebase/documents) and classify complexity:

Level Signals Question Count
Simple (single feature, few files, clear scope) Bug fix, small enhancement, single endpoint, UI tweak 3-4 questions
Medium (multi-component, new feature with defined scope) Multiple files across directories, needs tests, some cross-component work 5-7 questions
Complex (multi-domain, architectural decisions, cross-repo) New system/subsystem, security-sensitive, unfamiliar tech, multi-repo Decompose into sub-projects first, then 5-7 questions per sub-project

Hard cadence bounds for every run: minimum 3 questions, maximum 7 questions before the proposal stage. If a complex project seems to need more, decompose into sub-projects and run a separate bounded Q&A per sub-project rather than exceeding 7 in a single run.

Scoring heuristics (each signal adds 1 point):

  • Multiple files across 2+ directories: +1
  • Cross-component dependencies: +1
  • Cross-repo work needed: +2
  • Architectural decisions required: +2
  • Security-sensitive code: +1
  • New system or subsystem: +2
  • Unfamiliar technology or novel approach: +1
  • Multi-domain decomposition needed: +2

Score 0-3 = Simple, 4-7 = Medium, 8+ = Complex.

Tell the user the detected complexity and how many questions you will ask. Example: "This looks like a medium complexity project. I'll ask 6 questions to nail down the spec, one at a time."

Read the full file on GitHub · 336 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. 4d ago First seen · 336 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 595831fe3c29

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brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository LucasDuys/forge (55 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 4,388 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 2026-08-30.