brainstorm-all

brainstorm-all is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lykhoyda/ask-llm. It costs 56 tokens per session (527 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A brainstorming skill that asks several external AI providers for ideas after the current model forms its own view, then combines the responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want broad input on a topic, followed by a synthesis that separates confirmed information from guesses.
Why use it?
It helps compare different AI perspectives and makes unavailable providers visible instead of silently leaving them out.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ask-llm plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want broad input on a topic, followed by a synthesis that separates confirmed information from guesses.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Lykhoyda/ask-llm
Claude Code
/plugin install 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.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 527 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 $0.00056 $0.00527
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2bd1a47358b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainstorm-all 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 8d 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-all/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Portable contract

Apply the brainstorm contract with all five external providers: Gemini, Codex, Grok, Ollama, and Antigravity. The current host model forms its independent view first; unavailable providers are reported, not silently omitted; synthesis distinguishes verified evidence from inference.

Host adapters

Pi adapter

Follow /skill:brainstorm semantics with ask-multi providers gemini,codex,grok,ollama,antigravity, after the current Pi host model has committed its independent view.

Claude Code adapter

The existing detailed workflow below is the Claude Code adapter. Its Agent, MCP, hook, CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT, and AskUserQuestion mechanics apply only on Claude Code; they do not override the Pi adapter above.

Multi-LLM Brainstorm (All Providers)

Consult all available external LLM providers (Gemini, Codex, Grok, Ollama, Antigravity) simultaneously while Claude Opus performs its own independent research on the topic, then synthesize perspectives from all six participants.

Instructions

  1. Determine the brainstorm topic:

    • If the user provided a topic directly, use it
    • If the context is about code changes, gather the relevant diff with git diff and git diff --cached
    • If the context is a design/plan, gather the relevant documentation or conversation context
  2. If no topic is clear, ask the user what they'd like to brainstorm about.

  3. Launch the brainstorm-coordinator agent with the topic, external providers set to gemini,codex,grok,ollama,antigravity, and any gathered context. The coordinator will:

    • Run its own Claude Opus research phase in parallel with the external dispatches (Phase 3B — reads actual files, traces code, uses WebFetch/WebSearch on referenced external docs)
    • Dispatch the topic to the five external providers in parallel (Phase 3A)
    • Synthesize all findings with Claude's verified findings weighted higher than inferred ones

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 2bd1a47358b6

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brainstorm-all is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lykhoyda/ask-llm (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 527 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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