brainstorm

brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lykhoyda/ask-llm. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming workflow that asks a selected panel of AI models for independent views on a topic and combines their answers. It can use participants such as Codex and Antigravity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /brainstorm to explore a design, decision, or open question with multiple model participants and a synthesized result.
Why use it?
It helps compare different suggestions, disagreements, and unique ideas instead of relying on one response.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ask-llm plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/lykhoyda/ask-llm/brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add Lykhoyda/ask-llm --skill brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lykhoyda/ask-llm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ask-llm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 brainstorm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lykhoyda/ask-llm/brainstorm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lykhoyda/ask-llm/brainstorm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lykhoyda/ask-llm/brainstorm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lykhoyda/ask-llm/brainstorm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,067 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 $0.00059 $0.02067
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00207

Measured 5d ago against content hash da806af2b117, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

packages/claude-plugin/skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Portable contract

For the standard workflow, the current host model records an independent analysis before seeing external answers, then sends the same bounded topic and Context Brief concurrently to the selected providers. For the exact Grok + GPT-5.6 Sol workflow, the host is a non-voting evidence verifier/synthesizer: the brainstorming panel has exactly those two requested participants. Cross-check source where possible and synthesize consensus, unique insights, contradictions, rejected false positives, failures, and confidence. Keep provider, harness, requested model ID, independently observed served model ID, and Cursor's reported display label separate. Only direct xAI API / Grok CLI routes can report a served ID, and only when the provider/CLI payload actually carries one; a disclosed same-product alias/snapshot resolution (for example grok-4.6 or grok-4-latest served as a dated grok-4-<snapshot>) stays eligible, while a different model is a mismatch and ineligible. A direct route whose payload omits the model stays selected-only. Cursor Agent and Codex CLI echo the requested ID, so that attribution is selected-only and unverifiable—never call a requested or selected ID the actual model. Never select Cursor Auto, infer a requested ID from a display label, silently change a model, or pivot to another harness/provider.

Host adapters

Pi adapter

The current Pi host model completes its independent evidence memo first. Standard provider lists use native ask-multi. A routed participant uses the matching native tool instead: provider@cursor-agent:model calls ask-cursor-agent with separate provider and exact model; direct Grok calls ask-grok with the explicit harness and exact model. A participant list mixing routed provider@harness:exact-model-id entries with bare provider names is refused before any tool call; nothing is dispatched or substituted. For the exact Grok + Sol panel, issue only these two consultations (concurrently when the host supports it):

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A da806af2b117

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lykhoyda/ask-llm (17 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,067 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 2026-08-30.

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