automation-brainstorm

automation-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins. It costs 93 tokens per session (4,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive advisor for designing automation workflows in Power Automate, n8n, Make, Zapier, and similar platforms. It asks about triggers, actions, data flow, and error handling, then produces an implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
For planning workflows that move information between services, choosing triggers and actions, checking failure cases, and preparing a build plan.
Why use it?
It helps turn an automation idea into a concrete design before you build it, including likely issues and platform-specific practices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the automation-helper plugin — 6 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit For planning workflows that move information between services, choosing triggers and actions, checking failure cases, and preparing a build plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/macroman5/automationhelper_plugins/automation-brainstorm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins --skill automation-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install automation-helper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,113 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 $0.00093 $0.04113
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02056
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00823
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00411

Measured 9d ago against content hash 523106653e70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automation-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 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.

.claude/skills/automation-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 648 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 648 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automation Brainstorm

Interactive workflow design advisor that helps plan and architect automation workflows through guided conversations.

Supported Platforms

  • Power Automate (Microsoft)
  • n8n (Open-source)
  • Make (formerly Integromat)
  • Zapier
  • Other JSON-based workflow platforms

Purpose

This skill provides expert guidance for planning automation workflows by:

  1. Understanding user requirements through interactive questions
  2. Recommending triggers, actions, and data flow patterns
  3. Researching platform-specific best practices
  4. Identifying potential issues early
  5. Generating detailed implementation plan for automation-build-flow

When This Skill Activates

Automatically activates when user:

  • Mentions creating/building a new workflow: "I want to create a flow that..."
  • Asks for ideas/advice: "What's the best way to automate..."
  • Describes requirements without complete design: "I need to sync data between..."
  • Requests planning help: "Help me design a workflow for..."
  • Keywords: "create flow", "build automation", "design workflow", "need ideas"

Does NOT activate when:

  • User has complete plan and wants to build (use automation-build-flow)
  • User has error and needs debugging (use automation-debugger)
  • User wants to validate existing flow (use automation-validator)

Core Workflow

Phase 1: Platform & Context Discovery

CRITICAL: Always determine the platform first!

  1. Check if Platform Specified

    • Look for platform mention in user message
    • Power Automate, n8n, Make, Zapier, etc.
  2. Ask for Platform if Missing

    Use AskUserQuestion tool:
    
    Question: "Which automation platform will you be using for this workflow?"
    Header: "Platform"
    Options:
    - Power Automate (Microsoft cloud platform with Office 365 integration)
    - n8n (Open-source, self-hosted, node-based automation)
    - Make (Visual scenario builder, formerly Integromat)
    - Zapier (SaaS automation platform, easy to use)
    - Other (Specify in custom response)
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 648 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. 9d ago First seen · 648 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 523106653e70

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automation-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository MacroMan5/AutomationHelper_plugins (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 4,113 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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